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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D1527/1
TitleWilliam Spray's memoirs, “Bolsover and district over 80 years ago as I have known it”
Date1973-1974
DescriptionSubjects covered, by page:
(part 1, front endpaper ) Bolsover Parish Council ;
(part 1, page 1 ) Church of England School ;
(part 1, page 2 ) Christening party at Welbeck Abbey for Duke of Portland’s son ;
(part 1, page 3 ) Colliery School (1894); work as Co-op grocer's boy ;
(part 1, page 4ff ) Bolsover town perambulation ;
(part 1, page 15-16 ) building of Arkwright and Bolsover railway tunnels ;
(part 1, page 17 ) building casualties ;
(part 1, page 18 ) sanitation; water supply ;
(part 1, page 19ff ) Carr Vale perambulation ;
(part 1, page 23 ) Carr Vale Working Men’s Club ;
(part 1, page 24 ) Carr Vale British Legion ;
(part 1, page 29ff ) Cresswell Model Village; Hillstown ;
(part 2, Page 1 ) joined army (1901) ;
(part 2, page 2 ) Aldershot Life ;
(part 2, page 3 ) Bolsover Pit ;
(part 2, page 4 ) joined Navy ;
(part 2, page 5ff ) served on Canopus; foreign voyages ;
(part 2, page 7ff ) the Good Hope ;
(part 2, page 9 ) Montevideo ;
(part 2, page 11 ) marriage ;
(part 2, page 12ff ) family ;
(part 2, page 14ff ) voyages; World War I ;
(part 2, page 18 ) World War II: Home Guard, A.R.P. ;
(part 2, page 19 ) family ;
(part 2, page 20 – 1 ) Norway ;
(part 2, page 21 – 2 ) Tattooing ;
(part 2, page 23 ) World War I: Navy ;
(part 2, page 26 ) boyhood: sweets; running errands ;
(part 2, page 27 ) fairs; Bolsover illuminations ;
(part 2, page 28 ) first cinematograph ;
(part 2, page 29 ) the Hebride ;
(part 2, page 34 ) recent changes in Bolsover W.S. a boy 36 90th Birthday celebrations;
(part 2, page 39-40 ) Portland christening party (cp. 12) ;
(part 2, page 41 ) changes in Bolsover (co. II 34) ;
(part 2, page 47 ) ‘Mayfly’ airship (1910) ;
(part 2, page 53 ) poor relief: beggars ;
(part 2, page 56 ) (Appendix) the WC and its invention
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorWilliam Spray of Carr Vale, Bolsover
TermFirst World War (1914-1918)
Military service
Military life
Army
Armed forces
Beggars
Vagrants
Paupers
Navy
Naval personnel
Sailors
Fairs (entertainment)
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