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Feby
The Revd F(?) Raven died at Swindon 28th leaving Emma's younger sister a widow with one child - a good man - who through the cross of Christ looked to the day of his death as better than that of his birth.
February 1st Grand Miscellaneous Concert
Magisterial
Newscutting for Feb 1 - '69 re (1) Stealing Holly and (2) Strange Freaks at a Wedding
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Lord H Paget at Church with Mrs Chadwick, was called out, to hear that his father was dead, what an antecedent to the coming week.
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Races, warm windy and wet.
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Races again, horse killed at the park.
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Ash Wednesday morning service by Mr Smith & Goddard so we were not deprived of any part.
Evening by Mr Newman.
Newscutting - Sunday, February 21, FOR THE BOYS HOME
Fourteen pounds collected.
22nd
First load of bricks drawn to opposite ground - from Giles' garden wall; foretaste of what to come; washed down the slum once the Reddy or eddy croft a green field, now a little Ireland of little houses, and questionable inhabitants.
Church Yard - how changed - now a town burial place (where Charles Smith told me, he remembered the time when only two vaults were railed in). Vincent's the first sarcophagus tomb-stone. Dr G Bodington intending (over his wife) the second.
March 3rd
Men pecking up and blasting away the root of the old ash tree in corner of opposite field, the growth of - who can tell - how long?
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Miss Birch died (Mrs Cull's sister) a good woman, did her duty in her generation as teacher of youth.
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Arthur Haynes, having been returned from Bethelem Hospital as uncured; was taken to Hatton.
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Mr Shaw 86 and an old inhabitant died.
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Newscutting - on the 10 inst in his 65th year GEORGE BRENTNALL forty years parish clerk of Sutton Coldfield. A great sufferer for some weeks
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Mr Packwood died "Peace to his soul"!!! The wind bloweth where it listeth .... He who had worked together so near is singular and noteworthy .......them, how many a history dies.
Newscutting - On the 14th inst at Sutton Coldfield aged 79 years, the Rev James Packwood, for more than forty years curate of that place.
Buried with his wife on the N Side of the Ch - at 20th. The Corporation attending as a last .........To an honest upright man.
Newscutting on the Institute and Reading Room - talk by Mr Cull at Moot Hall