Fragments of Brunswick's Past
Fragments of tickets, notices and bottle labels, dating back to 1884, were found discarded and crumpled under some floorboards at Brunswick House yesterday.
Perhaps the most interesting is that of a handwritten notice informing members of the Railwayman's Club of plans to form an Orchestral Society. To be directed by Mr E.H. Howell, Band Master of 2nd London Rifle Volunteers. Practice to commence Tuesday 2nd December 1884. The year, incidentally, that the first edition of The Oxford English Dicitionary was published and the corner stone of the Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.
Although of little intrinsic value, these fragments of a bygone age provide a small, yet fascinating, glimpse into the everyday lives of our Brunswick predecessors.
Perhaps the most interesting is that of a handwritten notice informing members of the Railwayman's Club of plans to form an Orchestral Society. To be directed by Mr E.H. Howell, Band Master of 2nd London Rifle Volunteers. Practice to commence Tuesday 2nd December 1884. The year, incidentally, that the first edition of The Oxford English Dicitionary was published and the corner stone of the Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.
Although of little intrinsic value, these fragments of a bygone age provide a small, yet fascinating, glimpse into the everyday lives of our Brunswick predecessors.
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