Reference
X154/1/23
Title
Bound diary of a young man [unnamed] who appears to be from Hitchin [Hertfordshire] and who worked for some time in North London (Finsbury Park and Islington being noted as placed frequented); the main topics are:
- business [unspecified but involving a shop in which he kept the books, an engineering department, pattern making and work such as dismantling a mill wheel; the business obviously had branches both in Hitchin and London];
- health (toothache for example);
- holidays;
- family matters;
- playing cricket;
- his spiritual health;
- giving lessons at Sunday School and attending [Methodist?] chapel;
- being in the local Fire Brigade;
- meetings with friends and associates;
- railway crash at Arlesey in 1876
Date free text
Jul 1876 - Jun 1878
Production date
From: 1876 To: 1878
Level of description
item