18th Century Diary

Author: sybil

  • Millie & Andy make BBC news for school

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    https://youtube.com/watch?v=3ly9_hkjeps

  • ERIC JEWESBURY eulogy

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    Like many people here today I have known Eric all my life, and it is difficult to imagine the world without him. He was a man who had a real gift for friendship, and gave generously of himself to his friends. That makes it difficult for anyone person to say what he was to all…

  • Banking Ombudsman FORMAL RECOMMENDATION on passbook

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    bank ombudsman recommendation PDF version I recommend that the complaint by MRS. S. E. COADY (“Complainant”) against MIDLAND BANK PLC (“the Bank”) be withdrawn without the payment of any money or the provision of any valuable consideration by the Bank to the Complainant. Following the issue of an Assessment on 11th October 1993, I have…

  • Laura

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  • Childbirth

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    Childbirth In the 21st Century childbirth is safe and uncomplicated in the majority of cases, medical care is good so that early problems are mostly overcome .If the mother cannot breast-feed good substitute dried milk is available. In the 18th Century parents could have no confidence that their children could be born safely and thrive.…

  • Chocolate in the 18th Century

    Chocolate in the 18th Century

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    Introduction of Chocolate to London The first printed evidence we have of Chocolate being used in London is in the notice in the Public Advertiser in 1657: In Bishopsgate St is an excellent West India drink called chocolate to be sold, where you may have it ready at any time, and also unmade at reasonable…

  • Smuggling and Customs Officers

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    Smuggling is a crime with an unusual status. Although most crimes are abhorred by the middle classes smuggling was the exception which for reasons of economy and presumably of enjoying the thrill of taking a risk was regarded by them as the exception to their usual stance of not supporting illegal activities. The temptation was…

  • 7 Buildings-

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    The architect’s problems in dealing with clients impossible demands are illustrated in this extract. Imagine the size of the inscription necessary to make such large letters. Impossible to achieve while keeping the correct proportions of the pillar. We think of vandalism as a 20th century phenomenon. So it is on a massive and near universal…

  • Activities and inventions

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    From the top to the bottom of society people were very much more active in the 18th Century than in the late 2Oth.At the bottom agricultural labourers aided by horses did by hand ploughing, sowing seeds and harvesting, their teenage children were mostly employed as servants, their wives worked most of the hours of the…

  • Visit to 107

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  • Sybil’s Dodgy Dossier

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    Thomas Coady
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    Correspondence between number 10, FCO and MP: Dodgy Dossier Approximate text (from OCR scan): JIM DOWD MP Lewisham West Mrs Sybil Coady 111 London Road Forest Hill LONDON SE233XW HOUSE OF COMMONS LONDON SWIA OAA 02072194617 020 7219 2686 (Fax) 26 March 2002 Thank you for your recent letter regarding the Prime Minister’s approach to…

  • The Army

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    Few aspects of modern life are more different than the conditions endured by soldiers in the 18th century army. Our soldiers today still fight, endure wounds, amputations and death but their conditions of service are so much better that they would be astonished if they read the accounts left by their ancestors who fought in…