Michael Day
@bindonlane
Change ringer. I will mostly post about work (digital preservation, libraries) and on occasion about bellringing, the First World War, the city of Bath, and other topics
Here's my blurry (indirect) view from Bath, with my homemade cereal box viewer ...
The actual move happened in 1997, with a timetable published in the LA Record 99(3), March 1997, p118; ironically, the biggest clue should have been the great big "British Library" stamp on top of the bound volumes in Hum 2, starting in 1997!
Today incorporated a much less-energetic stroll along the river at Bathampton, to see trees chewed by beavers. Fantastic weather for it!
For #ArmisticeDay, a view of Grootebeek British Cemetery, near Ouderdom (West Flanders, Belgium), from a trip last month
Almost at the end of a short stay in Ieper; which included walks from Zonnebeke to Sint-Juliaan, and from Reninghelst to Dikkebus
I was at the Last Post Ceremony the day before, but I was passing by Zillebeke Lake yesterday at 8pm, on my way back to the station
I found a copy of the church cats book; what would be the easiest way to get it to you? I could drop it off somewhere in central London on one of my office days?
I did manage to find a few other mentions of Driver Howie in the British Newspaper Archive, including a death report in the Kilsyth Chronicle, 7 Sep 1917, and identical "in memoriam" entries in the Kilsyth Chronicle and the Kirkintilloch Gazette, 14 Sep 1917; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlec...
I'm not certain whether this helps that much with linking to the other records, but there is a "Howie, 7741, Dvr. D. A. (Glasgow)" in lists published in the Scotsman and in the Weekly Casualty List during September 1917; both via the British Newspaper Archive
This is Private Henry Augustus Riggs Day after his arrival in Ahmednagar
#onthisday in 1914, my grandfather departed Southampton for India on HMT Assaye with the 1/4th Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment; before he left, he sent a postcard of the ship to his younger brother.
My journey to work this morning involved a cable car - amongst other forms of transport