Sheleen
28-05-2005, 05:34 AM
Clara and John lived in Frederick Street - they bought their baby son home to their house, and sometime in the late 1800's, they decided to become Salvationists... they joined the Salvation Army, and their son (though much older now) decided that the Sally Army was right for him too.
I look through the Directory of Cities (Vol 1) and I can see that Clara probably caught the omnibus at New Road to go to the cemetery - maybe she laid flowers on her mums grave there? She probably bought her groceries from Napthalie Abbot the nearest shopkeeper, and had her chimney swept by Mr Jupp (who lived only two doors away). John had a choice of fifteen news sheets printed locally - entertainment, fashion and news in many different newspapers... I'm guessing he stuck to a paper like the Southern Weekly News published once a week - or their several-times-a-day publication, the Argus.
Clara and John lived a few doors down from a tailor, a carpet beater ... and a beer retailer. Where frederick Street crosses North street, there is a public house...the Blue Posts Inn - and on the other side of the road, there's another Beer house! Further along Frederick Street, there's a shopkeeper, a bootmaker... then the Crown and Thistle public house.
Three bubs and a beermaker... poor John must have been drooling!
You see, Salvationists are a sober bunch... they aren't allowed to drink alcohol.
Can you imagine... John off for a morning walk... saying hello to Annie Leonard, a local shopkeeper... getting his weekly paper - and then NOT going to the many pubs nearby to quench his thirst and have a chat with his mates?
No laughing with Chas Morley the local decorator and T.B West the plumber - making jokes about priest-holes to William Priest, the wardrobe maker down the street.
How hard it must have been in those early years of the Sally Army... for those who wanted to be part of it were ridiculed and even spat upon and punched in the street as they preached about God and how they saw Him.
I imagine John sometimes...Standing outside the Blue Posts Inn, waiting for his neighbours to come outside... wondering if they would still accept him as a friend and neighbour... or just a nuisance.
I look through the Directory of Cities (Vol 1) and I can see that Clara probably caught the omnibus at New Road to go to the cemetery - maybe she laid flowers on her mums grave there? She probably bought her groceries from Napthalie Abbot the nearest shopkeeper, and had her chimney swept by Mr Jupp (who lived only two doors away). John had a choice of fifteen news sheets printed locally - entertainment, fashion and news in many different newspapers... I'm guessing he stuck to a paper like the Southern Weekly News published once a week - or their several-times-a-day publication, the Argus.
Clara and John lived a few doors down from a tailor, a carpet beater ... and a beer retailer. Where frederick Street crosses North street, there is a public house...the Blue Posts Inn - and on the other side of the road, there's another Beer house! Further along Frederick Street, there's a shopkeeper, a bootmaker... then the Crown and Thistle public house.
Three bubs and a beermaker... poor John must have been drooling!
You see, Salvationists are a sober bunch... they aren't allowed to drink alcohol.
Can you imagine... John off for a morning walk... saying hello to Annie Leonard, a local shopkeeper... getting his weekly paper - and then NOT going to the many pubs nearby to quench his thirst and have a chat with his mates?
No laughing with Chas Morley the local decorator and T.B West the plumber - making jokes about priest-holes to William Priest, the wardrobe maker down the street.
How hard it must have been in those early years of the Sally Army... for those who wanted to be part of it were ridiculed and even spat upon and punched in the street as they preached about God and how they saw Him.
I imagine John sometimes...Standing outside the Blue Posts Inn, waiting for his neighbours to come outside... wondering if they would still accept him as a friend and neighbour... or just a nuisance.