Last October I added a page to the main site about the
Jackson family of butchers from Buntingford based on some old invoices, as an example of how interesting ephemera can be when it has survived (which rarely happens).
Alison recently wrote to tell me that the invoices (and much more beside) had all been kept by a Jeffery Smith, of Buntingford and I have added details to the
Jackson page.
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Alison also drew my attention to the Facebook site on which she is posting news items from the
Buntingford and North East Herts Gazette from 1923 to 1940. She says:
Not only does it give a fascinating insight into how the town was run with
accounts of how the various prominent local citizens (who often served on half a
dozen or more committees) gave selflessly of their time to serve on various
committees like the Poor Union, the Rural District Council, the various church
councils, the burial ground committee, assorted fundraising committees
particularly for the Royston Hospital, the Nursing Fund and so on, but it also
gives details of funerals and who attended (most useful
for genealogical research) sports results, types of entertainment,
advertisements for local businesses, Petty Sessions. It takes me some time to do
the uploading because I read every word! But it paints an intimate picture of
life in the town at that time.
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