On This Day;
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RufusCat
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Yes!!
Two threads on this - fetches back Happy memories - poor Mick Lyons injured on the day - he never had a victory over that lot in the league ....
ON THE 5th NOVEMBER 1909
The first UK Woolworths store opened in Liverpool at 25-25a Church Street and 8 Williamson Street. Founded by Frank Winfield Woolworth, the store's opening was celebrated with a full orchestra, circus acts, and fireworks.
The first UK Woolworths store opened in Liverpool at 25-25a Church Street and 8 Williamson Street. Founded by Frank Winfield Woolworth, the store's opening was celebrated with a full orchestra, circus acts, and fireworks.
Bluerover
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I used to love Woolworths. There was one in Dun Laoghaire (where I was born) and I loved the aroma of the shop, a mix of loose sweets and chocolates.
From wiki
Woolworth finished his schooling at age 16, yet he was unfit to begin working in any legitimate store with only basic knowledge and no experience. He applied to many shops in the area, every time being rejected.
When he opened his first store, aged 27, it failed within weeks, yet he persevered. When he died of septic shock from am infected tooth in 1919 (just before his 67th birthday) he owned more than a 1000 shops and was worth over $800 billion in today's money!!
He and his wife were both Methodists so we can claim some very distant connection with Everton's founding fathers
I used to love Woolworths. There was one in Dun Laoghaire (where I was born) and I loved the aroma of the shop, a mix of loose sweets and chocolates.
From wiki
Woolworth finished his schooling at age 16, yet he was unfit to begin working in any legitimate store with only basic knowledge and no experience. He applied to many shops in the area, every time being rejected.
When he opened his first store, aged 27, it failed within weeks, yet he persevered. When he died of septic shock from am infected tooth in 1919 (just before his 67th birthday) he owned more than a 1000 shops and was worth over $800 billion in today's money!!
He and his wife were both Methodists so we can claim some very distant connection with Everton's founding fathers
….might be appropriate to post this from the lovely Nanci Griffiths, no longer with us but also a Woolworths fan;
On November 7th, 1920, in strictest secrecy, four unidentified British bodies were exhumed from temporary battlefield cemeteries at Ypres, Arras, the Asine and the Somme.
None of the soldiers who did the digging were told why.
The bodies were taken by field ambulance to GHQ at St-Pol-Sur-Ter Noise. Once there, the bodies were draped with the union flag.
Sentries were posted and Brigadier-General Wyatt and a Colonel Gell selected one body at random. The other three were reburied.
A French Honour Guard was selected and stood by the coffin overnight of the chosen soldier overnight.
On the morning of the 8th November, a specially designed coffin made of oak from the grounds of Hampton Court arrived and the Unknown Warrior was placed inside.
On top was placed a crusaders sword and a shield on which was inscribed:
"A British Warrior who fell in the GREAT WAR 1914-1918 for King and Country".
On the 9th of November, the Unknown Warrior was taken by horse-drawn carriage through Guards of Honour and the sound of tolling bells and bugle calls to the quayside.
There, he was saluted by Marechal Foche and loaded onto HMS Vernon bound for Dover. The coffin stood on the deck covered in wreaths, surrounded by the French Honour Guard.
Upon arrival at Dover, the Unknown Warrior was met with a nineteen gun salute - something that was normally only reserved for Field Marshals.
A special train had been arranged and he was then conveyed to Victoria Station, London.
He remained there overnight, and, on the morning of the 11th of November, he was finally taken to Westminster Abbey.
The idea of the unknown warrior was thought of by a Padre called David Railton who had served on the front line during the Great War the union flag he had used as an altar cloth whilst at the front, was the one that had been draped over the coffin.
It was his intention that all of the relatives of the 517,773 combatants whose bodies had not been identified could believe that the Unknown Warrior could very well be their lost husband, father, brother or son...
None of the soldiers who did the digging were told why.
The bodies were taken by field ambulance to GHQ at St-Pol-Sur-Ter Noise. Once there, the bodies were draped with the union flag.
Sentries were posted and Brigadier-General Wyatt and a Colonel Gell selected one body at random. The other three were reburied.
A French Honour Guard was selected and stood by the coffin overnight of the chosen soldier overnight.
On the morning of the 8th November, a specially designed coffin made of oak from the grounds of Hampton Court arrived and the Unknown Warrior was placed inside.
On top was placed a crusaders sword and a shield on which was inscribed:
"A British Warrior who fell in the GREAT WAR 1914-1918 for King and Country".
On the 9th of November, the Unknown Warrior was taken by horse-drawn carriage through Guards of Honour and the sound of tolling bells and bugle calls to the quayside.
There, he was saluted by Marechal Foche and loaded onto HMS Vernon bound for Dover. The coffin stood on the deck covered in wreaths, surrounded by the French Honour Guard.
Upon arrival at Dover, the Unknown Warrior was met with a nineteen gun salute - something that was normally only reserved for Field Marshals.
A special train had been arranged and he was then conveyed to Victoria Station, London.
He remained there overnight, and, on the morning of the 11th of November, he was finally taken to Westminster Abbey.
The idea of the unknown warrior was thought of by a Padre called David Railton who had served on the front line during the Great War the union flag he had used as an altar cloth whilst at the front, was the one that had been draped over the coffin.
It was his intention that all of the relatives of the 517,773 combatants whose bodies had not been identified could believe that the Unknown Warrior could very well be their lost husband, father, brother or son...
What a lovely story.
….it is amazing. I dare say with all the advances in DNA there’d be a chance to now determine the identity of that poor soldier but I suppose David Railton’s idea still remains to this day.
Let's pray that that never happens.
….looking at the life of David Railton, the army clergyman who thought of the idea of the ‘Unknown Soldier’, I notice he has links with Liverpool. Educated and ordained in the city in 1908 before taking up the curacy of Edge Hill. Between 1931-35 he was rector of St Nicholas, Liverpool.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
….born 8th Nov, 1927;
NeilMorepies
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Happy Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all those who celebrate.
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