Transcribed from the 1901 edition , email. Many thanks to Norfolk and NorwichMillennium Library, UK, for allowing their copy to be used forthis transcription.
CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD OF REMARKABLE EVENTS INTHE
NINETEENTHCENTURY
(Compiled from the files ofthe “Norfolk Chronicle”)
BY
CHARLES MACKIE
VOLUME II.
1851–1900
“It is beyond the capacity of the humanintellect to discriminate beforehand between what is valuable andwhat is valueless in the pursuit of historical research. What would we give now for newspapers and trade circularsillustrating the social habits of many bygone times andpeoples?”—The Times, May 4, 1900.
[Entered at Stationers’Hall]
1901
Printed at the Office of the “Norfolk Chronicle”Market Place Norwich
In the terms of the publishers’ announcement the twovolumes of “Norfolk Annals” were to have contained800 pages; the work has really exceeded that estimate by 255pages.
Although the period from 1851 to 1900 was marked by manyincidents of great importance in the history of Norfolk andNorwich, the record thereof in Volume II. of “NorfolkAnnals” lacks several of the features which made Volume I.acceptable to the lover of folk lore and to the student of localevents in the earlier days of the Nineteenth Century. If,however, the present volume be less interesting than Volume I.,it may yet be useful for the verification of the dates ofoccurrences regarding which the public memory is proverbiallyshortlived and unreliable.
Page 40, fourth line of fifth paragraph, for “56seconds” read “2 minutes 56seconds.”
George Cubitt, Tombland, Norwich.
H. R. Ladell, Aylsham Road, North Walsham.
Arnold H. Miller, The Guildhall, Norwich.
H. Newhouse, Bella Vista, Thorpe Road, Norwich.
Colonel H. T. S. Patteson, Beeston St. Andrew Hall.
Simms Reeve, 29, Thorpe Road, Norwich.
The Earl of Rosebery, K.G., K.T., 38, Berkley Square, London,W.
T. O. Springfield, The Rookery, Swainsthorpe.
F. Oddin Taylor, St. Ethelbert, Norwich.
Arthur Wolton, 78, Borough High Street, London, S.E.
[Note.—Marginal datesdistinguished by an asterisk are dates of publication, notof occurrence.]
2.—Died at Shipdham, Mary, widow of Mr. Henry Tash,farmer, in the hundredth year of her age.
3.—At the Norfolk Court of Quarter Sessions a report waspresented upon the expenditure of the county, into which acommittee had inquired in consequence of representations made atpublic meetings in various districts, to the effect that theratepayers were unable to control the finances. The Courtpassed a resolution affirming that the evidence given before thecommittee had tended to prove that the financial affairs of thecounty had been conducted by the Court of Quarter Sessions withproper attention to economy, with just regard to the