The Diary of Nathaniel Bryceson (Part 9 - Final)

[MaryA]

Thank you for the photographs, especially showing the condition of the diary, the transcribers must really have had a hard time publishing it, I'm just glad they know their efforts are appreciated.  Lucky Ruskie getting to see it first hand.

Happy Christmas to everyone.

[Ruskie]

Hello to everyone. I am safely home now and just about recovered from the shocking jet lag. I really hate flying ...

  about the image of myself   . I'm definitely not photogenic ( ) and usually go to any lengths to avoid appearing in and consequently ruining anyone's group photograph.   

I am so happy to have seen the diary. I think it was a fitting finale for me to see it.

I was invited by Mongibello to go along to visit Nathaniel's grave but sadly as well as the adverse weather in London in the days following my visit to WA, I had some family matters to attend to and unfortunately I was unable to take up his kind offer. (I'm sure this was a relief Jim, as I'm sure you didn't really fancy driving on those icy roads and trecking through that overgrown graveyard in the snow  ).

[Mongibello]

As a postscript, I took this photo the other day of the Strand Union Workhouse, the place where Granny Sheppard died.    Today it is all over the papers as it is to be pulled down and various people think it was the prototype of the workhouse in Oliver Twist as Dickens lived at No. 22 Cleveland Street.    There is a campaign to save it.
Not a very good photo - too early in the morning.

[Ruskie]

Thanks for posting this Jim. There is a petition going around to save it. I signed it ages ago not realising that it was the Strand Union Workhouse. I'll sign to save any old buildings.

[steve_gus]

That looks very much like the (now demolished) Barnet workhouse, which later became part of Barnet General Hospital.

[steve_gus]

Relevent to the Bunyan theme

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12528822


PS : Nathaniel, how soon you were forgotten

[deb usa]

hi Steve

Not forgotten ...just tucked away in the back of our minds! 

thanks for the link

deb

[Ruskie]

PS : Nathaniel, how soon you were forgotten

Not at all Steve.

I was thinking about Nathaniel today when I found the business card Mongibello gave me on my visit to Westminster Archives.

I was thinking about Nathaniel on Sunday due to a mention in our local paper of a B&B in Dean Street.

I was thinking about Nathaniel on Saturday when I remembered that I must ask my daughter to change my desktop picture to a page of Nathaniel's diary - from a photo I took, using her camera, while at Westminster Archives.

I have spent weeks transcribing a WW2 diary and every day while doing that I thought of Nathaniel and his diary.

I am reading Westminster Archives "A Date with History" and when I do I think of Nathaniel and the exciting search we had last year.

I think about him every day when I power up my PC and see all the Nathaniel related folders on my desktop.

There are many more times I have thought about Nathaniel, often with a bit of sadness actually - maybe because there is so much more I want to know about his life and times, but there is nothing more to be found.

Thank you for the Bunhill Fields link Steve.  It is uplifting to know that some things are being saved. Lets hope it is well cared for.

[steve_gus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12549330

Update to Mongibello's strand union workhouse (Where granny shepard died) story