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Leicestershire / Re: Train travel in 1911 from Earl Shilton, Leicestershire to central London.
« on: Friday 20 September 19 11:36 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Redroger and Mvann for your replies; I wasn't sure how good the train network would have actually been for the public around that year, but thought the journey probably would have been doable within a few hours, even then.  Perhaps it was better back then that what we have nowadays with the various train operators :)

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Leicestershire / Train travel in 1911 from Earl Shilton, Leicestershire to central London.
« on: Wednesday 18 September 19 18:29 BST (UK)  »
Would anyone be able to provide a rough idea of how long a train journey might have taken in around 1911 from Earl Shilton/nearest train station to Earl Shilton in to central London? 

I'm trying to work out whether it would have been doable within a few hours of the same day in 1911 - related to a genealogical research issue that has cropped up - and am guessing it would have been possible.

Thank you

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Occupation Interests / Re: Query re researching a beerhouse and beerhouse keeper in London 1911
« on: Saturday 02 March 19 11:32 GMT (UK)  »
Ray and Maiden Stone - thank you so much for these informative and fascinating replies.  There is much here for me to look at and mull over.  Thanks.

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Occupation Interests / Re: Query re researching a beerhouse and beerhouse keeper in London 1911
« on: Wednesday 27 February 19 14:33 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you ShaunJ and Maiden Stone; it looks it was relatively easy, then, for someone to just open one up and start operating.  I will look for those books too.  From the picture of Hanks Guitar shop, it looks like a small premises.  I wonder whatever possessed him to suddenly take up something like that, later in life.

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Occupation Interests / Re: Query re researching a beerhouse and beerhouse keeper in London 1911
« on: Tuesday 26 February 19 15:13 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you to everyone who has replied; I knew he'd been in trouble with the law after moving there and I believe he did lose his licence as a consequence of the incident with Mr Kidman, or Midman, as some reports give his name.

So we know Frederick moved there sometime after 1905.  I too am wondering about things like insurance, licenses etc (i.e. any such documents that may be potentially out there somewhere and accessible that link back to him and the beerhouse).   I assume he must have amassed some sort of money to take over the lease in the first place? - how did working class people suddenly start to   operate such beerhouses at this time, especially as he doesn't appear to have ever worked in this type of industry previously, to get the experience.

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Occupation Interests / Re: Query re researching a beerhouse and beerhouse keeper in London 1911
« on: Monday 25 February 19 17:10 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you both for these replies; I will look at the newspapers.  It is Frederick Langdon and the beerhouse was in Denmark Street.

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Occupation Interests / Query re researching a beerhouse and beerhouse keeper in London 1911
« on: Monday 25 February 19 15:00 GMT (UK)  »
In my research, I've come across someone running/having a beerhouse in central London on the 1911 census.  What records could I search to glean as much further information as possible about this please?  It would be good to find out what dates it was operated by this individual, but I'm looking for any additional information at all, really, to flesh out what I already know from the census.  He didn't have previous or subsequent experience as a publican/linked profession as far as I can tell.  Thanking you in advance for any suggestions/guidance.

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Occupation Interests / Re: What was a "Works Policeman - Electrical Engineers" in 1940s England?
« on: Thursday 24 May 18 10:45 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much for your reply; it is good to be able to finally know exactly what type of work he was doing at this late stage in his life, and gain more of an insight into what this would have involved. :)


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Occupation Interests / Re: What was a "Works Policeman - Electrical Engineers" in 1940s England?
« on: Wednesday 23 May 18 16:17 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much for this reply - that's really interesting and informative to be able to know more about this role that he indeed must have been undertaking in the final stage of his life during the second world war years. :)

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