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Offline Wiggy

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Re: My Great Grandmother's Memoir
« Reply #9 on: Monday 18 February 19 01:16 GMT (UK) »
I was taught to write 'Q' like that when I started school.     ;)  Think you are right about Queen magazine then.
Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: My Great Grandmother's Memoir
« Reply #10 on: Monday 18 February 19 08:04 GMT (UK) »
Thank you shanreagh and Wiggy, that's great!

Do you think
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put up on the platform (?)
could be "put up on the blackboard"? It would make sense but I couldn't see any Bs in there. Looking again - the first letter looks similar to the second b in "all things bright and beautiful".

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Re: My Great Grandmother's Memoir
« Reply #11 on: Monday 18 February 19 08:31 GMT (UK) »
Old classrooms had platforms at the front where the teacher sat and could see everyone . . . And be seen.  I think platform is more likely - make an exhibition of the miscreant!  ;)

I don't think it says blackboard.


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Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: My Great Grandmother's Memoir
« Reply #12 on: Monday 18 February 19 14:55 GMT (UK) »
Old classrooms had platforms at the front where the teacher sat and could see everyone . . . And be seen.  I think platform is more likely - make an exhibition of the miscreant!  ;)

I don't think it says blackboard.

Thanks again Wiggy! I was thrown by the final letter, and because I couldn't imagine a classroom having a 'platform' in it. But I've googled it and seen that you are completely right!

I also found this interesting punishment:
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‘Punishment baskets’ were used in some Victorian classrooms to suspend badly behaved children from the ceiling. The pupil was made to sit in a wicker basket and was then raised from the ground by ropes and pulleys.
In comparison, I see that being "put up on the platform" is not outlandish at all!


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Re: My Great Grandmother's Memoir
« Reply #13 on: Monday 18 February 19 16:24 GMT (UK) »
Nothing to do with reading the handwriting but depending on whether your great grandmother lived in Sussex I think the Revd Streatfeild she mentions was the father of Noel Streatfeild who wrote Ballet Shoes and other books.

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Re: My Great Grandmother's Memoir
« Reply #14 on: Monday 18 February 19 18:20 GMT (UK) »
Nothing to do with reading the handwriting but depending on whether your great grandmother lived in Sussex I think the Revd Streatfeild she mentions was the father of Noel Streatfeild who wrote Ballet Shoes and other books.

Yes I think you're right. She lived in St Leonards, where said Reverend was the vicar from 1902, so it's an exact fit. He became Bishop of Lewes, not Brighton as she wrote, but I'll forgive her that as she was writing ca. 50 years after he died!

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« Reply #15 on: Monday 18 February 19 20:11 GMT (UK) »
Noel and her elder sister Ruth were probably the 2 daughters mentioned Ruth was Ruth Gervis who was an illustrator ( as well as a teacher ) and illustrated a number of books including Ballet Shoes. There were 3 other siblings as well.

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Re: My Great Grandmother's Memoir
« Reply #16 on: Monday 18 February 19 21:01 GMT (UK) »
Hello,

I think the magazine was The Quiver, it was one of those publications that was deemed suitable for Sunday reading.

Brie

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Re: My Great Grandmother's Memoir
« Reply #17 on: Tuesday 19 February 19 09:33 GMT (UK) »
Hello,

I think the magazine was The Quiver, it was one of those publications that was deemed suitable for Sunday reading.

Brie

That's brilliant, thank you Brie! I think that's the answer!