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Search Essex parish registers on Ancestry. Help me find my ancestors - example search. Looking for pictures to add to your family tree album? Link below already formatted for Essex and Postcards. Essex Postcards on Ebay. I would be very surprised if the Yorkshire Evening Post , the Huddersfield Examiner , the Bradford Argus or their possible antecedents did not have special editions on the streets within hours of the official time of the declaration of war.
I realise that this is not based on evidence but the speed of the telegraph and telegram was quite impressive. I have seen the terminals of the telegraph apparatus in a private house in Liverpool that was reputedly used to keep Gladstone a regular house guest in touch with London in the s or so the latter-day owners claimed in the s.
I doubt whether the various provincial exchanges Stock, cotton, corn, wool etc would have allowed themselves to be very much behind London and I mean no more than a couple of minutes and news would have spread quickly from there.
My Ward Lock travel guides quick click for the s and s list the opening times for local telegraph offices and they frequently included Sundays. If Lloyd George could occasionally run the country from Criccieth deep into North Wales where urgent telegrams, I am told, were displayed in the telegraph office window "LLG, proceed Londonwards soonest, abandonmost wife, lovemost, Popsy" I made that up but it would doubtless have caused some gossip on Criccieth High Street had it been in the Post office window if they had been unable to delivever at Bryn Awel , the speed of communication cannot have been too bad.
There was, naturally, no radio to turn on for the news and as the time approached someone rose and went down to [Alderley Edge] post office to read the telegram stuck up in the window and announcing the German decision.
On the 4th of August war was declared and my call up papers came through the post. Marchbank,8th Royal Scots. The Army Council,in pursuance of His Majesty's Proclamation,has directed you to attend for enlistment immediately.
Bring rations and fuel light to last 24 hours. Although there was no television or radio, the advent of the telegraphic wire services meant that news was available almost instantaineously. This is a snippet of the Edmonton Bulletin of August 5th describing the situation the previous evening at 8 o'clock, when news of the declaration of war between Britain and Germany became known.
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