Questions 14 - 20
FLINT FOR RECORDS 30, Orsett Road, Grays.
By The Camp Fire (Banjo).
I'll Say She Goes (Fox-Trot).
Dardanella (Fox-Trot).
Tannhauser Overture (Concertina).
Come To The Fair.
"Peaceland" parts 3 and 4.
Everybody Wants a Key to My Cellar.
And he'd say "Oo-la-la, wee wee".
I'm for ever Blowing Bubbles.
Pip-pip, toot-toot, good-by-ee.
15 Queen Elizabeth II Bridge
The controversy over the naming of the new Thurrock bridge took a twist this week when a politician suggested it be named after the Queen - who will officially open the link. Thurrock Council has been campaigning to have the bridge named after the borough, because Dartford already has the twin tunnels named after it. The builders Trafalgar House have made it clear that neither place will be included in the final choice of names, which are being considered by the Transport Department. However Andrew Mackinlay, Labour's prospective parliamentary candidate for Thurrock, suggested the title Queen Elizabeth II Bridge when he visited the borough's latest landmark.
16 Bata Factory
Next Quarter Day, it is hoped, will mark the beginning of a new era of prosperity in Tilbury, Stanford-le-Hope and district, for it is the day which Mr Thomas Bata, The Czecho-Slovakian boot and shoe magnate, has chosen for the commencement of his factories at East Tilbury. The first intimation that this industrial centre was to be built was revealed by this newspaper early in December, when, at the special request of Mr Bata, the actual facts with regard to his plans and his name were not disclosed. Mr Bata then stated that the details of the completion of the purchase of the land and other preliminaries would be available about the end of January. This gigantic new industrial centre, which is to contain no fewer than forty different factories and the houses of the workpeople, together with a railway station, riverside jetty, shops, aerodrome, swimming bath, theatre, dance halls and cinemas, is to be built on a site which at the moment comprises some 600 acres of land now being farmed by Mr. William W. Wilson, of St. Clere's Hall East Tilbury.
17 Naked in Grays
Drink. Drink. Drink. The cause of a large part of the mischief of the civilised world. In it men drown almost everything they possess but rarely do they sink to the depth that poor Thomas Ainsworth has fathomed. A full-grown man nude in the streets of a populous town is, happily for our manhood, as rare as it is a lamentable sight. The man cannot have had a vestige of sanity left in him, and we can well believe that he was suffering from delerium tremens. Should he ever come fully to himself, and once again be able to look back at the past and conjecture as to the future, the remembrance of Tuesday evening's exhibition in High-Street, Grays, will beget in him a sense of shame so intense that it may well endanger the restored balance of reason. To others it should be a warning. At the risk of repeating an old statement, we venture to affirm that Ainsworth's beastly exhibition of himself was but a natural outcome of the drinking customs of our land.
18 Wartime gardening
That he would hate to come down to Grays and find the front gardens filled with Brussels sprouts and cabbages instead of flowers was the opinion expressed by Mr. W.E. Shewell-Cooper N.D.H., F.L.S., F.R.S.A. F.R.H.S., a former gardening editor for the B.B.C. and well-known gardening lecturer when he gave one of his popular gardening talks on 'Grow your own food' at the Oddfellows Hall, Grays, on Monday. Arranged by the Educational Committee of The Grays Co-operative Society, the meeting was open to the public. The chair was taken by Mrs. H. Steer, a member of the Committee. Mr. Shewell-Cooper said that he thought there was a very great future for gardening in the country. He wished to make it quite plain from the start that he was not one of those people who wanted the householder to take up every flower-bed he had and to plant potatoes and vegetables.
19 Recruits leave Grays
On Monday, further enthusiastic scenes were witnessed at Grays on the departure of 44 more recruits en route for Warley. The men paraded in the drill hall yard at 3.30, and prayer was offered by the vicar of Grays (the Rev. A.H.W.Seally). Headed by the T.S. 'Exmouth' band, under the conductorship of Mr. Dines (the bandmaster), and the Palmers' School Cadets, they marched via Quarry Hill and High Street to the Railway Station, the route being crowded with thousands of people. The children of Quarry Hill schools were assembled inside the rails, and cheered heartily, waving flags, handkerchiefs, etc. All the way up the street the cheering continued. Large crowds assembled on the railway station and in Maidstone Road to catch a last glimpse of the gallant sons of the Orsett Hundred , and to give them a final cheer.
20 Snowballing a policeman
George Buttell, a labourer, of Grays, was charged with assaulting P.C. Page while in the execution of his duty on the 26th December. P.C. Page deposed to seeing a dozen men snowballing in the street on Sunday the 26th. Pedestrians passing were all served alike. Defendant came up to witness and hurled one at him, remarking, " Take that, you ******* bastard".
The Chairman said to throw a snowball at a person was an assault and defendant would be fined 2s 6d and 7s costs. Paid.