Winchester: Mayor and Mayoress’s Big Party: The Mayor and Mayoress of Winchester, Major and Mrs. Pinsent, organized a party for 1,200 elementary school children. The Odeon Theatre and the staff put on a special cinema show. The Mayoress gave 95 dozen packets of chocolate, and the mayor gave 1,600 new three penny pieces for the younger children who could not be got into the Theatre. When the Mayor wished the children a happy Christmas and expressed the hope that they would have plenty of good things to eat, but would not eat too much at one time, he was met with the reply by 1,200 voices in unison, “And the same to you!”
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GRO0528 Devonport: John Ryland Pinsent: 1888 – 1957
GRO1118 Devonport: Kathleen May Boyce: 1894 – 1969