Christmas Gifts for Local Sailors and Soldiers: Leicester “Post” & “Mercury” Fund: Some Forthcoming Concerts: The money necessary for providing Leicester and Leicestershire soldiers and sailors with a suitable Xmas present is not coming in so rapidly as might be wished seeing that we are now within a month of the time for dispatching the parcels … … A number of interesting evening events have been arranged for the benefit of the fund. A smoking concert is to be held on Wednesday next, the 24th inst., at the Manchester Working Men’s Club and Institute, Hamberstone Gate. On the following day a Concert is to be given at the Shaftesbury Hall, Holy Bones. The contributors are the Misses M. White, G. Bryan, D. Pinsent, N. Parr, K. K. Parr, D. Parr and A. Parr, and Mr. G. W. Reed … (continues) …
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GRO0176 Tiverton: Doris Hilda Pinsent: 1897 – xxxx