Tag: Evening Despatch

Evening Despatch: Saturday 8th May 1937

Funeral of Former City Electrical Engineer: A number of well-known Birmingham people attended the funeral of Mr. Clough Vaudrey, form City Electrical Engineer, at Quinton this afternoon. … (discussion) … Other mourners were … (list includes) … Mr. R. A. Pinsent …

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

Evening Despatch: Friday 9th April 1937

Roof-Top Playground on a New Children’s Paradis: Kyrle Hall, Steep Street playground and social club of nearly 4,000 Birmingham boys and girls is being transformed into a children’s paradise. The rebuilding of the Hall, headquarters of the Birmingham Boys’ and Girls’ Union began nearly a year ago. Soon it will be competed. … continues with description … Over £30,000 has been already subscribed. This success has been greatly due to the generosity of the “good uncle” of Birmingham boys and girls, Mr. Roy Pinsent, chairman of the council of the Union. When, last June, the appeal was launched, supported by personal appeals by the Duke of Gloucester and Alderman S. J. Grey, then Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Mr. Pinsent offered to double all donations up to £10,000. … (continues) …

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GRO0768 Devonport: Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978

Evening Despatch: Thursday 3rd December 1936

Birmingham Boys’ and Girls’ Union: Rebuilding of Kyrle Hall: Second List of Donations: … (subscribers) … Total of the above list: £2,663 2s 6d. Mr. Roy Pinsent, who is doubling all donations up to £10,000, had given his second instalment: £2,663 2s 6. Grand total to date: £17,930 18s …include …

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GRO0768 Devonport: Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978

Evening Despatch: Thursday 2nd July 1936

Birmingham Boys’ and Girls’ Union: Rebuilding of Kyrle Hall. The council of the Union gratefully acknowledge the following donations and promise under covenant which haven received up to and including 30th June, 1936, for the amounts as stated: … list of subscribers … includes … £500, Mr. R. A. Pinsent … Total of the above donations: £6,302 6s 6d: Mr. Roy Pinsent, who is doubling all donations up to £10,000 has given: £6,302 6 6d. Grant total to Date: £12,604 13s 0d.

Photograph: Scholars of the Dartmouth Street Senior Girls School gave “The Sylvan Glade” before their parents last night. This play won them the “Roy Pinsent” Shield, seen in the picture.

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948
GRO0768 Devonport: Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978

Evening Despatch: Friday 22nd May 1936

£25,000 Kyrle Hall: Generous Offer of Mr. Roy Pinsent: Rebuilding Scheme to Include Roof Sports Area: New Juvenile Centre: … Photograph: Mr. Roy Pinsent – who will double all donations to the Kyrle Hall Appeal up to £10,000: An appeal for £25,000 for the rebuilding of Kyrle Hall in Sheep-street Birmingham which, since 1911 when it was handed over by the Kyrle Society, has been the headquarters Birmingham Boys’ and Girls’ Union has been launched. When the hall is completed, it will be one the best-equipped centres of club work in the country. The call for funds is being supported by a personal appeal from the Duke of Gloucester and the Lord Mayor (Ald. S. J. Grey) and it has already received a very generous and public-spirited send-off by the offer of Mr. Roy Pinsent chairman of the Council of the Union to double all donations to appeal up to £10,000. The Lord Mayor message points out that Kyrle Hall has a record of over 40 years’ service among the boys and girls of the city and after stressing the importance which is nowadays attached to youth organizations says: “The work has outgrown its present accommodation and Kyrle Hall is to be rebuilt on modern lines. I trust that those who have the matter in hand will find a ready response to their appeal for the requisite funds.” … (continues at length) …

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GRO0768 Devonport: Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978

Evening Despatch: Saturday 25th April 1936

Women Mob Town Clerk’s Daughter at Wedding: Crowd’s Long Wait in the Rain: Pretty Retinue for Birmingham Pro-Cathedral Bride: “Silver Waterfall” Gown. Scores of women – many of whom had waited for more than an hour – surged across Colmore Row and surrounded her car when Miss Hazel Margaret Wiltshire, daughter of Mr. F. H. C. Wiltshire, the Town Clerk of Birmingham and Mrs. Wiltshire, of 2 Dorset House, Wellington Road, Edgabston, arrived at Birmingham Cathedral Church this afternoon for her wedding to Dr. Henry Bernard David Kettlewell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kettlewell. … (description of welling) … 400 Guests: After the ceremony a reception to which 400 guests were invited, was held at the Grand Hotel … (long list includes) … Mr. and Mrs. Roy Pinsent …

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GRO0679 Devonport: Mary Tirzah Pinsent: 1897 – 1951
GRO0768 Devonport: Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978

Evening Despatch: Monday 20th April 1936

Hospital Bequests: Warwick Man’s £16,000 Estate: Mr. Arthur Perks Thornley of Whitacre, Warwick, left estate valued at £16,118 with net personality £15,640. Probate has been granted to Roy Pinsent, of 6 Bennett’s Hill, Birmingham, the sole executor. … (list of bequests) …

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GRO0768 Devonport: Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978

Evening Despatch: Monday 24th June 1935

Vicar’s Daughter Sues Hotel: Manager and her Alleged Bad Manners: Midland Action: The question of whether or not a woman “behaved like a lady” at an hotel was raised before Mr. Justice Macnaughten at Shropshire Assizes today when Mrs. Betty Annsley Eade, of Astley House near Shrewsbury brought an action for alleged libel against Portmeirion Limited, of Caernarvon, and Archibald Browne, of the Mytton and Mermaid Hotel, Alcham, near Shrewsbury, manager of the hotel. … Mr. H. St. John Field and Mr. W. H. Williams (instructed by Pinsent and Co., of Birmingham), (for) the defendants [she behaved badly when trying to make arrangements at the hotel]

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Evening Despatch: Wednesday 4th January 1933

Birmingham Knight’s £1.000 Bequest to University: Sir Walter Fishers; Many Gifts to Servants: £500 to Boys’ and Girls’ Union: … (discussion) … Probate has been granted to his son Howard W. Fisher of 4 Waterloo Street, Birmingham, Chartered accountant, the Very Rev. C. M. Owen, D.D. of the Deanery, Ripon and Richard A. Pinsent, 6, Bennett’s Hill, Birmingham, Solicitor … (description of contents of will) …

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

Evening Despatch: Thursday 22nd December 1932

The Round of Xmas Parties: The Carnegie Youths’ Clubs held a combined Junior Christmas party at the Hartfield Crescent Schools last Saturday … (continues) … Prize-Giving at Kyrle: The cups and medals won by Union Members during 1931-2 were distributed by the Chairman of the Executive, Mr. Roy Pinsent, at Kyrle Hall on Tuesday evening last. In a short chat to an audience of about 200 club members (boys), Mr. Pinsent talked about the need for careful handling of club equipment and for general thoughtfulness, in view of the financial position of the Union …

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GRO0768 Devonport: Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978