London Daily Chronicle: Saturday 5th November 1927

Wireless Programmes: … Daventry (5GB Experimental): 610 kc (491.8 metres): … Sunday … includes … 8.45: Mr. Roy Pinsent appealing on behalf of the Birmingham Boys’ and Girls’ Union (Week’s Good Cause), relayed from Birmingham.


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GRO0768 Devonport: Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978

Exeter and Plymouth Gazette: Saturday 5th November 1927

Sunday’s Programmes: London and Daventry: … … Daventry (5GB Experimental): … (radio programming) … 8.0: A Religious Service, with an address by the Rev. A. E. Forrest, from the Birmingham studio: 8.45: Mr. Roy Pinsent, appealing on behalf of the Birmingham Boys’ and Girls’ Union (the Weeks’s Good Cause), relayed from the Birmingham Studio: 8.50: Weather Forecast and News: …

[see also Aberdeen Journal: Saturday 5th November 1927 and Derby Daily Telegraph: Saturday 5th November 1927]


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GRO0768 Devonport: Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978

Derbyshire Times: Saturday 5th November 1927

Weekend Wireless Programme: … Daventry (5 GB) Experimental: … Sunday November 6th … 8.45: … The Week’s Good Cause: Mr. Roy Pinsent – Appeal on behalf of the Birmingham Boys’ and Girls’ Union. Relayed from the Birmingham Studio. …


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GRO0768 Devonport: Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978

Northampton Mercury: Friday 4th November 1927

5 GB: Daventry Experimental Station: 610 KC: … (programme) … Sunday Nov 6th: … 8.45: The Week’s Good Cause: Mr. Roy Pinsent: Appeal on behalf of the Birmingham Boys’ and Girls’ Union, relayed from the Birmingham Studio:


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GRO0768 Devonport: Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Saturday 29th October 1927

Holt Brewing Co. Ltd.:  Wolverhampton and Birmingham Firms Taken Over: Creation of £500,000 Debenture Stock Sanctioned … … (long discussion) … … Articles of Association … … Mr. G. O. Brettall: I have great pleasure in seconding this resolution. Before putting the resolution to the meeting, the chairman called upon Mr. Roy Pinsent to explain it. This was also carried, and a vote of thanks to the chairman was accorded on the proposition of Mr. A. J. Hatwell.


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GRO0768 Devonport: Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978

The Stage: Thursday 17th March 1927

Juvenile Dramatics. Juvenile dramatic competitions, under the auspices of the Birmingham Amateur Dramatic Federation, were held in Birmingham lust week. The shield presented by Sir Barry Jackson was awarded to the Norton Training School, who performed “Shades of Night.” Second place was obtained by another team from the same school. Mr. Roy Pinsent’s challenge shield was won by the girls of the Shenley Fields School.


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GRO0768 Devonport: Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Thursday 10th March 1927

Child Amateur Actors: winning Teams in Kyrle Hall Competitions: The juvenile competitions promoted by the Birmingham Amateur Dramatic Federation were continued at Kyrle Hall last night, and nine Birmingham schools sent in competing companies of players. … … The shield presented by Mr. Roy Pinsent was awarded to Shenley Fields Schools, who performed scenes from the “Tempest,” gaining 88 marks out of 100. …


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GRO0768 Devonport: Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978

London Daily Chronicle: Saturday 5th November 1927

Wireless Programmes: … Daventry (5KG Experimental): 610 kc (491.8 Meters) … 8.45: Mr. Roy Pinsent appealing on behalf of the Birmingham Boys’ and Girls’ Union (Week’s Good Cause) relayed from Birmingham. …


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GRO0768 Devonport: Roy Pinsent: 1883 – 1978

Birmingham Mail: Wednesday 24th June 1925

Birmingham Boys’ and Girls’ Union Institution: At Aldridge, about nine miles from the centre of the city, the Birmingham Boys’ and Girls’ Union has a delightful camp provided for them by Mr. Roy Pinsent. Every weekend, winter and summer, a party of children – at present the number is 60 per week, — spend a happy time in the camp, which is called the Woodlands, Bourne Vale, amid beautiful surroundings. The area occupied by the camp, or rather placed at the disposal of the union, is some 22 acres of woodland and meadow. Last evening Mr. and Mrs. Roy Pinsent and Mr. E. Fancott (organizing secretary of the union) were hosts to a number of folks from various parts of the city, to whom the beauties of the camp and its ideal surroundings came as a great surprise. …


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

Birmingham Daily Gazette: Wednesday 24th June 1925

Children’s Camp: This was the happy idea of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Pinsent and Mr. E. Fancott, who thus enabled a few invited friends to see the sylvan beauties of the camp where thousands of Birmingham children spend many happy hours. For there, at the Woodlands, Bourne Vale, near Aldridge, is the weekend camp of the Birmingham Boys’ and Girls’ Union.


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