Tag: Reading Standard

Reading Standard: Friday 21st May 1937

Mental Health: Services Provided by Berkshire and Oxfordshire Authorities: It has been a firmly rooted tradition in English local government that no publicity shall be given to the services which are provided by local authorities … (continues) … Since the statutory bodies do so little to make themselves known, there is a great advantage in an impartial study such as Mrs. E. F. Pinsent’s “Mental Health Services in Oxford, Oxfordshire and Berkshire” (2/- net). It is the first section that has yet appeared of a survey which will cover all the main services in the Oxford area and which has been organized from Barnett House. The report gives an account of the powers held by the local authorities …

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Reading Standard: Friday 3rd May 1935

Amersham Hall Fellowship: Old Boys of a Once Famous School Meet in Reading: A Joyous Reunion: On Saturday last, the 27th ult., the railway station at Reading was the scene of a joyous gathering. At precisely 11.30 about twelve well-appointed motor cars drew up in the station yard from which emerged serenely but by no means stiffly, about two dozen or perhaps thirty well preserved elderly gentlemen with the light of pleasurable anticipation diffusing the august countenances … (continues) … Those present at the reunion included … R. A. Pinsent …

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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948

Reading Standard: Friday 12th January 1894

Hungerford Petty Session: Wednesday: Before Mr. W. H. Dunn, Mr. Appach and Dr. H. Pike major. … … Illegal Removal of a Pig: Joseph Pinsent, (sic) farmer, was fined one shilling and 8s 6d costs for illegally removing a pig out of Wiltshire into Berks. Defendant admitted the offence, but said it was done in ignorance, as the animal had not been sold but only removed by him from the farm he was leaving to the one in Berks he was moving to; he did not know he was breaking the law.

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