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Description: | Inscription on the inside cover: "Mansfield Pennell, Lincoln, Gowts Bridge House".
Many of the cuttings are humorous photographs, cartoons or comments. Subjects also include European royal families, the aristocracy (including society portraits), 'the Matterhorn tragedy', religion, British and Russian history, Tennyson, shipwrecks, etc. Cuttings relating to the Pennell family are also included, e.g.: p.23: death of Mr Charles Pennell; pp25-33: Mr Charles Waldegrave Pennell as Councillor and Mayor of Lincoln.
The book also contains handwritten remarks on Dean Hole taken from "Then and Now" and a copy of a memorial inscription in Wirksworth. An engraving of Lincoln seen from across the Brayford is included on p.40.
Enclosures: include booklet of photographs of Torquay; copy of the Lincolnshire Echo reporting the end of World War I, 11 Nov 1918; and cutting about the new motor fire engine at Lincoln, 29 Oct 1910 (including photographs of engine and crew). | Temporal: | 1900s-1910s | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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