It’s Our Loraine’s Birthday on Tuesday… So here’s a true wish for happiness and lots of dreams made true…
…Not just on your special day, but always… Through and through…
Happy Birthday!
‘Galleries of Modern London’ at the Museum of London. Three years in the making, five galleries tell the story of London and its people from 1666 to the present day. 7000 objects, show-stopping interactives, specially designed family areas, with film and changing displays transporting you back through the Capital’s history, rich in drama, triumph and near disaster.
Nearest tube to the Museum of London is Barbican, St. Pauls, or Moorgate. Telephone inquiries: o2o 7001 9844
Lord Kindersley (baron) Robert Molesworth Kindersley. At fifteen years old he began his working life as a clerk on 15 shillings a week and eventually to Governor of the Hudson Bay Company from 1916 until 1925. A Director of The Bank of England, he was High Sheriff of Sussex in 1928, and President of the National Savings Committee from 1926 until 1946.
August 1951. Chicken eggs and their preservation. A new laid egg is produced with a constitution fitted to withstand infection to a marked degree, and will remain in an edible condition for a considerable period. At the broad end of the egg there is an air space. If the egg is stored with the broad end upwards the air space prevents the yolk rising to the shell, which it tends to do. The albumen itself has slight prophylatic properties, which the yolk lacks. It is, therefore, important that when packing an egg it should be done so as to reduce the possibility of the yolk reaching the shell. Once this takes place, infection can rapidly reach the yolk and a bad egg results. There is always the tendency for the water in the albumen to evaporate through the pores of the shell. This can be prevented by storing the egg in a moist, cool room. By so doing the rate of evaporation is substantially reduced, the air-space increases but slowly, while, if the egg is stored with the broad end upward, this and the lowered rate of evaporation retain the yolk in a fairly central position, and so deterioration of the contents can be delayed for a period up to, and often exceeding, two months. The rate of evaporation can still be slowed down by packing the egg in bran or similar material.
More satisfactory systems of egg preservation are the use of water-glass and lime-water. For the housewife the former method is probably the most convenient, and proprietary brands of water-glass can be purchased readily. The principle involved is that the sodium silicate in the water-glass prevents any evaporation at all from the egg. If, therefore, the eggs are immersed in the water-glass when in a fresh condition, and kept completely immersed with, if possible, the broad ends upwards (althought this is not essential) they may be kept stored and will remain in an edible condition for periods up to twelve months.
Walter R. Hammond. Played for Gloucestershire as an amateur cricketer in 1920, and when he turned professional in 1923 scored over a thousand runs in his first season for that county. Afterwards, he played for England against Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the West Indies.
John Berry Hobbs. Starting on the ground staff of Surrey County Cricket Club, he was eventually made a playing member and excelled as a batsman. By 1935, when he retired, he had made the then unsurpassed record of 197 centuries, including twelve in Tests against Australia. During his career he played many times for England.
January 1951… On Bicycle Wheels! To avoid uneven tyre wear and to provide reasonable operation of the rim brakes, wheels must be kept dead true. They very often go slightly out of true, however, and if the cycle is inverted and the wheels spun it is usually apparent to the eye. To make certain at which point or points a rim is out of true, it is a good idea to hold a piece of chalk lightly against it at the fork and then spin the wheel; the rim will then show marks at the points which require adjusting.
Sir Alexander Fleming was the discoverer of penicillin. He came to London from Ayrshire in the eighteen-nineties and spent some time in a shipping office before turning to medicine. He isolated penicillin after a chance discovery of the antiseptic properties of a mould. In 1946 he shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine with Sir Howard Florey.
June 5th 1950. In most cases dogs are not antagonistic to cats, and when it is noticed that they chase these animals the reason is usually traced to the fact that the owner finds it amusing to urge on the dog, using the word “cats”. This is not only cruel, but quite unnecessary.
Col. Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) later T.E. Shaw, was one of the most romantic figures of the First World War, his expert knowledge of Arab affairs led to the Government engaging him on special work. He organized and led an Arab army and held Damascus until relieved by General Allenby. Afterwards, shunning publicity, he became Aircraftman Shaw in the RAF. Sadly, he was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1935.
