Well it was a touch gossipy, as I mentioned, quite a few of the people
there had known them, but as distant elders in their own now distant youth,
but I guess there was a picture that Larkin and Monica Jones were of a kind
and of a kind in their milieu.
She used to drink through the night listening to the Test match
commentaries from Australian tours, continually phoning up a hapless
colleague who once mentioned that he'd been listening to the same,* because
his latest child had been keeping the family awake*.
While the speaker had no doubt that Larkin's personae were Larkin and their
attitudes his.
On 12 May 2012 00:44, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> enjoying this thread, guys, and now tantalised - what's the biographer of
> PH and MJ saying?
>
> Max
>
> On 12/05/2012, at 2:15 AM, Patrick McManus wrote:
>
> > 'A faded Bircumshaw'---what an image ! title for a book ??anthology
> > /pamphlet -superb
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
> > Sent: 10 May 2012 13:26
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Found, a ( faded) snap
> >
> > I first came across a reference to this about 5 years ago, when it was
> > described as having happened 'circa 1848'. My great-great-great
> grandfather,
> > on his own father's death: from the report to the Children's Employment
> > Commission, 1842:
> > *REPORT by J. M FELLOWS, Esq., on the*
> > *Employment of Children and Young*
> > *Persons in the Mines and Collieries of* *Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire
> and
> > on the* *State, Condition and Treatment of such* *Children and Young
> > Persons.*
> >
> > "No.70. Joseph Bircumshaw. He is 16 years old and now works at Shipley.
> > Last September twelve-month his father who was heading at the bottom of
> the
> > shaft at Loscoe, in order to get the hard coal, perceived men who were
> > working in the soft bank about 30 yards above him had fired the pit and
> that
> > the fire had run up the shaft. He, being a timid man, insisted upon being
> > drawn up before the shaft had got clear of sulphur, the consequence was
> that
> > he fell from the tub and died immediately he was got out of the pit. Had
> he
> > remained where he was a short time, he would have taken no harm.
> > (Signed) JOSEPH BIRCUMSHAW."I was pleased to notice that he signed it
> (many
> > of them couldn't)
> >
> >
> > --
> > David Joseph Bircumshaw
> > "We are shallow, mababaw ang kaligayahan."
> > -* F. Sionil José*
> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
> > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
> > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
>
--
David Joseph Bircumshaw
"We are shallow, mababaw ang kaligayahan."
-* F. Sionil José*
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
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