This is a picture of Merchant Navy officer Arthur Parritt. Sadly the picture is not sufficiently clear to make out the name of the shipping company for which he worked, but it may be that amongst our readers is someone who knows about such things and can enlighten us! Arthur came from a typically large …
It’s In the Papers … International Fort Wayne Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Indiana,USA) 3 October 1890 POLICE PICKINGS A Dance Disturbed and George Parrott Under Arrest Last night Officer Borgman, the new policeman whose beat is in the Eighth Ward was summoned to the new house of Mr. Oetting on East Lewis Street where a dance …
The Good Old Days – never were! Wiltshire Removal Orders Poor P*RR*TTs, like so many others, were often harshly treated in the past. One way in which this manifested itself was that if they were – or seemed likely to be – unable to support themselves they could be forcibly ‘removed’ from where they were …
