The Henson Journals
Mon 17 August 1914
Volume 19, Page 256
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Monday, August 17th, 1914.
I attended a special meeting of the Council of the Durham Colleges. We did the requisite 'war–business'. After lunch we motored to Whorlton, & had tea with the Headlams. Their house is beautifully situated, and the grounds border the Tees. The stony & irregular channel winding at the foot of a well–wooded and almost precipitous bank reminds one of Scotland. I was delighted to see a king–fisher.
Headlam has just returned from a visit to Australia & Japan. Travelling by the Siberian Railway he was fortunate enough to get back to England just before the outbreak of war. He gives me no good account of Australia.
I attended at the school to see the Emergency Volunteers start their drilling. About 200 turned up, & marched about with admirable pertinacity. Among the patriots I noticed Brown, & Freeman.