The Henson Journals

Wed 6 April 1927

Volume 42, Page 43

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Wednesday, April 6th, 1927.

^[paragraph strikethrough]^ I worked at the Glasgow lecture – a tiresome performance, for the subject bores me terribly, and I am by no means clear as to what I want to say.

After lunch I walked in the Park, where a football match between the Lightfoot Institute and the Auckland Butcher Boys was in progress. I called to inquire after Harold Bryden, & found him still very ill.

^[paragraph strikethrough]^ Lionel and I motored to Tudhoe Grange, where I confirmed 205 persons in an asphyxiating atmosphere. The church was thronged, & the ventilation hopeless. The candidates came from five parishes viz:

Tudhoe Grange 6869 inhabitants
Tudhoe 6000 "
Spennymoor 6030 "
Whitworth 3285 "
Merrington 3300 "
25,484

^[paragraph strikethrough]^ More than 500 persons reached the age of 14 last year; so that the number presented was about 40 per cent of the what it ought to have been. Yet this is above the average.

Gore sent me a post card acknowledging my Lock Lecture.

"I have read it with interest, and a large measure of agreement, though I never cd rest satisfied with C.L.'s individualism".