The Henson Journals

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Friday, May 3rd, 1929.

Caröe secured from me a very reluctant consent to the removal of the ivy from the wall at the East end of the chapel.

Ella and I motored to Durham, where I presided over the annual meeting of the Preventive and Rescue Association. In the afternoon I walked in the Park, & there lighted on four youths from Tow Law, who are attending the training centre for unemployed in Bishop Auckland. I took them into the garden, & showed them the photographs of wild beasts which I had cut out of the Times. They were keenly interested.

Ella and I motored to Newcastle, where I attended a meeting of the Castle Preservation Committee: Sir Thomas Oliver intrigued us with a talk of a contribution of £10,000, which he seemed surprised had not been paid in. We have been so often deluded that we dare not permit ourselves to be optimistic.

I undertook to write something on Disestablishment for "The review of the Churches," & I paid the month's household bills.

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