Hi All This day in 1911 (actually, yesterday in 1911) Saturday 1st April.................. "Hear all Sides" (equivalent to the present day Sheffield Star "Letters" page) The Census and Unemployment Sir, - It seems to me that a great opportunity for gauging the exact amount of unemployment in the country has been missed. (note instruction 3 as follows): "If out of work or discouraged at the time of the census, the usual occupation must be stated" Now, unless persons unemployed distinctly register themselves as such, the census returns will not be correct. It is most important that the true position of unemployment should be known so that the figures may noy not be juggled with by interested persons. - ------------------------------ and for the Horological minded Career of Well Known Sheffield Watchmaker (a brief extract) We announce the death of Mr George Burrell, watchmaker, a native of Collingham near Newark died yesterday at 52 Marlborough Road, Sheffield aged 84. Mr Burrell a well known clock and watchmaker used to relate that he was able to make two grandfather clocks in a fortnight. Mr Burrell left Collingham in 1851 to come to Messrs Bright & Sons, High Street, Sheffield as their foreman. On Messrs Bright transferring their establishment to Scarbro he started a business of his own at 5 King Street once a resort of James Montgomery the poet. In 1869 he devised a 3/4 plate movement of great simplicity and manufactured many hundreds at 5 King Street. These watches were specially made for the working man and excited the admiration of the late Mr E D Johnson, vice president of the Horological Institute. Mr Burrell was the first to introduce "adjusted keyless watches" into Sheffield. In 1879 he introduced into Sheffield the methods of synchronising and controlling clocks by electricity - still in use today (1911) by the Parish Church clock. Mr Burrell ceased work only two years previously at the age of 82. He leaves seven sons and three daughters to mourn his loss. Extracts from Sheffield Daily Independent http://www.cpiper.freeserve.co.uk/ Regards Gordon List Admin (in Sheffield) Sheffield Genealogy Website : http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~engsheffield -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.1 - Release Date: 01/04/2005