Evidence: | 'The steps around Eros statue are filled with an excited crowd, coster's barrows stand around selling fruit, chocolate, etc. Hot chestnuts, roasted potatoes and peanuts are selling fast. It is 1 a.m. and most of the roadway is filled with people who read aloud the slowly spelled news reports on the running electric signboard over the end of Glasshouse Street.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 12 May 1937 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | night: 1 am | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London specific address: Shaftsbury Avenue |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reading Group: | people gathered near the Eros statue |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Unknown |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [n/a] |
Title: | [news running on electric signboard] |
Genre: | Politics, Reference / General works |
Form of Text: | Print: electric signboard with scrolling text |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | read in situ |
Record ID: | 10058 | |
Source - | Manuscript | Other |
Author: | Humphrey Jennings and Charles Madge, 'May the Twelfth: Mass-Observation Day Surveys' (London, 1937), p. 97, in Mass Observation Online (access to this site is restricted to purchasing institutions, please see http://www.amdigital.co.uk/collections/Mass-Observation-Online for details). http://www.massobservation.amdigital.co.uk, |
Citation: | Humphrey Jennings and Charles Madge, 'May the Twelfth: Mass-Observation Day Surveys' (London, 1937), p. 97, in Mass Observation Online (access to this site is restricted to purchasing institutions, please see http://www.amdigital.co.uk/collections/Mass-Observation-Online for details). http://www.massobservation.amdigital.co.uk, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=10058, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
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