| Evidence: | 'Friday, 2nd April,
Walking over the Walton Hall Housing Estate. The spread of the city goes on apace. I find myself hoping that someday the grass will grow again over the site of so much ugliness. Talking of ugliness, nothing adds so much to its horror as monotony. Here are embryo slums, unless trees and gardens save them.
Read ? ?The life of Nelson? (Southey)'
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 2 Apr 1926 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Liverpool | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Gerald Moore |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 16 Jun 1903 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Coffee then Cocoa broker, working for Unilever - United Africa Company |
| Religion: | none |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Robert Southey |
| Title: | Life of Nelson |
| Genre: | Biography |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 12339 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | |
| Author: | Gerald Moore | |
| Title: | MS Diary 1926 | |
| Location: | Private Collection | |
| Call no: | MS Diary 1926 | |
| Page/folio: | n/a |
| Citation: | Gerald Moore, MS Diary 1926 Private Collection, p. MS Diary 1926, p. n/a, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12339, accessed: 29 March 2023 | |
| This material Copyright Andrew Neill Vanson Moore, and Shirley Frances Gould-Smith. |
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