1874
House Servant £9 per year
1875
Bedroom Couch £1.1.0
Young Servant £7 per year
Gold Locket Chain from Haywards £5.10s
1876
Lustres in Drawing Room 21/-
1877
Sewing Machine from Musgraves £4.10.0
1878
20 May 1878 Front attic thoroughly cleaned, floor washed once with a little chloride of lime.
5 June 1878 Paper hangers came to do staircase, dining and drawing rooms.
Butter dish, glass & silver from Haywards £1.0.0
5 teeth stopped & 2 of husbands cost 30/-
Thimble steel & silver from Haywards 2/-
1879
14 May 1879 New cistern put in kitchen roof.
Servant Girl £10 per year
Servant Girl £12 per year
Curtains in Drawing Room from Faggs 25/-
Cigar Stand from Uptons 7/6
Boots for 2 year old 13/-
Black Silk Jacket £3.15.0
1880
21 May 1880 Cleaned the three attics out.
Feather Bed from Tyler in London £6.15.0 was cost price
Blue & gold Dinner Set from Wilson in High Street £2.15.0
Girl to help servant 1/6 per week
Drawing Room Clock at Darleys £4.0.0
Large pair Vases from Popes £1.1.0
Bonnet 29/6
Photod at Blackalls 5/6 for 6 (assuming this was mistyped in transcript, and was photos)
Boots from Franks £1.1.0
Umbrella from Bretts 7.11
Black & Beige Costume £1.12.10
Childs Costume & pinafore 15.7
China Flower Basket at Popes 12/6 marked 15/-
Child's Highland Suit at Joseph's 22/- marked 26/-
1882
Nurse after baby born for 3 weeks 12/- per week
Dining Room Curtains 24/-
Gold Broach £2.12.6
6 plated fish knives & forks from Reich's £2.13.6
Biscuit Tin 25/-
Plated Hot Water Jug 27/6
Oval Mirror on velvet with vase attached for flowers £1.1.0
Ladies Laced Boots from Franks 18/9
Gold Bracelet £5.5.0
1883
Wm Bought this house 42 Tontine Street for £375, with £10 per year as well for ground rent. Tontine St being paved
with wood, which I hope we shall find a great relief - the noise getting unbearable.
2 May 1883 2 front attic windows altered, front of house fresh cemented. Balconet put to Dining room windows.
20 Oct 1883 Alterations at back of house begun.
Dined at Table d'hote at the Criterion in London 3/6 each but bill ran up to 13/-
Mirror framed in wreath of Worcester China on velvet bracket 30/-
Meat price gone up, Shoulders Mutton 1/- lb and B E neck ½ (B E = Best End)
Friends to visit, found them a room for 1/6 per night
1884
4 Jan 1884 Poplar tree and shrubs planted in our new yard, children helped plant tree.
Servant girl £10 per year
Nurse 2/- per week
Boots 2 pairs 18/9 & 10/9
Stock Gyll Force 3d each to go in grounds Highly picturesque waterfall in the Lake District
High charges at hotel, glass of beer 3d, Bottle of Lemonade 6d, Cold lunch of bread, meat & cheeses 3/- each
1885
Made 14 pots of marmalade, 16 oranges 1/-, 10lbs sugar at 2¼ per lb.
Steamboat from Charing Cross pier to Hampton Court 1/6 each. Lunch on board 2/- each.
1886
Fruit cheap this year Plums 1s 2d per gall, damsons 9d
1887
18th Aug 1887 Ethel able to get down stairs (she had been ill in bed with measles)
Easter Communion Service 330 there collection was £58
Tram in Chester 3d charge for any distance
Lunch of Stout, bread & cheese on Snowdon 2/6 each
Lunch at 'The Goat' 2/6 each
Conway Water Falls, 2d to go down path to deep ravine. Possibly Conwy Falls in Wales, that does have a Fairy Glen
Fairy Glen 2d
1888
Washing Machine £2.15.0
1889
28th May 1889 Children to mother's while stairs were painted.
Gold Chain from O'Clee's £8.0.0
Childs Doll 9/-
Silver Chain 18/6
Board & Lodging at Paddlesworth, child age 14 10/- other children 7/6 per week
1890
Pepper's Ghost Entertainment & The Flying Dutchman in Torquay, seats 2/-
1891
Carpet for church vestry, art square from Lewis & Goole's £1.10.0
12 menu holders £2.8.0
1892
Umbrella 11/11
Train from Leamington to Warwick 3d each
24 wine glasses & 2 decanters from Popes 35/-
1893
27 Jan 1893 Susie better and down stairs (she had been ill in bed with mumps)
Eye Glasses from Chancery Lane London 2/-
Church collection on Hospital Sunday £64
Boat to Cowes from Royal Pier 3/- each 1st class return
Carriage from Hotel to Carisbrooke Castle 4d each
Newport Church, charged 6d each to be shown around
1894
Wedding invitation cards 14/6 for 50
Case of fish knives & forks 47/-
1895
Boarding House 'Pleasance' in Tunbridge Wells board 7/- per day
Let Manor Road House, furnished for 5 weeks at 7 guineas a week
2 Rooms in Montague Terrace Richmond 2½ guineas a week
Big Wheel ride for half an hour 1/- each
1896
Train from Tunbridge to Sevenoaks 2/- each to go over Mansion.
Violin £15
Necklet 45/- From Faulkener & Co. London
Rooms at Friars Stile Road Richmond 30/- per week
Bicycle £14.14.0
1897
19 June 1897 Street decorated with flags and festoons, fairy lamps
and Chinese lanterns."
22 June 1897 Jubilee Day. Wm, Ethel, Susie and I in Mayor's procession.
Crowds of people. Mr Howard threw a box of peaches in our carriage. Bonfires and illuminations."
Dinner Service 35/-
House in Kingsnorth Gardens sold for £800, resold shortly after for £850.
Dance at Masonic Hall, Hall £2.2.0, Band £2.2.0, Supper 2/- per head.
1898
Bicycle £18
1900
To Staines by the Duke of York 3/6 each return [probably from Richmond]
Ride round Edinburgh by Cable Tram then by a char a banc to the Forth Bridge 1/3 each
1d for a ride in a shakey little motor car at Haymarket
Duke of Atholl's Private grounds including guide 2/- each
1903
Gold Watch £11.11.0
Gold Chain for watch £7.5.0
Tea Service 12/6
Dinner Service 14/6
Folkestone to Deal cheap return fare 1/6
1904
Gold Pin & pair of links £1.1.0
Leg operation £100 guineas
Pony Trap from Ramill £30
1905
Lunch at Lyons in London 1/6
1906
Ebony Hair brush 8/6
Tram to Potter Heigham station fare fishermans tickets 1/3 return [probably from Yarmouth]
1907
4 ferns 3/6
Cake Basket £2.2.0
Ethel went for a job interview at White Hall Hotel, Hampton Court, and was engaged as Housekeeper at £36 per year.
1908
Massage ankle, ½ hour a day for 35 days £8.15.0
6 Silver Teaspoons & Sugar Tongs in case 25/-
1909
Silver Photo Frame 12/6
1910
Folkestone to Rye by Motor 7/- each
1911
Folkestone to Hastings by Motor 8/- each
1913
Rocking Horse 17/-
1914
Silver & Paste brooch Bow £1.1.