old & new day 7

old & new

the new would be my iDiary on my iPad in stark contrast with this old ship engineers' diary. which is from 1882.
It is written in The Newcastle Memorandum book and Register & Almanack for the year 1880...

nice snippets of info from the Almanack:
a list of judges visiting Newcastle from 1844-1879, a similar list of High Sheriffs for the High County of Durham,
rules for 'ascertaining the weight of cattle ( by measuring them....)

and also a few handwritten bits of diary of R Johnson, engineer Newcastle-on-Tyne as you see above:

he reports a lot of heavy crashes...... engines & stopping immediately.....it sounds as if he had his work cut out......

1st entry is on Christmas Day, which indeed fell on monday in 1882 -I Googled it-

25/12/1882 SS Blaydon
1 am.
en route to Gibraltar engines working very sluggish.( followed by all sort of technical talk about valves, pistons & pressure going wrong....) stoped 16 hrs and arrived at Gibraltar jan 1 1883 at 3am having traveled 1000 miles going slow....

Dec 24th 1887
Arrived in Boulogne from Briton Ferry (a place in Wales) after a run of 54 hrs on SS Guyers

SS Blaydon Nov 25 1889
from Gibraltar to New York 16 days, pilot on board 9.45am, cleared customs at 3pm arrived New York 3.30pm?.

clearing customs takes a bit longer today there nowadays?.

maybe one or 2 more days till this series comes to an end....:)