1926

An indoor blip today, due to the almost continuous rain we’ve had which has kept me inside, (plus we’ve been decorating all day).  So, a blip of the pretty driftwood and shell mirror, that I bought from a local antique/interiors centre last year.
 
The photo in the reflection is of my late mother taken in Canada 88 years ago, around the time she was adopted by English foster parents, who later brought her to the UK with them.
 
My mum was born in 1926, it was an eventful year:
 
2 January – The payment of Contributory Old Age Pensions began.
27 January – John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system in London.
1 May – coal miners' strike begins in Britain over planned pay reductions.
3 May – General Strike begins in support of the coal strike.
4 May – the BBC broadcasts five news bulletins a day as no newspapers are published due to the general strike.
9 May – martial law in Britain because of the general strike.
12 May – the general strike ends.
24 July – first greyhound track in Britain opens in Manchester.
6 August – American swimmer Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel from France to England. 
7 August – the first British Grand Prix  held at the Brooklands circuit near Weybridge.
18 August – the Miners' Federation of Great Britain begins negotiations with the government.
30 August – cricketer Jack Hobbs scores 316 runs at match at Lord's, the highest individual total scored at that ground.
12 October – British miners agree to end their strike.
2 December – the Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin ends the martial law that had been declared due to the general strike.
3 December – Agatha Christie disappears from her home in Surrey; on 14 December she is found in a Harrogate hotel by journalist Ritchie Calder.
7 December – the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, later the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) is founded.
15 December – Legitimacy Act 1926 permits the legitimisation of a child born to unmarried parents by their subsequent marriage to each other.
Undated
- Electricity (Supply) Act creates the Central Electricity Board to set up the National Grid. 
- K2 red telephone box introduced, chiefly in London area.
- First appearance of the Gill Sans-serif typeface, designed by Eric Gill for Douglas Cleverdon.  
 
How times have changed!
 

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