#Breas Greenwood

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Thursday 19.. February 1835

7 5

11 ¾

no kiss A-‘s cousin came very gently last night on getting into bed  very fine morning but rain at 7 and afterwards, and F44° now at 8 ¾ - breakfast at 9 ¼ to 10 - then a few minutes with my father then had Mr Washington - gave me his and Mr William Armitage’s, of Mirfield,  valuation at £5.5.0 per acre of the manure laid on the Shibden low meadows by Mr Carr - and a list of the Staups rents and told me that Stocks was going to buy land of Joseph Wilkinson to build a public house on the corner of land between the new Northowram and Lower brea roads - told SW to be on the look after this matter and invent some of getting over Stocks - talked to SW about Gill and the yew-trees wood baring business - and told him SW- to measure and mark off the 3500 yards of stone sold to SF- that I might know what part of the wood was in my own hands and what part contained the stone sold to F-  SW- says it will be difficult nobody knowing where the stone will run - own  that for one D.W. sold another will be spoiled -I said the £700 paid by SF- would not repay me for the damage done - I will make no allowance for ruttle in future but sell a certain plot of ground contain what stone it may – SW- much approved this plan - saying he had nothing but trouble about allowance for ruttle and nobody was ever satisfied - Left him with A- at 11 - wrote the above of today - sealed my letter sent by George at 11 ½ to ‘Monsieur L. Gaudin, Topographe,  à Genève en Swisse post paid’  and off to Halifax at 11 50 A-being with Miss Dyson of Willowhall who had just called on her - went down the old bank to Mr Parker’s office - both he and Mr A- there the latter gave me his opinion of the Low house and knowle top coal leas (joint property) and the former said he was just writing the letters about trespass committed by the hunters - advised my putting a board up at the toll bar - told him to consider how to word the notice given - he and Mr A- both for my confining my action to one or 2 of the hunters - Justly fixed on Messrs. Jeremiah Dyson and John Carr - I forget who had applied for Northgate but Mr. P- said it was let - then to District Bank in George street - Mr. Mackean the manager very civil and a well-behaved nice person to deal with - pleased with him so took his notes for both A-‘s bills Hinscliffe’s at 2 months due on the 26th instant for £30 (indorsed only by himself) and Patterson at 2 months due on the 20th instant for £100.13.0 indorsed by himself and Messrs. Briggs and sons and one more others - I ought to have taken more notice - McK- said their banker was to have been the 1st of the new banks opened but they had some difficulty in getting the premises - take the small house and shop behind and pay £80 per annum to Sutcliffe the spirit merchant now occupying Northgate house - said I was going to build and should by this time 12 months have a capital situation to let for which should have many applications - thought I, the end house of my 5 new houses will surely be as well worth £80 per annum as Sutcliffe’s house and shop in George Street - then at Whitley’s - Gell’s Itinerary of Ithaca published at £2.18.0 in 1807 Booth would let me have for 20/. said I would think about it as well, as about Fergusons Roman Republic 5 volumes 8vo. for 35/. (published at 3 guineas?) - then  at Greenwoods - to come at 1pm on Monday - home up the new bank at 1 35 - wrote the last 18 lines till 2 10 then went down to Mr Bradley - he had been upon the house top and ordered the glazier about a new lead gutter - the glazier and thatchier I had seen just before going to Halifax the former said the new gutter would cost a shilling per stone more than the old lead would see for, and the new gutter would consequentially cost £3 or £4 - Mr B- to be here at 9 am on Monday, as I shall have Mallinson at 10 and Thomas Greenwood at 11

Throp and his man filled up Nedley park top far corner hedge etc and left off this afternoon till sent for again -

to give me a rough idea about Northgate and my future building plan that I may know what to say to Thomas G- just hinted to Mr B- that the end of the house of the 5 new ones might be a good situation for a bank - yes! said Mr B- and for a new room - Mr B- has no doubt of my getting a good tenant for Northgate house if it was an Inn and thinks I should get it licensed - Joseph and John Mann had been in the house sometime when I went to them at 3 leaving Mr Bradley taking a rough sketch from the plan for the Northgate property - had 2 Manns 1st in the hall and afterwards in the north dining room till 5 - had the small plan of the estate down and they made me understand their plan about the coals§ - (dinner at 6 ¼) - coffee - ½ hour with my father till 8 ¾ - then sat talking - about ½ hour with my aunt till 10 10 - fine morning - from about 2 pm very wintery stormy afternoon - snow, large flakes, and rain and windy towards night - F42 ½° now at 10 ¾ pm - found cousin coming very gently in the course of the morning and put on linen for dinner

 § their plan is, supposing the water wheel to be put down at Tilly holm stile, to sink a pit in Charles Howarth’s paddock (no.139) no! said I say John Oates’s Croft (no.133a) which they agreed would do as well particularly if the pit mouth raised a little so as to get easily up the hill of the road ----- and driven up 2 heads from Tilly holm stile to this Pump-pit which they could do very well if they had a vent-hole in the corner of the Dolt (no.141) just behind my walk which vent-hole or chimney might be filled up again as soon as the Pump-pit was bottomed - they would then make Pump-pit not only a working pit as soon as bottomed (and the coal would sell the pits mouth at 7 ½ per corve or load) but a vent pit for Walker pit - and they would drive straight 2 heads from P. pit to Walker pit and all the coal above the Wakefield road and between the 2 pits would be pulled at Walker pit, and all the coal below the Wakefield road would be pulled at Pump-pit - and tho’ the coal at the latter would be a 1/2d. a corve cheaper (that it sell for a 1/2d. a corve less) than at the former, the difference would be gained in the pulling (say 110 yards to putt at W. Pit and 60 yards at

 SH:7/ML/E/17/0167

 P. pit) so that I should sell my coal to the takers of the colliery for as much at one pit as the other - I should by all means let the same people have both pits - to divide the concern would spoil both parts of it - would by all means have me sink a new pit 50 or 60 yards farther this way (eastwards) along the plantation top; for Holt’s plant of chambering the present Walker pit would be a serious detriment to the colliery - there would be all that level to spend i.e. it would be a serious pull up hill for the hurriers just at the last - besides it would be much better to leave a good barrier of coal all along on that side than I could at anytime stop Spiggs colliery and do as I liked - let all that face of coal stand covered with water, and throw on to Mr. Rawson what he would not like to have - Holt might depend upon it if I stopt Spiggs that the present Walker pit would stand a good depth in water  - (yes! and it has since occurred to me that others besides myself (John Oates and Hinscliffe’s son vid. p.    ) can stop Spiggs colliery in right of the deed from Wilkinson .:. those others might incommode me if they liked and obliged me to chamber the present Walker pit whether I wished it or not - therefore let nothing persuade me not to sink a new Walker pit as soon as this present one has served to get the remnant of coal at present loose and to find out the trespasses committed in my land - R- may have done a little Messrs. Walsh and Hinscliffe much more) the Manns convinced me that to drive 2 straight heads from Tilly holm stile to the present or a new Walker pit would not do - I should loose very little coal by it - it would be a long pull up hill from the bottom to the top - that is, as I understood it, I should only loose what coal would lie to the north west, i.e. Shibden hall side, of the drift driven from Tilly holm-stile to Walker pit - if so, the low land would be loosed but very little of the upper land and a vent hole would be wanting for driving up drifts - but by having a pit at Pump I should loose the whole sweep of coal lying on the Shibden hall side of Pump and upwards in the line parallel to the present old water head hold marked by a dotted red line going under the Conery houses - 2 pits better than one - could not pull over more than 5 colliers at Walker pit i.e. could not get the coal pulled up fast enough to employ more than 5 colliers (pickmen getting coal) and .:. 5 colliers would not get more than from 1 ½ to 2 acres per annum - could pull perhaps twice as much (if I liked and could find sale for it) at Pump pit - so that 1 pit could only sell from 1 ½ to 2 acres and 2 pits might double the quantity or more - could not get Joseph Mann to make even a rough guess at what might be bid for the coal at the letting - I said rails and everything would be found - the takers would only have to find rails for their buts of byroads - then said John Mann just at the last ‘well! there might be £150 per acre bid’ - said I rather quickly that wont do - the setting up the colliery will cost me from £1500 to £2000 - I ought to have 10 p.c. on this money and on £2000, 10 p.c. = £200 and if only 2 acres per annum are got I should only have £100 for the coal - and if 3 acres were got I should only have £250 for the coal, and to get even 3 acres I must have 2 pits - I must hear what Holt says - my chief questions to him must be How much can be sold per annum? at one pit and at 2 pits -  and will the coal fetch or will it be worth £150 per acre? on talking with Charles H- this morning, and saying I must have my dam at the top end of my brookage, in Godley Ing (no.14) or Wellroyde holme (no.16) he reminded me that the Spiggs water comes out so much below where my dam till be that that water can do me no good for the coal water -wheel - but that if I stop Spiggs colliery and raise the water to the top of the old Engine pit in Godley Ing then I shall get the benefit of the water to my dam and if I drive my wheel-goit as near as may be - dead level it will always stand full of water and be like a 2nd dam or reservoir to hold water when scarce in summer   that I had evidently best stop the Spiggs water and thus get it for my own double use - as it will then serve me for my coal wheel as well as for Mytholm mill - Surely I shall understand this matter tolerably by and by - this Tilly holme Loose will loose my Lower brea? and Wellroyde = 9a.1r.6o. and Wilkinson coal = 9a.3r.9p. and about ½ Tilly holm, ditto Dolt, and say all the land on this side Pump lane and George N-‘s 2 upper place fields numero 120 and 121 (and the plot of Dove house land on this side Pump Lane) - .:. the Land of mine loosed on this side the brook = about 122a.2r.2p.

 ½ Tille holm  10a.0.8 1/2p.

½ Dolt  3.14 ½

Low pump land suppose 1.0.0

Upper Pump land nos. 122,126 6.2.12

Ireland except ½ the Dolt 14.3.13

Denmkar 2 fields nos. 128, 129.    7.0.35

Upper Place 2 fields nos. 120, 121   6.2.7

Shibden upper land nos. 143, 127, 125, 123, 124, 144, 145, 146, 149, 150, 148, 151, 147 Conery woo dnad 158 connery Ing deficiencies of these two last nos. more than compensated by bits and corners of nos. 152, 154, and 159   38.1.33

 Shibden law land, nos. 1,2,3,4,5,6

= 8.0.34

26.1.37 = no. 12 Called Park

2.1.8 = no. 30 Hall wood adn my walk ditto no. 29° not noticed in the Reference

35.3.39

 12.2.2

Wellroyde land = 9.1.6

Coal purcahsed of J.W. = 9.3.9

.:. to say nothing of Lower brea the Tilley holme Loose will loose more 131.2.17

 Suppose the 2 Dovehouse fields = 6a.3r.12p.

i.e. the 2 Pump fields nos. 126, 122.

 to add to this above 131.2.17 are about 6 acres of coal supposed to be left in the Staups land 131.2.17+6 = 137.2.17 acres of coal loosed by Tilly holme Losse

 Suppose me to get only the coal on this side of the brook i.e. in Southowram there 112a.2r.2p. at 4 acres per annum = 122.2.2./4 = 28 yards + so that, if I live to be old, I may go on getting coal at 4 acre per annum long enough - nous verrons

 +6 acres in Staups land

Suppose I loose 130 acres of coal for £2000 and leave 15 acres of barrier = + 6 acres of Staups for barrier on that side 115 acres loosed for £2,000 worth £150 per acre to be paid for as got

115x150 = £17250

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Settlements of House Marvin: Imforis

Most of the lore in the upcoming series will be edited compilations of dozens of posts from the last two years. While there are some minor new details sprinkled throughout, I’ve attempted to post significant new information in a “Watch AU Fun Fact” post so you don’t have to read all of these HUGE posts to find them.

Other Posts in this Series:

Minor Settlements of House Marvin: Sallabaile • Kiltieve • Imforis • Glasbaile • Forest Ruins

Posts Related to this Series:

Regional Capital: Monacoil • Watch Locations: Rúnach Hold Outpost

Related Series: House Marvin Masterlist

In This Post:

Summary

Name Origin

History

Layout

Trivia

Additional Art

Summary

Imforis is a booming town on the road between Monacoil and Rúnach Hold in House Marvin. It is home to the Greenwood family, mostly Nora, Breas, Hank and Ellie

Name Origin

The town was originally named Imeall Foraoise, which roughly translates to “forest border/fringe,” referencing its proximity to the Western Forest. It’s name has been shortened over time to “Imforis.”

History

Imforis started out as nothing more than a few scattered dwellings along the edge of the Western Forest, mostly home to sap harvesters, herb growers, foragers, beekeepers, etc. The town was not well-off at all.

However, when The Watch became active, Imforis started seeing a lot of traffic to and from the Rúnach Hold. Since then, while the population hasn’t boomed per se, the trade has. More amenities became available and the population has slowly increased.

Since much of Imforis's growth has come from the volunteer efforts of Watchers that pass through, many of which would later settle in this village long-term, this has created a culture largely in favor of The Watch and its actions.

Layout

Imforis is still small and spread out, especially when compared to other towns that have prospered since the founding of The Watch, but when compared to their past state, the growth is striking. There wasn’t even an inn until the Watch started passing through. Instead of traveling to another town to attend school (or be taught by their parents), the children of Imforis were built a schoolhouse. The doctor is also new; before now, villagers had to rely on a herbalist who knew the plants of the forest for their medical care, and if things took a turn for the worst, it was either the nearest town or pray.

Most houses have small vegetable patches and either keep chickens or hunt in the forest. A large farm sprang up even more recently and well, they’re trying, but the proximity to the Western Forest can have weird effects on the animals (a note, be careful with eggs).

Many of the houses along the forest edge were built in the Feadhainn Era, and a few have managed to maintain the old architecture. However, most of the buildings in Imforis are either imperfect reconstructions of their original forms, or else simply rebuilt with modern architecture.

Trivia

Imforis was created by tumblr user @theshapeshifter100​

Additional Art

Town layout, created by tumblr user @theshapeshifter100​

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Shibden 2 June 1834

Monday 

7½

2½

Very fine, Fahrenheit 64º at 8½ - breakfast at 9.  Letter 3 pages 1st  page crossed from Miss Walker York, she wants some sleeves getting out of the cap-case. Writes in excellent spirits, delighted to hear of my aunt being  so much better and reconciled to my delaying till tomorrow, not sorry about our not having the silver handled knives but begs me to write to Richmond for the picture frames. 

Wrote and sent by Matthew at 11, 3 pages and 1st page crossed to ‘Miss Walker, Heworth Grange. York’ to say I would try to be with her at 7 tomorrow evening, should post it by Whitehalls and send back table screen and picture frame by the return chaise. Had so much to do, perhaps she had better not expect me till 8  - to let me have some cold boiled beef or cold roast loin or leg of mutton (not the leg), - too hot to eat hot meat.  

Said I should not send her note to Messrs Briggs till tomorrow because I wished her to send me a different one, for five instead of 3, would explain on seeing her - my aunt’s being so much better made me feel comfortable and at ease.  Told her to ask Doctor Belcombe for pills to be trusted in travelling, and how to make saline draughts as I thought of making a little excursion – then said no! perhaps she had better say nothing of excursionizing but merely ask for pills and leave me to say the rest. 

Wrote and sent note to Lowe the tailor, as from my father, ordering ½ gross of large crested buttons and small in proportion and an undress suit of livery (like mine) for Matthew, except that they were to be good, strong, black velveteen smalls, instead of trousers, of the same cloth as the jacket and waistcoat – sent at the same time my uncle’s crest dies for the buttons.  Wrote and sent note to Mrs Wilson to pay for Miss Walker’s bonnet lately done up.  

Then out with Pickels – to do up about the turnstile in Lower Brea wood at the top of the steep lane (new foot path) and to leave room for a gate to be set, so that a cart may get thro’ if necessary – to bur-wall up the shoot down of earth for the daisy bank.  To mend the wearing of the brook – and to do up the hut walk (merely clean it – no ashes to be laid on), and to bring down the pit hill from Greenwoods fold and that from Cunnery wood at 1/- per yard. 

Then with Mallinson – ordered the upper barn-floor + walling off with a brick-in-breadth (9 inches) wall on each side so as to make a good carriage house for 3 or 4 carriages – to raise the doors and make them open outside, to mend the pavement at the farm-yard doors and at the is-to-be coach house doors and to get on with Whiskum Bar-house.  

Came to my study at 1 – asleep ½ hour – wrote the above of today – afterwards with my aunt – contriving about her being carried up and down stairs.  

Giving orders to Charles Howarth what to do in my absence – name 5 weeks to them all – to wainscot the north parlour and make the low water closet fit to go to – to do up the little dressing room for me along side the upper kitchen chamber – then wainscot the passage to the low water closet, lay upper kitchen chamber floor, and get Whiskum bar-house done.  Dinner at 6 – coffee – Marian came and staid talking till after 9 – then with my aunt till 10½.  

Then till 12 20/.. wrote 3 pages and ends and under the seal to Mariana,  Leamington – very fine day – very hot Fahrenheit 69½º in my study now at 12 25/.. tonight.  Till one writing copies of letters to  Hammersley for passport to Mrs Hawkins for room and to Richmond for the picture frames  

Very kind letter to Mariana,  did not see why we should not meet as often as we could – she could not forever be indifferent to one whose attention and affection she would share largely with myself – she would see that Miss Walker had more merit than she might perhaps have been led to expect – as I heard they would be at Harrogate in August, should think nothing of the distance and would see Mariana then or afterwards as she liked best – mentioned our intention of being in London on Friday evening – my aunt just now so much better could leave her in comfort – I had strong feelings of good things in this world being still in store for Mariana - to cheer up etc etc – altogether a very kind comforting letter –

Reference Number SH:7/ML/E/17/0040

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1828 Dec., Tues. 30

5 40/60

11 20/60

Some time talking to Jno [John] etc. Goodish motion as of late yesterday and the day before. Another motion loose and largeish as if after a dose. Take treacle to my pudding every day – 

At my desk at 7 35/60 – wrote the following note to  “John Rawson Esquire, Ash grove, Elland” (and sent it to the post by Jno [John] a little before 9) 

“Dear Sir – I hear you are thinning your woods of some very nice young beeches and sycamores – I want about eight of each to plant out as single trees, and, if you can spare me so many, shall be very much obliged to you – I can send a couple of men and the cart any day you may have the goodness to name – I beg my compliments to Mrs. Rawson, and am, dear sir, very truly yours Anne Lister, Shibden Hall Tuesday 30 December 1828” – 

Breakfast at 7 55/60 in about 20 minutes – On considering over what William K– [Keighley] told me yesterday made the marginal observations and references on the margin of yesterday – William K– [Keighley] said Thomas G– [Greenwood] was losing by his hard wood (meaning oaks, sycamores, ashes, beeches, and suchlike) but gained by his mahogany and cabinet making – 

His better stick to what he understood – Not right to sell his wood at such a price as 15 1/2 d [pence] a foot – 6d [pence] for grower and everybody theirs to undersell, and lower prices – Must have lost by it – It was sold before he had got it away from here – The common price a pair of cart shafts oak 10/6 ash 9/. [shillings] 

Greenwood sells the latter at 7 /. [shillings] a pair – Many a man will not deal with him – If this widow woman’s husband had been living, he would have had nothing to do with him – When Greewood came for the wood, and I told him the other lot was about￡5, he said that was much higher valued then the other – There ought to be above 100 foot of wood for that price. Should not be more than 14d [pence] a foot – I suppose he calculated to make 1 1/2 per foot – William K– [Keighley] says he ought to have 5 percent for his money – and 1/2d [pence] a foot would do – 

Wrote the above of today – Then at my accents till 10 1/4 – William K– [Keighley] yesterday calculated the alder at the fish pond 5 feet at 13d [pence] = 5/5. 2 grained sycamore in hall lane 13 feet and 12 feet at 1/6 = 1.17.6 sycamore bottom of calf croft also 2 grained 6 feet and 5 1/2 feet at 15d [pence] = 13/9. Sycamore Well Royde fence between Ing and Brow, 5 feet at 15d [pence] = 6/3 Elm in a same hedge row 2 feet at 1/6 = 3/. [shillings] – 

Again looking over my accounts till 10 3/4 – Went out at 11, down to Mosey and his man taking up the railing in Charles Howarth’s field along the top of Lower Brook Ing wood and setting it 4 feet farther from the holly hedge – Ordered the about 9 yards of hedge cut down yesterday by William Keighley junior in mistake at the top of Lower brea wood and bottom of Well Royde crow to be double railed this afternoon and Mosey and his companion did it – 

The pruning and young oaks in Hall wood till 1, and then went to Throp and the 2 wallers planting in the Cunnery plantation – Sauntered about there and in the upper fields during the 55 minutes the men were at dinner – Went down about 2 3/4 and sent Jno [John] up with more oaks – Throp had then planted near 300 today – Except this Jno [John] did nothing for me today – William finish the little bit of clearing of the plantation that remained to be done – 

Then went along the walk and cut across the fields to Well Royde – Sauntered about there, then, went along the Northowram road to the end of it beyond Quarry house – Admire this road the view etc. and returned by Wellroyde – 

Had just got into Lower brook Ing at 4 1/2 when Jno [John] met me to say Mr. Waterhouse was coming – Hurried home – Sat 10 minutes in the little breakfast room – At 4 50/60 went up to dress came down at 5 1/4 – and sat talking – They drank tea and I had my dinner at the same time in the drawing room. Mr. W– [Waterhouse] gave me the account of the canal tonnage and of the stock and dividends – The cut up to H–x [Halifax] cost ￡600000 – Wont pay more than now (nine percent had yearly) these 7 or 10 years – Shares now worth 100 guineas percent ∴ [therefore] pays 3 1/2 percent on the investment – Mr. W– [Waterhouse] went away at 8 20/60 – 

Went upstairs for near 1/2 hour – Then came down – Sat talking – Wrote out from my father the contents in day works of the different fields my father occupies – Wrote the last 13 lines – Very fine mildish day – Went upstairs at 10 25/60

A striking proof of how very little influence I have with Marian occurred this evening – I have repeatedly observed that all the jesuitical party and all the knowing ones among the Roman Catholic priesthood feared nothing so much as emancipation – Hated Canning because he was for it – Looked up to Wellington as their champion against it – No impression made on Marian – 

Mr. Waterhouse happened casually to say this evening that his brother said all the well informed of the Roman Catholic clergy in Portugal dreaded nothing so much as emancipation and bringing the Roman Catholics more in contact with the protestants – I saw Marian was struck by this observation – I have just named it to her – She seems already more than 1/2 converted – 

Well! Said I, how often have I made similar observations in vain – You will come round at last – but I must not convert you – Oh! no said Marian you will never be to blame – True – I know none with whom my influence in all matters of opinion is so small as with my own  and only sister – 

Wrote the last 8 lines and had just done at 10 40/60 at which hour Fahrenheit in my room (52º and the wind very calm earlier in the evening) highish – Mr. W– [Waterhouse] mentioned Todd’s the great ready monday haberdasher’s shop in the city – 70 or 80 shopsmen – 

[sideways in margin] Speaking of the manor of Southowram, mentioned the circus of the waste near Joseph Hall’s said I had asked Mr. R– [Rawson] if he was tired of the manor, and he had answered it was worth ￡3000 to one – He gave ￡1000 for it – Mr. W– [Waterhouse] agreed he could not do better than take the same money for it again – I said if he let me consider too long I might change my mind, but I was a thousand for it now – 

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1839 Thursday 3 January

8 1/4

12

thick foggy damp morning Fahrenheit 42 1/2 ° inside and the same or rather more outside at 9 1/2 and breakfast in 25 minutes –

out at 10 – went by Charles Howarth’s to Lower brea – Mr George Robinson at home and we went to the meer – walked round it mentioned Mr Bull’s plan of new brook-course – he liked my idea of a new clow – advised a highish embankment at the top for a considerable distance against Mr Carr’s land and the brook-course widening at the wear – no notice taken by him of his wanting me to lay out money but mentioned the 2 fly wheels he had for the mill which he said I ought to pay for – left him at his own house and went forwards along the new road to Sunwood quarry –

there at 12 1/2 – all at dinner – thence to mark Hepworth’s to ask him to swap the older horse he bought for me and take the younger for a few days to cure him – he gives his 4 horses mash-meat 3 times a day – and thrashed chopped oat straw and a pack of beanmeal 24/. And a pack of thirds in a fortnights and the eat very little hay –

in returning a largish while at Sunwood quarry – Robert Mann and wiliam Lord and Jack green throwing the soil off the road and and walling up against the wood and stoning it – my cart arrived (returned) soon after me – Robert Mann fears the steam engine chimney will not answer – fears it is throttled about the damper- I annoyed and hopeless about it –

then to Lower Pit water wheel cabin – Joseph Mann and 2 getting the pump pipes out ready for setting – want allong Holt thinks of employing Rowbottom to do it – then to Listerwick – Booth there came home with him by way of the meer – he had got Greenwood’s bills settled and received the £1.8.5 1/2 balance due to me includeing only six months rent = £20 rent for the North gate land – a 2d 1/2 year = £20 will be due 2 Febuary next – Greenwood himself mentioned £40 to be paid now but I hed written down only £20 – told Booth he must tell Greenwood he should call for it after the 2nd Febuary – this was inadvertance on my part – the road wants making along Saint Anne’s  Street at North gate opposite the casino – and the cottage lights want walling out – walling cannot be done under 26/. or 27/. a rood at least – the wall would block the whole front of the 2 houses built facing my land – 7 yards high and about 14 yards of frontage here will be therefore 14 roods of walling and much more is required – the stuff to be brought away from the road will be worth 4d a yard filled and 14d a yard carting here to the back lodge gates –

to go to Halifax with Booth tomorrow to see about these things – when Booth and I got back here found Mark Hepworth come – in the stable with him after Booth went away from 5 3/4  to after 6 – Hepworth thought I had over dosed the horse with salts – no! explained – poor mark no theory-man – all his knowledge practice – George farmer to take the horse to Marks early tomorrow morning Mark to keep him till Monday and to exchange the other horse after Preston fair a week or two hence – this Mark said would not cost much he could easily exchange him –

came in at 6 1/4 -dressed – dinner at 6 35/.. –

Ann either poorly or wrong or both  I said littl or nothing but seemed to sleep while she cried after after dinner   how melancholy   I must make the best I can of it –

upstairs 1/2 hour before coffee – counted my rents  coffee before 9 – then wrote all the above of today till 9 1/2 –

Mr George Robinson told me this morning Turner’s were making a road from the quarry down thro’ Flather’s land into the occupation road – he should not like law about – thought they had a right – I doubted this – he said he would consult the proprietors of the adjoining land – the Macaulays, trustees of Mr Armitage etc – I said my share was very small but I would pay my share of any expence that might be incured to protect a right – the bit of ground I want to mend my road at the bottom belongs to Hardcastle not to Mr George Robinson as I supposeed – he agreed that if I offered 3/. a yard for the ground and the value of the old dry walled building it would be enough –

had just written so far at 9 35/.. – Ann went to bed before 10 and left me reading the paper –

came upstairs at 10 1/2 at which hour Fahrenheit 44° inside and 45° outside my study – highish wind- fair but damp and windy all day –

George Robinson thought Mr Bull’s new brook-course would have cost £300!

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Thursday 24 January 1833

6 3/4

12 3/4

L  U  U  U

made my fire – hard frost – fine morning – Fahrenheit 45º in my room (good fire) at 8 5/.. and 24º at 8 1/4 a.m. just put outside my window – breakfast at 8 20/.. (not ready before) – with my father and some little time talKing to marian 

came to my room at 9 3/4 – Let[ter] 3 pp.[pages] and ends (comfortable) from M- [Mariana] (Lawton) – her going to Leamington delayed till the middle of next weeK with mr. L- [Lawton]  Thomas has got his clothes – has advanced him £4 – 10/.[shillings] a weeK board wages enough – wh[a]t the L-s [Lawtons] allow their servants – their Keeper will pay Thomas his, if I liKe – to direct to him at Lawton to the care of the gardener – nothing yet settled about Watson’s leaving M- [Mariana] the rector wants to give a weeKly lecture in the Sunday school – asKs my opinion – concludes with ‘your letters do me a vast of good, they comfort me in all ways, but in one particularly which I will talK about in my next – now I have no time for more than that I am always yours mariana’ – this is as it should be   the comfort is of course on the friendship subject  and it ought to be a comfort to her to have such as mine is capable of being and I hope will be –

out (after seeing my aunt) at 11 5/.. down the walK to the old brooK-course – the filling up nearly done – some time talKing to Jonathan mallinson – 22 years since the last payment was made for the upper brea water – then by the Pinnel to Southolm – the new mistal very convenient and will Keep the barn up, bring a good high prop – Hemingway not at home – thence up the wood to mr. Freeman’s (Brier Lodge) – wanted to see mr. F- [Freeman] about my intended new road along Jno.John Bottomley’s brow – waited about an hour – at last he came – will mention the thing on Saturday to some of the townsmen on Saturday come to Shibden and let me Know the result on Monday or Tuesday about 3 p.m. – said it ought to be 20 feet wide – I thought then that it would cost near £500 to complete it –

at F-s [Freeeman’s] from 1 10/.. to 2 20/.., then bacK by Southowram wood and across to Sowden’s, seeing some peeled oaK wood standing close above fit for railing – Inquired of mrs. Sowden – found it was yet to sell – sat 10 minutes with her – they have turned the stairs, and made the house much more comfortable than across into the Brighouse road and to yew trees and direct to Lidgate at 3 10/.. just as they (miss w- [Walker] and miss Rawson) had sat down to dinner –

sat there chiefly tête à tête with miss w- [Walker] (and a short while ditto with miss R- [Rawson] upstairs in her room) till 6 10/.. – miss w- [Walker] much as usual – wished me to stay all night, but I really could not – why should I sacrifice time and sleep oftener than I can well help  she seems getting worse  and will soon  I fear be quite beside herself  she fears evil spirits at night and dare not sleep poor soul her mental misery must be great  feeling as she says  it is all over  she has no hope of being saved –

home at 6 40/.. – dinner at 7 – Dodgson came before 8 and staid till 9 – read him his lease which he would have signed then but said he had better come again when we have someone from mr. ParKer’s as witness – he mentioned the straw he had bought of Kearton – the rats were eating it, and he could not consume it now – said I had confidence in him that he would farm well, and therefore he might fo as he liKed about the straw – sell it off or not – mentioned having let ParK farm to Greenwood and that he would cover it all with manure, and I had therefore given him leave to agree with PicKersgill for the hay stacK and let it be sold off or not – he thinKs my intended road will not be of much use to Southowram and is evidently against my maKing it – thought it would be better for my land to wind under Bairstow, and open into ParKfarm wellfield –

went into the little room at 9 and sat talKing (or latterly asleep) till 10 – came to my room at 10 5/.. – wrote 1 1/3 page to Captain Sutherland – dated this evening – ‘Dear sir – I am sorry to say I do not thinK miss Walker’s health improving; and the sooner she has first rate medical advice the better- nothing could be more Kind a judicious than mrs. Sutherland’s letter which arrived on Monday; and I am only anxious for you to hasten this journey as much as possible – I see as much of miss walKer as my own engagements will permit; and I am sure you will believe that my anxiety about her is very great – she told me this morning, she could not go on long as she does at present, and seems herself aware that time ought not to be lost – I had fixed to take her to YorK as today, but gave it up in consequence of mrs. Sutherland’s letter – It is desirable to get off from here – no friend could be more Kindly attentive and judicious than miss Rawson who has promised to stay till your arrival; but she is hardly old enough to be left without the assistance of some more experienced person; and I lament that it is not in my power to be constantly with them – I trust mrs. Sutherland will be as little uneasy as possible as I have really great hope that care and sKilful medical treatment will by and by do all that is required – I am anxious, and shall be very glad, to see you, and, with my Kind regards to mrs. Sutherland, believe me, dear sir, very truly yours A Lister’ –

then wrote 1 1/4 page to Dr. B-[Belcombe] dated tomorrow to beg he would desire the druggist to send no more medicine and pay the bill and let me Know the amount that it might be included in the money I should have to remit him – ‘Soon after writing to you last my own ideas on the subject became clearer; and, in the course of a few days, I hope to have resigned my charge into the hands of those whose nearness of connection makes them fittest to take it – But do not notice this – and in the mean time for friendship’s saKe to me, tell me what you thinK I might safely give as a composing draught – she dreads the hours from 12 to 3 at night, and I would gladly give something, if I Knew what, to procure sleep, and Tranquillize the mind’ – my own plans still unfixed as ever – may not be able to get off for some weeKs ..... ‘Ever my dear Steph very truly yours A Lister’ – writing till 12 5/.. – very fine frosty day –

[misslisterkeepsajournal]

1826 Wednesday 3 May

7 50/60

12

Two at once last night and one this morning Pi’s [Mariana’s] cousin came just after she got up as is signified by the two dots after the @ a manner of expressing it I have never used before - 

Went out at 9 1/2 - down the old bank to Mr Parker’s office - M- [Mariana] walked about the court there during the 20 minutes I was speaking to Mr Parker give instructions for the lease between Mrs Lees and us, and for letting the land, handbills to be posted immediately - Thomas Greenwood had already applied to take it - Told Mr Parker to make the bargain he could but not to take less than £6 per days work for the land and £20 for the buildings stabling, barn, cowhouse, and room with a chamber over it convertible into whatever would let best - I had with apparent inadvertence mentioned Mr James Briggs as my intended steward - on begging Mr Parker not to name this, as I had not determined, he offered his own services - I said I had already thought of him but my father wished us to have Mr James Briggs and I was anxious to oblige him, but I had considered of it - Mr Parker thought one percent on the income received would be enough -

M- [Mariana] and I returned by Northgate (but did not go in) to see where we think of building perhaps a house and shop on the site of the old cottage - sauntered to the top of Broad street - walked leisurely, and got back at 11 - talking all the way over the merits of Messrs Parker and James Briggs we both inclined to the former my father would not interfere with him at all he was not poor a heinous crime in a steward and of which we suspect Mr Briggs

Breakfast at 11 50/60 - at 12 1/4 we went out into the fields. James Sykes jobbing about - making up the stiles into Lower brea wood to turn asses - the gas tarring to be finished in a couple of hours - the hogshead to be sent back this afternoon, the man having been here yesterday to say they really could not spare it longer - gave him half a sovreign saying it was 5/. for the gas tar and 5/. for their civility in letting us have the cask so long, the man having been for it before -

Were walking on the terrace when Mrs William Priestley and her cousin Miss Hodson of Carlisle called - Did not recollect Miss Hodson on first entering the room (had forgotten or did not think of her coming) and the lady seemed annoyed - apologized as well as I could, on account of being nearsighted etc. M- [Mariana] thinks the William Priestley’s carriage in very bad taste - very vulgar - dark green body, red-drab cloth with glaring yellow and drab face and not light coloured yellow leather make a bad mixture - Staid down talking - then came upstairs and from about 4 1/4 to 5 3/4 wrote out the journal of Saturday and Sunday and the first 13 lines of Monday - Dressed - dinner at 6 20/60 - tea and coffee at 8 1/4 - Afterwards, till 10, wrote out the remainder of Monday and the 1st 16 lines of yesterday - very fine day but cold, and sunless. Came up to bed at 10 1/2 - O..

Reference: SH:7/ML/E/9/0095

[woollyslisterblog]

1834 June Monday 2nd (part two)

busy day bossy everyone about on the estate and then sanguine and bossy letter to Mariana telling her how she should feel

then out with Pickels - to do up about the turnstile in the Lower brea wood at the top of the steep lane (new footpath) and to leave then for a gate to be set, so that a cart may get through if necessary - to bur - wall up the shoot down of earth from the Daisy bank to mend the wearing of the brook - and to do up the hut walk (merely clean it - no ashes to be laid on), and to bring down the pit hill from Greenwood’s field and that from the Conery wood at 1/. per yard -

then with Mallinson - ordered the upper barn-floor and walling off with a brick-in-breadth (9 inches) wall on each side so as to make a good carriage house for 3 or 4 carriages - to raise the doors and make them open outside, to mend the pavement at the farmyard doors and at is-to-be coach house doors and to get on with Whiskum bar-house -

came to my study at 1 - asleep 1/2 hour - wrote the above today - afterwards with my aunt - contriving about her being carried up and downstairs - giving orders to Charles Howarth what to do in my absence - namely 5 weeks to them all - to wainscot the north parlour and make the low water closet fit to go to - to do up ssthe little dressing room for me alongside the upper kitchen chamber - then wainscot the passage to the lower water closet, lay kitchen chamber floor, and get Whiskum bar-house done -

dinner at 6 - coffee - Marian came and staid talking till after 9 - then with my aunt till 10 1/2 - then till 12 20/60 wrote 3 pages and ends and under the seal to Mariana Lymington - very fine day - very hot - F-69 1/2° in my study now at 12 25/60 tonight – till one writing copies of letters to Hammersley for passport to M[iss] W[alker] Hawkins for room and to Richmond for the picture frames

very kind letter to Mariana -said not see why we should not meet as often as we could – she could not for ever be indifferent to one whose attention and affection she would share largely with myself - she would see that Miss Walker had more merit than she ought perhaps have been led to expect - as I heard they would be at Harrogate in August, should think nothing of the distance and would see Mariana there or afterwards as she liked best - mentioned our intention of being in London on Friday evening - my aunt just now so much better could leave her in comfort - I had strong feeling of good things in this world being still in store for Mariana - to cheer up etc etc - altogether a very kind comfortable letter -

[creepykingdom]

VILLAINS Hits Theaters This Friday, September 20th

Synopsis:

Mickey and Jules are lovers on the run, headed southbound for a fresh start in the Sunshine State. When their car dies after a gas station robbery, they break into a nearby house looking for a new set of wheels. What they find instead is a dark secret and a sweet-as-pie pair of homeowners who will do anything to keep it from getting out.

Written & Directed by | Dan Berk & Robert Olsen

Starring | Bill Skarsgård, Maika Monroe, Jeffrey Donovan & Kyra Sedgwick

Co-Produced by | BRON Studios, Star Thrower Entertainment, Creative Wealth Media Finance & The Realm Films

Runtime:

89 Minutes

The film is Rated R by the MPAA

# # #

OPENING WEEKEND THEATERS

NEW YORK AREA

Essex Crossing (129 Delancey St, New York, NY 10002)

E-Walk Stadium 13 (247 W 42nd St, New York, NY 10001)

Sheepshead Bay 14 (3907 Shore Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11235)

Court Street (106 Court St, Brooklyn, NY 11201)

Kaufman Astoria Stadium 14 (35-30 38th St, Astoria, NY 11101)

Hadley Theatre Stadium (1000 Corporate Ct, South Plainfield, NJ 07080)

Commerce Center Stadium (2399 US-1, North Brunswick Township, NJ 08902)

Galleria Mall 16 (2001 South Rd, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601)

New Roc City Stadium 18 (33 Lecount Pl, New Rochelle, NY 10801)

Deer Park Stadium 16 (455 Commack Rd, Deer Park, NY 11729)

Westbury Stadium (7000 Brush Hollow Rd, Westbury, NY 11590)

Staten Island Stadium (2474 Forest Ave, Staten Island, NY 10303)

Lynbrook 13 (321 Merrick Rd, Lynbrook, NY 11563)

LOS ANGELES AREA

Foothill Towne Center Stadium 22 (26602 Towne Centre Dr, Foothill Ranch, CA 92610)

LA Live (1000 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015)

Irvine Spectrum 21 (500 Spectrum Center Dr, Irvine, CA 92618)

University Town Center Irvine 6 (4245 Campus Dr, Irvine, CA 92612)

Aliso Viejo Stadium 20 (26701 Aliso Creek Rd, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656)

Garden Grove 16 (9741 Chapman Ave, Garden Grove, CA 92841)

Ontario Palace Palace (4900 E 4th St, Ontario, CA 91764)

Long Beach Stadium 26 (7501 Carson Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90808)

Edwards South Gate Stadium (8630 Garfield Ave, South Gate, CA 90280)

Brea Stadium 22 (255 W Birch St, Brea, CA 92821)

ATLANTA, GA AREA

Mall of Georgia Stadium (3333 Buford Dr #3000, Buford, GA 30519)

Hollywood Stadium 24 @ North I-85 (3265 Northeast Expy, Chamblee, GA 30341)

Perimeter Pointe (1155 Mount Vernon Hwy NE, Atlanta, GA 30338)

AUSTIN, TX AREA

Westgate Stadium 11 (4477 S Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX 78745)

BALTIMORE, MD AREA

Waugh Chapel Stadium (1419 S Main Chapel Way, Gambrills, MD 21054)

UA Snowden Square Stadium 14 (9161 Commerce Center Dr, Columbia, MD 21046)

BOSTON, MA AREA

Independence Mall 14 (101 Kingston Collection Way, Kingston, MA 02364)

Solomon Pond 15 (591 Donald Lynch Blvd, Marlborough, MA 01752)

Fox Run Stadium 15 (45 Gosling Rd, Newington, NH 03801)

Fenway Stadium (201 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215)

BUFFALO, NY AREA

Transit Center 19 (6707 Transit Rd, Williamsville, NY 14221)

CHARLOTTE, NC AREA

Stonecrest At Piper Glen Stadium 22 (7824 Rea Rd, Charlotte, NC 28277)

Starlight Stadium (11240 N Tryon St, Charlotte, NC 28262)

CHICAGO, IL AREA

Lincolnshire Stadium 15 (300 Parkway Dr, Lincolnshire, IL 60069)

Cantera Stadium 17 (3835, 28250 Diehl Rd, Warrenville, IL 60555)

City North Stadium 14 (2600 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60647)

Webster Place 11 (1471 W Webster Ave, Chicago, IL 60614)

DALLAS, TX AREA

Galaxy Theatre Stadium (11801 McCree Rd, Dallas, TX 75238)

Fossil Creek Stadium (6100 N Fwy, Fort Worth, TX 76137)

DENVER, CO AREA

Continental 10 (3635 S Monaco Pkwy, Denver, CO 80222)

Meadows 12 (5313, 9355 Park Meadows Dr, Littleton, CO 80124)

Colorado Mills 16 (14500 W Colfax Ave, Lakewood, CO 80401)

West Village Stm 12 (14225 W Colfax Ave, Golden, CO 80401)

FRESNO, CA AREA

Fresno Stadium 22 (250 Paseo Del Centro, Fresno, CA 93720)

HOUSTON, TX AREA

Greenway Grand Palace Stadium 24 (3839 Weslayan St, Houston, TX 77027)

Houston Marq*e Stadium 22 (7620 Katy Fwy, Houston, TX 77024)

Lone Star 19 (24720 Tomball Pkwy, Tomball, TX 77375)

INDIANAPOLIS, IN AREA

Circle Center 9 (49 W Maryland St, Indianapolis, IN 46204)

Regal Cinemas Greenwood (461 Greenwood Park Dr S, Greenwood, IN 46142)

KNOXVILLE, TN AREA

Regal Pinnacle (11240 Parkside Dr, Knoxville, TN 37934)

LAS VEGAS, NV AREA

Red Rock Stm 16 (11011 W Charleston Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89135)

MIAMI, FL AREA

Oakwood 18 (2800 Oakwood Blvd, Hollywood, FL 33020)

South Beach Stadium 18 (1120 Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach, FL 33139)

Cypress Creek Station 16 (6415 N Andrews Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309)

NASHVILLE, TN AREA

Green Hills Stadium 16 (3815 Green Hills Village Dr, Nashville, TN 37215)

Opry Mills Stadium 20 (570 Opry Mills Dr, Nashville, TN 37214)

NEW ORLEANS, LA AREA

Grand Esplanade 14 (1401 W Esplanade Ave, Kenner, LA 70065)

NORFOLK, VA AREA

Macarthur Center Stm 18 (300 Monticello Ave, Norfolk, VA 23510)

ORLANDO, FL AREA

The Loop Stadium (3232 N John Young Pkwy, Kissimmee, FL 34741)

Winter Park Village Stadium 20 (510 Orlando Ave, Winter Park, FL 32789)

Waterford Lakes Stadium 20 (541 N Alafaya Trail, Orlando, FL 32828)

Pointe Orlando Stadium (9101 International Dr, Orlando, FL 32819)

PHILADELPHIA, PA AREA

Warrington Crossing Stadium 22 (140 Easton Rd, Warrington, PA 18976)

Riverview Plaza Stadium 17 (1400 S Christopher Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19147)

Oxford Valley Theater Stadium 14 (403 Middletown Blvd, Langhorne, PA 19047)

King of Prussia Stadium (300 Goddard Blvd, King of Prussia, PA 19406)

PORTLAND, OR AREA

Bridgeport 17 (7329 SW Bridgeport Rd, Tigard, OR 97224)

Movies on TV 16 (2929 SW 234th Ave, Hillsboro, OR 97123)

Cascade Stadium (1101 SE 160th Ave, Vancouver, WA 98683)

Santium Stadium (365 Lancaster Dr SE, Salem, OR 97301)

Fox Tower Stadium 10 (846 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR 97205)

RALEIGH / DURHAM, NC AREA

White Oak Stadium (1205 Timber Drive East, Garner, NC 27529)

North Hills Stadium (4150 Main at North Hills St, Raleigh, NC 27609)

Crossroads Stadium 20 (501 Caitboo Ave, Cary, NC 27518)

RICHMOND / PETERSBURG, VA AREA

Commonwealth 20 (5001 Commonwealth Centre Pkwy, Midlothian, VA 23112)

SACRAMENTO, CA AREA

Natomas Marketplace Stadium 16 (3561 Truxel Rd, Sacramento, CA 95834)

Laguna Village 12 (8755 Center Pkwy, Sacramento, CA 95823)

SAN ANTONIO, TX AREA

Huebner Oaks Stm 14 (11075 I-10, San Antonio, TX 78230)

SAN DIEGO, CA AREA

San Marcos Stadium 18 (1180 W San Marcos Blvd, San Marcos, CA 92069)

Mira Mesa Stadium 17 (10733 Westview Pkwy, San Diego, CA 92126)

SAN FRANCISCO, CA AREA

Hacienda Crossings Stadium 20 (5000 Dublin Blvd, Dublin, CA 94568)

Berkeley 7 (2274 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704)

SEATTLE, WA AREA

Everett Mall Stadium 16 (1402 SE Everett Mall Way, Everett, WA 98208)

Auburn Stadium 17 Theatres (1101 Outlet Collection Way, Auburn, WA 98001)

Barkley Village Stadium 16 (3005 Cinema Pl, Bellingham, WA 98226)

Meridian 16 (1501 7th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101)

Thornton Place Stadium (316 NE Thornton Pl, Seattle, WA 98125)

SYRACUSE, NY AREA

Destiny USA Stadium 19 (9586 Destiny USA Dr, Syracuse, NY 13204)

TAMPA, FL AREA

Hollywood Stadium (1993 Main St, Sarasota, FL 34236)

Citrus Park Stadium 20 (7999 Citrus Park Town Center Mall, Tampa, FL 33625)

Park Place Stadium 16 (7200 US Hwy 19 N, Pinellas Park, FL 33781)

WASHINGTON DC AREA

Ballston Quarter Stadium (Ballston Quarter, 671 N Glebe Rd, Arlington, VA 22203)

Springfield Town Center (6859 Springfield Mall, Springfield, VA 22150)

Gallery Place Stadium 14 (701 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20001)

Virginia Gateway Stadium (8001 Gateway Promenade Pl, Gainesville, VA 20155)

Majestic Stadium 20 (900 Ellsworth Dr, Silver Spring, MD 20910)

Westview Stadium 16 (5243 Buckeystown Pike, Frederick, MD 21704)

[wolfy58]

1835 February Monday 16

7 10/..

12 10/..

no kiss raining at 11 25/.. and very high wind when Marian went last night and got off by the mail for Market Weighton - rain this morning but fair and a little sun and F44° at 8 50/.. till which hour looking over Freeman’s stone-lease (yew-trees wood) and reading last night’s paper - breakfast at 8 3/4 - Had Mrs Dewhirst 5 or 6 minutes to ask leave to cart across the land with and for their skins, and if all were not quite done, that I would allow them (the skins) to stay in the pits a week or 2 beyond the time (1 May) if necessary - gave leave about the carting but expressed my wish for Mrs Dewhirst and her son to be off the premises by the 1st of May, and said that I did not like having skins left at all on the premises, but I would see about it - would speak to Pearson - did not wish to inconvenience any one unnecessarily - then had Jonathan Mallinson of Mytholm to say his son of the Black horse Inn, Halifax, would be glad to take Mytholm farm - did not want the buildings - would evidently have been glad to have them let off to Dewhirst - but I said Dewhirst was not respectable enough for me and I would not therefore have him at whatever rent he could offer - mentioned my intention of building a new public house by the Lower brea road side and keeping 9 or 10 DW for it - Jonathan sure it would not answer - said I was willing to put this plan off, if, his son and I agreed about the farm - but I must have a lease to my mind, and rent £65 per annum - well said Jonathan you must do the best you can for us - but I think my son will take the farm - Mr Samuel Freeman and his oldest son (Hanson aetatis 17) then came and I left Jonathan Mallinson Samuel Freeman gave me a letter to read from his nephew in London proving that Haigh and Aspinall etc. were selling stone in London for less than prime cost - my quarry in upper place land may pay if there be no competition, and is worth 6/. per yard - I said if all this was the case, and the stone worth no more, which was considerably less than I expected, I had no objection after putting the quarry up publickly to let, to leave it standing as it is and not work it at all till the stone was likely to pay better – this is not however I think what Samuel Freeman wishes – the quarry is not yet in a state fit to put up for letting – offered to leave them the accounts Debit and Credit but I said these might be given me on settling, and I would merely keep the summary given on a loose bit of paper

then talked over the matter of Joseph Gill – Samuel Freeman said he had not let the baring to Boothroyde but to Walker to whom Boothroyde gave 2/6 for giving up the job – Samuel Freeman will attend at the Sess[io?]ns room on Wednesday morning to prove this – much annoyed about the thing – I spoke of building at Northgate and having stones down gainly from my own quarry – S.F. said it would furnish me flags, slates, wallstones, all but door-posts, and nothing thick enough for thoose yet found – said I should think of favouring my own quarry by letting carts come down Whiskum road – must settle on what terms – then had the large plan down – said I would never consent to a new road from Brookfoot along the Pump side of the valley – S.F. said then he was sure the thing would not be attempted –

then had Pickells in to explain about Gill – S.F. and his son went away about one – then looking at the large plan till had Mr. Bradley at 1 1/2 – Mr. Parker cannot find the Saleplan of the Northgate property – thinks S.Washington must have it – Room for 5 new houses – had seen Greenwood who had mentioned his having having Northgate and offered Mr. Bradley 1/2 the house – that said I would  be too much rent – thought and talked of accommodating Mr. Bradley for £20 per annum letting him have what was Mr. Scatchard’s office and the present low kitchen part – would build a square in the Sheep croft, opposite Northgate house which would be a good private house if not an Inn – then the glazier came – had Mr. Bradley giving him orders about the water closet pump, lead pipe in my aunt’s closet etc. and then examining the top of the house over north chamber to see how the drop came in – then had him at the dry bridge giving orders to Pickells till about 3 when sent Pickells off to Halifax about another summons for Gill and one for Boothroyde – then left Mr. Bradley with the glaziers (2 of them) and went out to Throp and his man who had planted out the Sycamores at the top of the daisy bank, and were getting up thorns at the bottom of the Hall croft – left them orders and at 4 10/.. off to Crow nest – Samuel Washington’s young man thinks the sale plan of Northgate was not sent to them – then to Cliff hill to meet Adney – met her just out of the gate and returned together slowly home at about 5 3/4  - Had Pickells – a summons could not be granted – Mr. Freeman himself, as purchaser of the stone must take out a warrant against each of the 2 men Gill and Boothroyde for stealing – dinner at 6 1/2  - coffee – with my father from 7 3/4  to 8 3/4  - the room so hot, I have felt bilious and not well ever since – wrote the whole of this journal of today – then 1/4 hour with my aunt till 10 – then wrote as follows to go early in the morning to ‘ Mr. Freeman, Brier Lodge, Southowram’ ‘Shibden hall – Tuesday morning 17 February 1835. Sir – I am sorry to have to inform you that, on Pickels’s application for a summons against Gill and Boothroyde, it was found, that this could not be granted, but that you must apply for a warrant against each of the 2 offenders and I shall therefore be much obliged to you to make the necessary application as soon as you can; and, if you want any assistance that my soliciters, Messrs. Parker and Adam, can afford, I beg you will be so good as apply to them, in my name – I am Sir, etc. etc. etc. A Lister’ Adney copied me the letter Mr. Samuel Freeman left with me this morning – from his nephew William Freeman chit chat respecting the stone under-selling system in London – enclosed this letter under cover, just writing on the back ‘ Mr. Freeman with Miss Lister’s best thanks’, and put this and my note in one envelope – wrote out French letter to Mr. Gandin Genève – and had just sealed my packet to ‘Mr. Freeman Brier Lodge Southowram’ at 11 1/2  at which hour F 46 1/2° - fine day –

[awhilesince]

Tuesday, 3 March 1835

7 35/..

11 20/..

no kiss rainy, very boisterous night and rainy boisterous morning – the wind roaring – but fair and sun at 8 1/2 at which hour Fahrenheit 41° –

out a little while Throp came at 8 1/2 and Wiliam K– (Keighley) at 9 – breakfast from 9 to 10 10/.. 10 minutes with my father and Marian till 10 20/.. – should have been out before this but a snow shower kept me in – fair at 10 1/2 and out with A– (Ann) and walked with her, on her way to Cliff hill, as far as German house in 25 minutes, and back at Lower brea wood in 1/4 hour – found William Keighley and his 3 men there felling – Throp and his man holing there – William K– (Keighley) and I pruning and one of his men cut down within 6 inches of the ground the hedge against Tilley holm on the low side of the stile – the men went to dinner at 1 – and I walked about the fields – looked at the Medley park fences etc – 

home at 2 10/.. and found William K– (Keighley) and one man who felled 2 sycamores behind the barn and pruned a little and then a little before 4 in a smartish shower all went to Cowgate wood and felled and boughed all the firs except 2 scotch at the end 6 or 8 goodish front  larches – John came and took away one good load of 15 or 18 trees which we loadened for him – all felled and done by 5 1/4 – John had had Charles and James Howarth helping him to loaden timber out of Lower brea wood in the morning – I walked about the fields and came in at 6 – 

A– (Ann) had returned from Cliff hill at 5 – her aunt very glad to see her and asked her to dine – Charles and James Howarth in the north passage this afternoon about putting the passage inner door up – Richard Woodhead and his son railing in Tilley holm as yesterday – Had Abraham Hemingway to beg a couple of good larches out of Southholm wood – or if he could not beg to buy them – said I should not fell any or do anything at the wood till May – hoped he would keep trespassers out of the wood – dinner at 6 1/2 – Had Greenwood’s man about Commode for bound newspapers – he would have me have doors to it! and I decline this – will consult Mr Bradley – 

coffee – an hour with my father and Marian till after 9 – 1/2 sheet full (kind letter), franked by Mr James Stuart Wortley from Lady Vere Cameron (Whitehall) Donald naturally a moderate Tory – not so ultra as the Stuarts – his Scotch friends radicals – his uncle the whig speaker – therefore Donald and therefore Vere herself no great intermeddlers in politics –

wrote all but the 1st 3 lines of today till 9 3/4 – then with my aunt till 10 20/.. at which hour Fahrenheit 40 3/4° very wild rough day – high wind – snow showers and rain before and till 10 – and in the afternoon between 3 and 4 smartish shower of rain – fair afterwards but high wind, and rainy night at 11 p.m.

reference number: , SH:7/ML/E/17/0173,SH:7/ML/E/17/0174

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Tuesday 7 February 1839

7 10

12 20

no kiss I in bed an hour before A- last night and nearly as long the night before – fine softish morning and F35° at 8 – out at 8 10 – with Robert Mann and Samuel and Jack (the latter went home ill about ten) doing up about the Lowpool - breakfast at 9 to 10 A- read French – then stood reading in my dressing room Wallace’s mechanics pocket guide, till out again at 10 ¾ - at the top of the house – Booth and his men taking the slates off the present water closet part to make a lead gutter up against the tower – told them to keep the brick throughs from closing up the air-passage between the stone wall and the brick-lining – then with Robert M- and Samuel set them to take up 5 largeish sycamores (3 of them lopped – taken from out of Lower brea wood a year or 2 ago) – and they planted 4 of them this afternoon in Greenwood’s field over against the Lodge road nearish at no. great distance from to the glen bridge – (John took them in the cart) and one over against the gate into the wood – left them at 3 ½ and went to Cliff hill for A- sat 35 minutes with Mrs. AW- very civil and glad to see me and in good spirits 35 minutes till 4 50 before A- came – off home in ¼ hour – met SW- told him about his being proxy for our votes for the guardians of the poor – walked leisurely home – A- had been all the day (off from here on horseback at 11) at the school siding and doing 1 thing or other – Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson laid up in the influenza – and A- did not see them – at home a little before 6 – stood out talking to the 2 Manns till 6 ½ - told them to give me their plan for the Inclined plain and platform – and to level for the necessary drifts to carry off the water – (the gardener and Joseph Booth preparing for the orchard all today and yesterday and getting up and away the thorn hedge to under the upper Conery top wall) – dressed – dinner at 7 – A- read French coffee at 8 and wrote all the above of today till 8 40 – Note from Mr. Parker to say the £1000 ready anytime – but if not wanted this week Mr. P- proposes Wednesday next week for the payment if that will suit me – sat in my study reading Wallaces’

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mechanics guide till 9 ¾ (article Steam engines) – then sat with A- reading aloud parts of tonights’ newspaper and looking at maps till 11 at which hour F37° fine day –

[thewatchau]

The Overnight Defence - The Greenwoods

Author’s Note: First in a three part series, in honour of the Overnight Watch’s anniversary. Not many of my characters were actually that affected, either they were in a major city, were lucky enough to sleep through it, or had other problems on their minds

Up first, a direct sequal to this prompt!

Bard’s Note: Thanks to @theshapeshifter100 for this incredible submission! Trigger warnings typical of the Overnight Defense abound here, guys, plus a few others: implied kidnapping/mind control, building fires, getting lost in the woods, etc. Let me know if there’s a TW I missed; this one is intense (which I LOVE but I want people to stay safe). 

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Hank was having a wonderful night. The house hadn’t been this full in a while and having managed to wrangle both his siblings home at the same was damn near a miracle.

He, his Ma and his Da had gotten everything ready and all the walls were covered in evergreens from the forest, holly, yew and spruce took up most of it as well as some brightly coloured herbs. There were celebrations in Imforis proper that they’d go to later, but for now it was him, his family and Fiona, who was on her way to being family.

Her curly red hair stood out among the dark haired Greenwoods as she talked animatedly to his Ma, Nora. They got along pretty well, with his ma often going to the bakery Fiona worked to try her bread experiments. Right now it seemed Nora was giving Fiona some ideas about herbs to try.

His Da, Breas, was leaning back in his rickety old chair, having half a conversation with Hank, but the two of them would trail off to take in the atmosphere.

Hank noticed Bran looking outside, and followed his gaze through the closed shutters. The angle of the moonlight coming in was a bit different, and Mags hadn’t come back in yet.

Hank raised an eyebrow and stood up, Bran joining him a few seconds later. They only time they ever seemed to be on the same page was when it concerned Mags.

“Hank?” Fiona asked, noticing him get out of his chair.

“Mags isn’t back yet.”

“Hank,” his Ma sighed. “She’s a grown woman now, she can look after herself.”

“Just, let me look, alright?”

“If it makes you feel better,” Nora shook her head and returned to her conversation with Fiona.

Bran had already made it to the door and opened it, seemingly unconcerned by the cold. Hank at least grabbed a cloak and put on his boots before leaving.

The night was still and cloudless, the moon shining down onto the frost covered grass. Bran was already squatting down, looking at it.

“She and Rena went into the woods.”

“Sorry?” Hank walked over, and looked down and Bran pointed out the frosty prints. Boot prints and small fox prints, leading right into the Western Forest. “Maybe she went to visit the foxes?”

“Maybe, they’ll all be awake now,” Bran straightened up and looked at the woods. Hank followed his gaze, and felt a shudder go down his spine.

“Something’s not right,” was it him, or were the trees darker than usual?

Bran looked for a bit longer. “We need to look for them.”

“I’ll let Ma and Da know,” Hank turned to go back to back inside, only for Breas to slam open the door and rush out. “Da?”

“You found Mags?” he asked, casting around. “No?”

“She’s gone into the woods.”

Breas cursed under his breath, repeatedly, he gestured in the general direction of Imforis as he muttered, and Hank followed his gaze.

He could see the glow of the bonfire from here. That was odd, they never usually could see it from here…

No

Nonononononono.

Imforis was burning.

Nora and Fiona sped out of the house, stomping their boots onto their foot properly and throwing on cloaks. Breas clapped his hand onto Hank’s shoulder, snapping him back.

“Your ma and I are going to help in Imforis. Come with us or look for Mags, your choice.”

With wide eyes Hank looked between the glowing horizon and the dark woods. Bran was already walking towards the woods, his Ma and Da were beginning to walk down the road, and Fiona was waiting on his decision.

He swallowed, and turned to follow Bran into the forest.

“Bran!”

He could almost feel him sigh with irritation, but his little brother slowed down for him, ponytail swishing as he looked behind him. There was a crunching of frost as Fiona ran to catch up.

“Can you follow the tracks?” Hank asked Bran, who shrugged.

“I can try,” with that he turned on his heel and began to walk into the forest.

“Don’t step on the tracks,” Hank warned Fiona before following his brother.

“I can’t even see them, but okay,” Fiona followed, hitching up her skirt as she walked.

The forest was thick, thicker than he was used to. He swore it wasn’t this dense yesterday. That log wasn’t there either, or those mushrooms.

“What the fuck?” Bran came to a sudden stop. The light had abruptly dropped, leaving all three of them blind for a few minutes as they adjusted.

“Lost them already?”

“Shut up.”

The figure of Bran crouched down again, and Hank and Fiona blinked rapidly to get their eyes to adjust faster.

“There’s no tracks,” Bran announced.

“How can there be no tracks?!” Hank struggled not to burst out. “Come back and look again!”

“I am looking! They stop here!”

“Let me look!” Hank stomped his way over and crouched down to have a look. Bran sighed irritably and stood up as Hank came to the same conclusion.

He could clearly see the intents in the frost that were Mags and Rena, but Bran was right, they just stopped. There weren’t any left or right, they didn’t appear to backtrack or jump anywhere. They just stopped.

“Bran where are you going?” Fiona suddenly cried, and Hank whipped his head in time to see Bran wandering off.

“What are you doing?! We need to stick together!” he sprung up and ran to grab his brother by the arm.

“I’ll be fine,” Bran snapped, yanking his arm out of Hank’s grip. “You two stay together,” he brought his fingers to his mouth and let out a piercing whistle. As the noise faded there was a rustling noise as foxes appeared out of the bushes and owls appeared in the trees. Bran then faded into the forest like the feral child he’d always wanted to be.

“Bran?” Fiona wandered up to where he had just been.

“I forgot he could talk to animals. He’ll be fine,” Hank groaned. “Come on.”

“Where? Hank I’m not even sure which way we came in!” a note of panic was creeping into Fiona’s voice, and Hank agreed. The forest had changed drastically in the space of a few hours, and they were in the edge of it still. With Bran gone, he suddenly felt a lot more vulnerable.

Fear began to claw its way up his throat and he stepped closer to Fiona.

“MAGS!” he called into the dark forest, his voice high pitched from fear. “RENA!”

“She won’t hear you!”

“Rena might,” he cupped his hands to his mouth. “RENA!”

He heard a faint high pitched bark and screech. There was no answering call from another fox.

“That way!” he pointed in the direction of the call and began to march through the undergrowth. “RENA!”

“Hank wait!”

“We can’t lose them!”

“We also can’t see shit!” Fiona snapped. “And how do you know that’s Rena?”

“Because they responded, RENA!”

There wasn’t another bark or scream.

“Look, I’m going to go back and get a torch. Stay here!” Fiona turned and ran back the way they came.

The dark closed in as she left and Hank subconsciously wrapped his arms around himself. The back of his neck prickled and he shot his head around, feeling like the trees themselves were watching him.

“Come on,” he stamped his feet and tried to shake it off. It was just the woods, yes there was dangerous stuff in there, but not this far towards the edge. It was fine, it was just dark. The dark always made things seem scarier.

Still, he felt an incredible amount of relief when a bright ball of light came bobbing through the trees, and Fiona returned with the torch. Once she was next to him she held it out for him to take.

“You know this forest. Lead the way.”

They wandered the forest for hours, calling out for Mags and Rena. They heard nothing after the first bark, but kept going roughly where it had come from. The feeling of being watched barely faded, and as the night drew on, they knew they couldn’t keep going.

Even with the torch it was near impossible to see and the more they walked, the more likely they were to keep irreparably lost. Hank left markers as best he could, but they didn’t seem to do much.

The two of them came to an unspoken agreement as the torch flickered, and turned around. They headed back the way they came, hoping it would take them home, and bubbling with unspoken fear about being lost forever in here.

Finally Hank’s markers became more obvious and the dark less cloying. The trees began to part and Hank could see the sides of his house.

“Finally,” he breathed, and the tension shattered as he and Fiona picked up the pace. The moon was starting to lower and when they left the trees the moonlight almost blinded them. They paused and shielded their eyes as if they’d walked into sunlight.

In the better light Hank could see the twigs in Fiona’s hair and the mud splattered on both their boots and clothes. They looked like they had been doing, exactly what they had been doing; tramping through the woods.

Hank turned to face the forest and took a few steps back, stomach churning. “We didn’t find them.”

Fiona grabbed his arm. “Don’t you dare go back in there.”

He looked back at her and then at the woods. He took a step back. Then another. Then another. He didn’t stop until his back hit the side of his house.

“Fuck,” he voice wobbled. His brother and sister were still in there. Age didn’t matter, he was supposed to look after them. That was what he did.

“Hey,” Fiona put a hand on his shoulder. “You watch, Bran will have found them, and all three of them are on their way back right now. It’ll be alright.”

“…Yeah.”

“And you know, I can’t see a fire glow anymore. It’s under control in Imforis.”

“Okay,” Hank slowly sank to the ground, knees up against his chest. Fiona took the smoking, burnt out torch from him and planted it into the damp ground before sliding down next to him.

The two of them watched the woods until the sun rose.

Bran came out first, stumbling and exhausted. His face was scratched and his clothes torn from thorns and snagging branches. Mud caked his lower half and a small amount of dried blood originated from a spot on his head, where it looked he might have hit it. He saw Hank and Fiona huddled against the house, and slowly shook his head.

Hank scrambled to his feet, dislodging Fiona’s head from his shoulder and marched over. “You have to have found her.”

“I didn’t,” Bran blinked rapidly. “We couldn’t find them.”

Hank gripped his brother’s shoulder’s in both hands, green eyes glaring into wide brown as they both blinked back tears. “You had to have done! You can speak to animals for fucks sake, did none of them see them?!”

“Hank,” Bran spoke softly, breath hitching. “Hank that hurts.”

Hank hadn’t realised that he’d been digging his fingers in, and rapidly let go, stepping back. “Sorry, sorry Bran.”

Bran nodded and tucked his hands into his armpits. “Ma and Da back yet?”

“No. Not yet,” it hadn’t occurred to Hank that they might not be coming back.

Bran visibly swallowed and looked away with an unsteady exhale.

There was a faint crunch of frost which caught all of their attention. All three heads spun towards the woods to see a figure stepping out.

“Mags!” Bran moved first, quickly followed by Hank. The brothers quickly slowed as Rena stepped in front of Mags, and they got a good look at her.

She looked pale, her clothes in a similar state of mud and disarray as Bran’s. Twigs and leaves were tangled in her hair, and her eyes were glazed over as she walked, or more stumbled.

Rena didn’t look much better, his normally glossy coat foamy from sweat and tangled. His head hung low and he was dragging his paws, but he was still trying to protect Mags.

Hank waved in Mags’s line of sight to try and get her attention. She slowly blinked and looked up, slowly registering who was there.

Hank tried to ignore the fact that her green eye looked like it had changed shade. It used to be the same shade as his, but now it was a brighter, more verdant green. Maybe it just looked that way because she was so pale.

“Hank? Bran?” she slowly signed, and began to blink. “What happened? Why are you…?” she looked down and saw the state she was in. “Why am I…? Ow my head…”

Hank walked over and pulled her into a hug, and even more amazingly, Bran joined it.

Later in the day their parents would come back saying that Imforis needed repairing, and Hank would go down and start helping. Later they would learn that Mags had no memory of the night, and if Rena did, he wasn’t telling Bran.

But now his little sister was home and safe, and that was all that mattered.

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Author’s Note: Hank was 26, Bran was 23, Mags 20, Fiona 24

[skgway]

1828 Dec., Mon. 29

6

10 1/2

Take down parcel to Mrs. W[illiam] P– [Priestley] to go to Lightcliffe by Martha this morning on her going to Mrs. P– [Priestley]’s school – Send back the pamphlet (Warner against Evangelical preaching) and the Leeds Mercury of yesterday week, enclosing 1 /. [shilling] to pay the 4d [pence] left owing to Mrs. W[illiam] P– [Priestley] on Friday and 7d [pence] to Mr. W[illiam] P– [Priestley] for paying Whitley as he promised to do on Saturday, for the Leeds Mercury of that day week I got of him on that day, and for which forgot to pay – 

Wrote 3 or 4 lines explanatory of all this on the piece of Whitley brown paper in which the shilling was folded – Then dressed – At my desk at 7 35/60 – Wrote rough draft of the index of the last 3 days – Breakfast in 20 minutes at 7 55/60 – Wrote the above of today – 

Out at 8 35/60 – Went to W[illiam] Keighly junior and his man cutting down Benjamin’s Well Field hedge along the top of Trough of Bolland wood – Then went for a while to Throp and the 2 wallers who began this morning to plant the newly cleared part of Cunnery plantation – Trees (oaks) at 2 yards distance every way planted with a gavelock – 

Jno [John] and William finished clearing the plantation. Mosey and his man finishing railing along the bottom of Lower Brook Ing wood – Returned to William K– [Keighley] after cutting down well field hedge, cut down small ash in Cunnery Ing hedge, and alder at the fish pond, and the one larch left standing in Cunnery clough, and one little sycamore near the garden wall in Hall green, and 1 two-grained long sycamore in the hall lane, and one ditto ditto smaller at the hedge row bottom of the Calft [Calf croft]. Then by mistake cut down about 9 yards fence in well royde land top of Lower Brea wood, then cut down some sycamores and ashes in Wellroyde wood, then a sycamore and an English elm at the top of Wellroyde Ing to loose 2 oaks – 

I got home at 5 20/60, and William K– [Keighley] came 10 minutes after – Paid him his bill – Robert Scholefield came – Gave him ￡3 for himself and Nathan Smith – Dressed – Dinner at 6 1/4 – Wrote the last 9 1/2 lines – 

William K– [Keighley] told me Mr. Jno [John] Rawson has some very nice sycamores and beeches – Free grown – Large enough for single trees – Think of waiting to ask for some – Wrote the last 11 lines – Fell asleep sitting on my chair, and slept till 9 40/60 – Fine day – Went upstairs at 9 3/4 – 

[sideways in margin] William K– [Keighley] told me, on condition of my not naming it, that Thomas G– [Greenwood] had sold the lot of sycamores he bought of me to the widow woman, who was to have had them if Thomas had not them, at 1/3 [one shilling, 3 pence] 1/2 per foot delivered at her house –

Vide 14 November William K– [Keighley] valued at 1/6 [one shilling, 6 pence] and 1/4 per foot and vide 27 November Mosey valued at 1/9 [one shilling, 9 pence] vide also his valuation of larch wood for railing – Vide below

[tomorrowedblog]

Friday Releases for October 2

Friday is the busiest day of the week for new releases, so we've decided to collect them all in one place. Friday Releases for October 2 include Possessor, Vampires Vs The Bronx, Star Wars: Squadrons, and more.

Possessor

Possessor, the new movie from Brandon Cronenberg, is out today.

From the visionary mind of writer/director Brandon Cronenberg, POSSESSOR is an arresting sci-fi thriller about elite, corporate assassin Tasya Vos. Using brain-implant technology, Vos takes control of other people’s bodies to execute high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.

Vampires Vs The Bronx

Vampires Vs The Bronx, the new movie from Osmany Rodriguez, is out today.

Three gutsy kids from a rapidly gentrifying Bronx neighborhood stumble upon a sinister plot to suck all the life from their beloved community.

A Call To Spy

A Call To Spy, the new movie from Lydia Dean Pilcher, is out today.

As Great Britain’s forces were stretched thin during World War II, Winston Churchill’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) began to enlist women as spies. Their daunting mission: conduct sabotage and build a resistance. Spymistress Vera Atkins, later the inspiration for Ian Fleming’s Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond franchise, was the chief recruiter for this secret army. Atkins selected two unusual candidates: Virginia Hall, an American journalist from Baltimore hampered by a wooden leg, and Noor Inayat Khan, a wireless officer of Indian descent and an avowed pacifist. Together, they worked to undermine the Nazi regime in France. The courage, sacrifices and grit of these three women helped quell the Nazi occupation – and ultimately turned the tide of the war.

12 Hour Shift

12 Hour Shift, the new movie from Brea Grant, is out today.

Nurse Mandy (Angela Bettis) is desperate to make it through her double shift without incident. This is particularly hard to do when you’re an addict and are also involved in a black market organ-trading scheme. When her hapless but dangerous cousin Regina (Chloe Farnworth) messes up a kidney delivery, chaos descends on the Arkansas hospital as Mandy and Regina frantically try to secure a replacement organ through any means necessary. Things grow increasingly complicated when injured convict Jefferson (David Arquette) is brought in, and events spiral even further out of control.

Tar

Tar, the new movie from Aaron Wolf, is out today.

For 40,000 years, a long forgotten wetland teemed with ancient creatures, but now all that’s left is a pit of hot, sticky tar surrounded by a vast urban landscape. For Barry Greenwood and his son Zach, there’s not much left of their family business either. With the city’s subway expanding under their feet and their office building slated for demolition, Barry, Zach and their employees are forced to shut down their shop and move out. But when something primal is awoken by the underground construction, a night of somber packing becomes a desperate fight for survival.

Save Yourselves!

Save Yourselves!, the new movie from Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, is out today.

Just when you thought the world couldn’t get weirder… terrifying visitors have come to conquer planet Earth! Can they be stopped? Will anyone come to the rescue?!

2067

2067, the new movie from Seth Larney, is out today.

By the year 2067, Earth has been ravaged by climate change and humanity is forced to live on artificial oxygen. An illness caused by the synthetic O2 is killing the worlds’ population and the only hope for a cure comes in the form of a message from the future: “Send Ethan Whyte”. Ethan, an underground tunnel worker, is suddenly thrust into a terrifying new world full of unknown danger as he must fight to save the human race.

Monsterland

Monsterland, the new TV series from Mary Laws, is out today.

Encounters with mermaids, fallen angels, and other strange beasts drive broken people to desperate acts in Monsterland, an anthology series based on the collection of stories from Nathan Ballingrud’s “North American Lake Monsters”.

Warrior S2

The second season of Warrior, the TV series from Jonathan Tropper, is out today.

The battle for San Francisco continues.

Star Wars: Squadrons

Star Wars: Squadrons, the new game from Motive and Electronic Arts, is out today.

Master the art of starfighter combat in the authentic piloting experience STAR WARS: Squadrons. Feel the adrenaline of first-person multiplayer space dogfights alongside your squadron, and buckle up in a thrilling STAR WARS story.

Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time

Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time, the new game from Activision, is out today.

Neo Cortex and N. Tropy are back at it again and launching an all-out assault on not just this universe, but the entire multiverse! Crash and Coco are here to save the day by reuniting the four Quantum Masks and bending the rules of reality. New abilities? Check. More playable characters? Yep. Alternate dimensions? Obviously. Ridonkulous bosses? For sure. Same awesome sauce? You bet your sweet jorts. Wait, are they actually jorts? Not in this universe!

[misslisterkeepsajournal]

1826 Wednesday 22 March

8 20/60 2 3/4

Letter 3 pages and the ends, and the 1st page crossed, from Miss Maclean (15 Hill Street Edinburgh) Mrs. Drummond is dead - Miss Reed is General D-'s [Drummond's] niece, and keeps his house - is odd, and never keeps a servant more than 6 months - has left Macdonald in charge the house and establishment at Culdees castle during their absence - Miss Macleans accounting for her heart aches (but she too as well as I seems to have thought of ossication the surgeon says 'it is muscular') and low spirits forty thousand pounds of debt on their estate a large new house building (for her brother) and an increasing family the son of her fathers only sister a laird it seems eight thousand pounds worse than nothing family quarrels etc etc. enough to dispirit anyone yet Breadalbane always visiting -

Breakfast at 10 1/2 - Went out at 11 50/60 - James Sykes tracing out the walk along the hollow over the sough in the Lower brook Ing - at the end next the wood, he has done or rather was doing it all wrong - too high upon the slope of the sunk fence - had it all altered, and put quite along the bottom of the hollow, which the man soon allowed would be 'much handsomer' - Had just gone to Lower brea Jackman mending the cart road along the daisy-bank - his son and Joseph Smith and in the afternoon John Booth helping to fill scraplings at Shepherds and William Green and John Bottomly leading (got 16 loads), when seeing my father coming turned back - he said Mr. Jubb was here, come about Northgate house -

Got back about 1 - said we could not give him the refusal there were other applicants - we should take, of course, whichever we preferred, but if all were otherwise equal the one who would give most rent - not less than £100 a year would be taken - Mr. Jubb behaved very handsomely - Perhaps he will be the one - my father and Marian both here, and staid till after 2 - walked back with them - looked all over the house - heard Marian's plan (made out by Thomas Greenwood) for building 3 good shops there to let for £40 a year each - to cost £1000 -

Went to Mr. Wiglesworth's office - he said from what Mr. Carr had said, he thought he would make no allowance for ready money - Mr. Carr said it was an agreement - this annoyed me - I told Mr. W- [Wiglesworth] exactly what had passed, and said I was determined to stick to what I wrote yesterday, and, if Mr. Carr did not agree, I would have nothing more to do with the business - he could not compel me, and he might do as he would - Called again at Northgate - told them what had passed, and my determination -

Got home at 5 - Went to James Sykes, and Jackman, and did not come in till 6 - dressed - dinner at 6 20/60 - tea and coffee at 8 10/60 - talking to my aunt of one thing or other - went upstairs at 10 3/4 at which hour Barometer 1/3 degree below changeable Fahrenheit 41° - Fine day, but coldish, tho' I was heated - this evening with walking - Read for 1/2 hour from page 22 to 78 tome 1 La vie du Chevalier de Faublas - then came down here into the breakfast room at 11 and from then to 2 10/60 wrote out (from my memoranda made at the moment) all but the 1st 3 or 4 lines of the journal of Saturday, and the whole of the journals of Sunday Monday yesterday and today -

While at Mr. Wiglesworth's office got a note he had written me to say 'as to your purchase made from Mr. Kershaw, I think that if the receipt is taken upon an agreement stamp with an undertaker from him to convey the purchased premises to you or as you may appoint, it will be sufficient, but they should be so far united with your own as to be made undistinguishable or nearly so' -  

Reference: SH:7/ML/E/9/0074