Richard Morris Jr. passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the Gloucester Times on 2023-09-20.
At the risk of sounding unpatriotic, this supposedly debunks the chain-letter (which is only cited but not duplicated in this writeup). What follows is .
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‘Invalids Wanted’: Residential Care in the 19th Century
Medical gentleman ‘living in a pleasant and salubrious part of the town’ offered part of his house to any lady or gentleman desirous of a large seaside residence.
One of the (welcome) side benefits of spending hours trawling through newspaper databases, whilst searching for material for my beards project was the raft of fantastic, and sometimes intriguing, references that caught my eye in passing. These could be anything from quirky reports of events to adverts for unusual products. Amongst the more intriguing references that I came across were a type of advertisement that popped up quite regularly in nineteenth-century newspapers, placed by medical practitioners. Rather than advertising their servi