Recollections of a Busy Life: Being the Reminiscences of a Liverpool Merchant 1840-1910
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Forwood William Bower. Recollections of a Busy Life: Being the Reminiscences of a Liverpool Merchant 1840-1910
PREFACE
A FOREWORD
CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS
CHAPTER II. VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD
CHAPTER III. LIVERPOOL
Liverpool in 1860-1870
The Dock Board
The Liverpool Exchange
Commerce
The American War
The Southern Bazaar
The Volunteer Movement
Intellectual Life
Society in Liverpool
CHAPTER IV. BUSINESS LIFE
Voyage in the "Great Eastern."
Arrested in New York in 1861
Leech, Harrison and Forwood
CHAPTER V. PUBLIC LIFE
Chamber of Commerce
American Chamber of Commerce
Joint Committee on Railway Rates
The United Cotton Association
International Cotton Convention
Mayor of Liverpool
Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales
Lord Mayor
CHAPTER VI. THE FENIAN TROUBLES
CHAPTER VII. THE TOWN COUNCIL
The Town Hall – Its Hospitality
Work in the City Council
The Burning of the Landing Stage
The Water Committee
Parliamentary Committee
Manchester Ship Canal
Corporation Leaseholds
CHAPTER VIII. LIBRARY, MUSEUM, AND ARTS COMMITTEE
The Walker Art Gallery
Among the Studios
CHAPTER IX. KNIGHTHOOD AND FREEDOM OF LIVERPOOL
Honorary Freedom of Liverpool
CHAPTER X. POLITICAL WORK
CHAPTER XI. JUDICIAL WORK
Walton Jail
High Sheriff of Lancashire
CHAPTER XII. BLUNDELLSANDS, CROSBY AND BROMBOROUGH
Crosby Grammar School
Bromborough
CHAPTER XIII. DIRECTORSHIPS
The Overhead Railway
Opening by the Marquis of Salisbury
The Bank of Liverpool
The Cunard Company
Vibration
Castle Wemyss
The Liverpool and Mediterranean Trade
The White Star Line
Mr. T. H. Ismay
Sir Alfred Jones, K.C.M.G
CHAPTER XIV. THE CHURCHES
The Building of a Cathedral
Foundation-Stone Laid by the King
Consecration of the Lady Chapel
York House of Convocation
Church Congress
New York Cathedral
CHAPTER XV. PHILANTHROPY, CHARITABLE AND SOCIAL WORK
CHAPTER XVI. THE SEAMEN'S ORPHANAGE, Etc
The Royal Commission on Motors
CHAPTER XVII. THE EARL OF DERBY
Appointments to the County Bench
Prince Fushimi of Japan
CHAPTER XVIII. TRAVELS
The Franco-German Battlefields
Costa Rica
Jamaica
Mexico
America in 1905
Miscellaneous Tours
The Desert of Sahara
The Count's Garden, Biskra
Egypt
Impressions of India
Lord Clive
CHAPTER XIX. RECREATIONS
Yacht Racing Association
Royal Canoe Club
Gardening
CHAPTER XX. OBITER DICTA
Success in Life
Observation
Imagination
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Many of the following pages were written for private circulation. Influential friends have, however, urged me to publish them, as they may appeal to a wider circle of readers. I have consented, with diffidence, but have availed myself of the opportunity to add some chapters upon local affairs, which I trust may be of public interest, and recall pleasing memories of bygone times.
Bromborough Hall,
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At the age of 14 I was sent to Dr. Heldenmier's school at Worksop, in Nottinghamshire, where the Pestalozzian system of education was carried on. It was a celebrated school; many Liverpool boys were there with me, the Muspratts, Hornbys, Langtons, etc., and though we worked hard we had plenty of relaxation in the workshop and the playing fields, besides long walks in the lovely parks that surround Worksop, and which are known as the Dukeries. During these walks we were encouraged to botanise, collect birds' eggs, etc., and the love of nature which was in this way inculcated has been one of the delights of my life. The noble owners of these parks were most kind to the boys. We were frequently invited to Clumber, the residence of the Duke of Newcastle, who was Minister of War. The Crimean war was then being waged, and we considered the duke a very great person; and a few words of kindly approbation he spoke to me are among the sunny memories of my school days. The Duke of Portland, who was suffering from some painful malady, which caused him to hide himself from the world, was also always glad to see the boys, and to show us the great subterranean galleries he was constructing at Welbeck; but our greatest delights were skating on the lake at Clumber in winter, and our excursions to Roch Abbey and to Sherwood Forest in the summer. The delight of those days will never fade from my memory. We used to return loaded with treasures, birds' eggs, butterflies, fossils, and specimens of wild flowers. In the autumn Sir Thomas White always gave us a day's outing, beating up game for him; this we also greatly enjoyed; and how we devoured the bread and cheese and small beer which the keepers provided us for lunch!
We were taken by the directors of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway to the opening of the new docks at Grimsby. The directors had a special train which stopped to pick up the boys at Worksop. Charles Dickens was of the party. On the return journey, I was in his carriage; he gave me a large cigar to smoke – the first, and the last cigar I ever smoked, for the effect was disastrous.
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