Jun 9th, 2009
I’m back!
This site has been down for a while and I’m sorry if you’ve been trying to find it. I’m very relieved to be back.
The Hamilton Advertiser did publish a follow up story on 4 June about the 4 Robert Bensons. I’m still waiting for a ‘hard copy’ of the paper to arrive (it’s not available where I am) but here’s the online link to the story.
Sadly, the paper put a link to this blog in the article and by the time it appeared, the site was down so the link was dead. I don’t know if that cost me any vital contacts. But they also published my phone number and two people made contact that way, which was just marvellous.
I’ll write more about this later – just wanted to get the notification about the newspaper story up quickly.
May 26th, 2009
Newspaper clipping
By way of being an update to the story of the Robert Bensons, I received today a copy of the microfilmed record from the Hamilton Advertiser. Even though I have a good copy of the photo already, there’s something exciting about seeing it in situ. Those Bensons got a good chunk of the page, by the looks of it.
I love the edges of the copy which give a glimpse into 1933 Hamilton. Did the Hamilton Old Parish Church Girls’ Association enjoy their visit to the works? It sounds a wee bit dull, to be honest – inspecting a ruling machine in operation?
And look at those Entertainments. Green’s Playhouse, Renfield Street, Europe’s largest cinema, where none but the best talking pictures are shown. That week’s films included If I Had a Million which tells what happens to eight otherwise unconnected people when they are picked out of the phone book by a dying multimillionaire and each endowed with a million dollars. I wonder if anyone in my photo went to the pictures to see it?
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