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from Letter of Thursday 9 July 1931
It's Middlesbrough's centenary week so there are lots of celebrations. There are lots of flags on the market stalls and Middlesbrough's librarian has been talking about the history of the town. He said that in the 7th. century there was a monk's cell in Middlesbrough. I could show him one now. Stan Cole's shed. In 1801 there were only 25 people here so the population has grown very fast. There were ten thousand people at a meeting in Albert park the other night to celebrate the centenary. According to the paper they sang 'Oh God Our Help in Ages Past'. The school children have had a sports day in Stewart Park and a pageant in Ayresome Park. A lot of them went on to the pitch. The boys wore dark suits and the girls white dresses and they formed the word ERIMUS, the town's motto. Jimmy asked me what it meant but I had no idea. So I asked your dad. He has no idea either. He only knows how to run the country.
There's a man in North Ormesby applied for a job in one of the iron works and they told him he's too old to work. He's 42. So he wrote to Stanley Baldwin and said if there's a war would he be too old to fight. Anyway, Mr. Baldwin wrote back and sent him his sympathy. He said that we are importing iron and steel that we could make ourselves and when he gets in he will change that.
That's all this time. Your dad's been out all day looking for a job. I hoped he would take me to the Palladium this week, the first half, to see 'The Flirting Widow'. But he said he used to know her husband. He boozed in the Devonport.
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