Romford's Hilda and Jack Chalkley - who lived in Hackney and worked in Islington - celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary with a JD Wetherspoon meal.
May 23, 1872: The Herald and Tribune reported sad news regarding the death of a small child. âOn last Saturday morning in this place, of brain fever, little Michael, son of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Shaver, in the fourth year of his age.â
Brain fever was very likely meningitis.
The Herald and Tribune was, and still is, a newspaper published in Jonesborough, which was spelled that way in 1872.
May 23, 1901: In a continuation of a story from the previous day, The Knoxville Sentinel reported on area flood damage. With a Johnson City dateline, readers learned, âThis is the eastern terminal of the Knoxville division of the Southern Railway company for the present. Superintendent C.L Ewing and other officials of the road reached here Wednesday and spent the day planning to accommodate traffic. As the river is now too high, no mail or passengers are being transferred. Two large barges are being built here and will be taken to Watauga this afternoon and placed in the river and u
Pure Electric has agreed an exclusive distribution deal with Analog Motion to offer its customers the new Analog Motion AMX Le Classic.
“The e-bike is set to define the highly competitive lightweight commuter category,” said a statement, “following a series of customer-led refinements by Analog Motion from the original AM1 bike first launched in 2017.” The e-bikes are available in either Deep Blue or Pearl White and come in two sizes, 55cm and 60cm.
Hackney-based Analog Motion has chosen Glastonbury’s Pure Electric to distribute its e-bike through the retailer’s network of high street stores and website.
“Analog Motion has produced a really well-thought-out bike at a very competitive price,” said Pure Electric’s Peter Kimberley. “Its decision to offer it exclusively through Pure Electric is a reflection of our rapid growth and our position as the leading retailer of e-bikes and electric scooters in the UK.”