The Parish Magazine January 2022

History
Was it really . . .?
. . . 100 YEARS AGO on 5 January 1922 that Sir Ernest
Shackleton, the Irish-born British Antarctic explorer,
died of a heart attack in South Georgia. He had led three
British expeditions to the Antarctic.
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100 years ago in
The Parish Magazine
. . . 80 YEARS AGO on 29 January 1942 the BBC Radio
Show Desert Island Discs was first broadcast. It is
Britain’s longest running radio show, and the world’s
longest running weekly factual radio programme.
November 2014: Theresa May was Kirsty Young's guest on Desert
Island Discs, which this month celebrates 80 years of broadcasts
. . . 70 YEARS AGO on 1 January 1947 that the UK’s
coal industry was nationalised when the Coal Industry
Nationalisation Act 1946 came into effect. The industry
was run by the National Coal Board. It was renamed the
British Coal Corporation in 1987 and was subsequently
privatised.
. . . 70 YEARS AGO on 1 January 1952 that the nuclear
reactors at Windscale (now Sellafield) in Cumbria began
producing enriched plutonium for use in Britain’s first
atomic bomb.
. . . 50 YEARS AGO from 9 January to 28 February 1972
that British miners staged a major strike over pay. This led
to power shortages, and a state of emergency was declared
on 9 February. The miners returned to work when the
National Union of Mineworkers accepted an improved pay
offer.
. . . 50 YEARS AGO on 20 January 1972 that the number
of unemployed people in the UK passed one million for
the first time.
. . . 25 YEARS AGO on 15 January 1997 that Princess
Diana walked through a minefield in Angola, visited
victims, and called for an international ban on landmines.
. . . 20 YEARS AGO on 31 January 2002, that the Larsen
B Ice Shelf in Antarctica began to collapse. The whole
3,265 sq. km structure disintegrated over the next 35 days.
. . . 5 YEARS AGO in January 2017 that The Parish
Magazine announced the final fund raising effort for The
Ark. It was officially opened 5 months later.
THE MAGAZINE (January 1922)
Backed by the Parochial Church Council to the extent of £20
for the year, the Magazine appears again.
Most people think that it would be badly missed if it were
discontinued, but if it is to go on from year to year our friends
must understand that it is not as yet anything like selfsupporting
and must rely very much upon the goodwill and
generosity of the parish.
Therefore, if some who have not sent their subscription
wish to help our issue, will they reconsider and send at least
their 2/6 to Mrs Gould at the Telephone Office and then they
will have the Magazine delivered free to them every month of
the present year ?
There is another way in which many can help and that is by
favouring our advertisers.
The advertisements go a long way to help the cost of the
Magazine. But to keep our old friends and to attract new ones
we must make it worth while for firms to advertise. We have
lost more than one advertisement on the plea that we cannot
trace a single order to our advertisement in the Sonning
Magazine.
Let us, when we have opportunity, give an order to a firm
that advertises with us and let it know that we give the order
for that reason.
We are open to receive new advertisements at any time.
The charge is only 60/- for a whole page for a whole year; and
smaller spaces in proportion.
How times have changed? See page 25!