| Description | Containing: election as Mayor, 5 November 1910; list of members and officers of the Corporation, 9 November 1910; business transacted by the Town Council and cases before the Bench, 1910-12; inspection of sewers, 14 November 1910; annual dinner of Huntingdonshire Chamber of Agriculture, Corn Exchange, St Ives, 21 November 1910; renunciation of 'right of free bench', 26 November 1910; disbursement of Christmas charity gifts; Urban District Council meeting regarding new cemetery, committee for National County Memorial to King Edward VII (extension to Hospital), January 1911; chair at meeting of licensing justices, Boy Scout meeting, February 1911; proposed closure of Berry Lane for the Gordon Bennett race of aviators, distribution of Easter Maundy charities, Coronation Committee, Court Leet meeting (illustrating Godmanchester Swan - monks), debt of Town Cricket Club, April 1911; amusing account of Coronation Fest Committee, Corporation Sports Committee, May 1911; carving by Mayor of copy of Nuremberg to be presented to the County Council as a Coronation memorial, Agricultural Show at St Ives, June 1911; Coronation festivities, including service and proclamation, distribution of chocolate boxes and Coronation buttons to schoolchildren, children's sports in the afternoon, followed by the Feast (tea), grown-up sports and illuminations, all on 22 June 1911; Corporation banquet in Court Hall, 23 June 1911; Freemen's Supper, 30 June 1911; replacement of brick drains by pipes and man-holes, June-July 1911; Coronation Festivities balance sheet, 10 July 1911; inspection of overgrown sewer dykes, 18 September 1911; letter from poacher, 19 Oct 1911; decision to erect panel recording the 2 yearly bailiffs since 1604 and mayors since 1835, October 1911; Councillor Gadsley's outburst in court against the National Insurance Bill and the Radical Government, 1 November 1811; building of tank to store river water to flush the sewer, cemetery ground loan, election of Mayor for further year (1911-12), November 1911; Court Leet and Lord Mayor's Fund for Titanic disaster, April 1912; meeting of Institute of Municipal Engineers at Godmanchester, October 1911; newspaper cuttings of Hinchingbrooke Pageant, 1912; invitation to re-opening of Godmanchester Church chancel, 15 April 1912; letter from a lunatic, 23 August 1912; invitation to a Ball at the Mansion House, 10 October 1912; selection of Councillor Towgood as next mayor, and subsequent election, November 1912; total of expenses for the 2 years - £117 11s 7d. Volume includes photographs: the mayor (Aubury Markham) and procession after proclaiming the king outside the Court Hall (Hendrey - faded), 1910 (f3); the Mayor (A. Markham) proclaiming the King on the boundary line on the bridge, nd (f4); view of Godmanchester from Portholme, nd (f5); Godmanchester Mill from across the river, nd (f6); view along river looking north, with bridge and mill (Hendry), nd (f7); children's service outside Court Hall, 1910 (f48); giving presents to children outside Court Hall (Hendry), 1910 (f50); 'Coronation' chair presented to County Council, 1911 (f44); the Mayor (Mr Stables) at the Hinchingbrooke Pageant, 6 July 1912 |