Norfolk Annals, Vol. 2 / A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century

Transcribed from the 1901 edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for allowing their copy to be used for this transcription.
CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD OF REMARKABLE EVENTS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
( Compiled from the files of the “ Norfolk Chronicle ”)
BY CHARLES MACKIE
VOLUME II.
1851–1900
“It is beyond the capacity of the human intellect to discriminate beforehand between what is valuable and what is valueless in the pursuit of historical research. What would we give now for newspapers and trade circulars illustrating the social habits of many bygone times and peoples?”— The Times , May 4, 1900.
1901 Printed at the Office of the “Norfolk Chronicle” Market Place Norwich
In the terms of the publishers’ announcement the two volumes of “Norfolk Annals” were to have contained 800 pages; the work has really exceeded that estimate by 255 pages.
Although the period from 1851 to 1900 was marked by many incidents of great importance in the history of Norfolk and Norwich, the record thereof in Volume II. of “Norfolk Annals” lacks several of the features which made Volume I. acceptable to the lover of folk lore and to the student of local events in the earlier days of the Nineteenth Century. If, however, the present volume be less interesting than Volume I., it may yet be useful for the verification of the dates of occurrences regarding which the public memory is proverbially shortlived and unreliable.
Page 40, fourth line of fifth paragraph, for “56 seconds” read “2 minutes 56 seconds.”
George Cubitt, Tombland, Norwich.