Boots Scribbling Diary 1939 Note by Francis Bennion A tidy advantage of being born, as I was, on 2 January is that throughout life one’s calendar year runs with that of the nation. The nation’s 1939 corresponded with my own year of being sixteen. An eventful year it was. On 3 September Neville Chamberlain declared war on Germany, thus inaugurating World War Two. My own big date was when I left school and got my first job (as an errand boy with Timothy White’s and Taylors, pharmacists - or as we would then say - chemists. All this I faithfully recorded, with much other news less important, in the pages of my Boots Scribbling Diary 1939, here presented. On the last page there is a useful summary of the contents. There is another connection with Boots. It is a family story that my maternal grandfather the late Laban Robinson was offered a partnership by his business friend Jesse Boot, the founder of Boots Cash Chemists and later first Lord Trent. Like another business associate of Jesse, John Harston, to whom a similar offer was made, Laban turned it down on the ground that the business was not in his opinion likely to succeed. To continue scroll down. It takes a moment for the page content to appear. The Flinns, by the way, were my Uncle and Aunt (the only ones I had).

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Boots Scribbling Diary 1939

Note by Francis Bennion

A tidy advantage of being born, as I was, on 2 January is that throughout life

one’s calendar year runs with that of the nation. The nation’s 1939

corresponded with my own year of being sixteen. An eventful year it was.

On 3 September Neville Chamberlain declared war on Germany, thus inaugurating World War Two. My own big date was when I left school and

got my first job (as an errand boy with Timothy White’s and Taylors,

pharmacists - or as we would then say - chemists. All this I faithfully recorded, with much other news less important, in the pages of my Boots

Scribbling Diary 1939, here presented. On the last page there is a useful

summary of the contents.

There is another connection with Boots. It is a family story that my maternal

grandfather the late Laban Robinson was offered a partnership by his

business friend Jesse Boot, the founder of Boots Cash Chemists and later

first Lord Trent. Like another business associate of Jesse, John Harston, to whom a similar offer was made, Laban turned it down on the ground that the

business was not in his opinion likely to succeed.

To continue scroll down. It takes a moment for the page content to appear.

The Flinns, by the way, were my Uncle and Aunt (the only ones I had).