BORN WHEN BEEF WAS 2/6 A CARCASE
IN 1853 – a year when Thomas Ekin was gaoled for a month for killing a pigeon at Brixworth when Dr. Pulvermacher’s patent portable hydro-electric chain (steaming electricity) was advertised as curing asthma and diseases of the liver, and beef was 2s 6d. a carcase in Newgate Market – Josiah Walker was born in Northampton.
He has died at his home, 37 Billing-road, Northampton, aged 95.
Mr. Walker was financial clerk and accountant at St. Andrew’s Hospital when he retired in 1923.
He was a director of Northampton and Midland Building Society from 1902 to 1947.
For many years he served on the committee of Northampton Town and County Conservative Club.
(Northampton Mercury, 17th December 1948)
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