2009
December 2009
The Lost Transformationalist
November 2009
Old news this, but I’ve only just come across it. It seems that Transformationalism had made its way across the channel as evidenced by the following report from The Graphic of 16th June, 1894:
And here’s a rather risqué picture of the sisters from wikipedia:
August 2009
Grainger Reece (8/5/61 - 26/7/09)
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June 2009
Frederick Hammersley Dead
On Saturday 13th June The Guardian reported the death of Frederick Hammersley in their obituary column. Gave him a nice spread too. No mention of his namesake though.
May 2009
I had wondered about drifting quietly off into the sunset, especially since I’d missed adding anything for April. The world does seem very strange at the moment. One minute we’re all dying of pig flu, the next we’ve all got torches lit and stakes sharpened and we’re roaming the streets ridding ourselves of recalcitrant M.P.s. And everything seems to be the fault of Gordon Brown. I would have left everyone to it and kept my tuppence to myself, and then there was this:
Council reveals plans for City of Culture bid
What do we make of it all? Is Frederick Hammersley finally going to get the recognition he deserves?
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March 2009
A strange comment in the first episode of the new series of ‘Lewis’. Jorge Luis Borges’ name came up during the course of the investigation, which was nice, but then the lady chief inspector person said something along the lines of “Does anybody read Borges nowadays?” So all points for mentioning Borges are immediately forfeited.
And still in the world of the odd, I received the following picture in an email from The Scotsman.
Now is this a transformationalist postcard? The two gentlemen are wearing hats, but one is not looking at the camera. The horse, meanwhile, is striking an eccentric pose consistent with the ‘One Man Variant’. I must consult with Dean Hammersley, the expert in this area.
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February 2009
January 2009
Happy Transformationalistic New Year.
I recently came across Robert Buchanan’s obituary in the Staffordshire Sentinel from 13th June, 1901:
“Mr. Robert Buchanan, the author, who died on Monday, was, of course, a local man. He was born at Caverswall in 1841, and was the only son of Robert Buchanan, and Margaret Williams, of Stoke. Robert Buchanan pere was one of the earliest disciples of Robert Owen in North Staffordshire, and took a prominent part in the great strike of 1836, afterwards going to Scotland to follow his trade there, but becoming instead a “Socialist, missionary, and journalist.”
It's no wonder that the Sentinel totally ignored the activities of the Transformationalists since they only gave three sentences (or really two, since the last one was about his father) to the most important author born in the area up to that time.
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