The conservatory construction work proceeds apace as I research Little Paxton manorial history all day before attending the Little Paxton Parish Planning Meeting tonight which was organised at my behest and endorsed just about all the proposals that I had made. The London Transport leaders resigned today as the Kings Cross Fire report castigates their organisation, the SNP make great gains in Glasgow Govan after opposing the Poll Tax and Nurses take industrial action in Wales and Birmingham. The Speaker of the West German parliament resigns over his comments appearing pro-Nazi
I slept well and was rested for my day’s activity. The Frost workmen were back at 9am and the pair of them put up the ring and cross rafters for the structure, cutting in to the outer skin of my cavity end wall for support. It looks quite huge. I worked on my history today, more particularly, the Manorial History of Little Paxton. I got out my new Doomsday edition editorial and read this and other sources to ‘gen up’ on manorial customs and tenure and then went through all of the information particular to Little Paxton and tried to put it in some sort of logical order. There is so much fragmentation that the task is very difficult to say the least. I worked at it all morning and afternoon, and ended up in some confusion and contradiction.
It was soon teatime and then I had to take Debbie over to Offord for her riding lesson. She was on a new pony and was not very fluent today. I had to leave her for a neighbour to bring back as I needed to come back and get changed for a Little Paxton Planning meeting. Off to the Village Hall for this event which had really been organised at my behest. I’ve been pushing for the Parish to produce detailed guidelines for the District to include in the Districtwide Local Plan. This was the meeting to consider my suggestions in it went very well, really. There were one or two points dropped and others added but the model I had produced prevailed in the majority – but then it should, shouldn’t it? Home at 9.30pm and time only just to start my Journal before I retired fairly early with Diana. The news tonight was of the resignation of the London Transport Chairman and Underground Manager – both in the wake of the enquiry report which castigated the management the lack of safety procedures. Late tonight, the news that Glasgow Govan, one of the ‘safest’ Scottish Labour Parliamentary seats had fallen to the Scottish National Party. The SNP had been advocating a campaign of civil disobedience of non-payment of the new poll tax and Labour had advocated against breaking the law. The SLD came a poor fourth behind the Conservatives. Nurses are beginning a ‘Work-To-Rule’ action in Wales and Birmingham over the continued injustice in the regrading procedures. The speaker of the West German Parliament has resigned after an unfortunate speech on the wartime anti-Jewish Nazi atrocities. He appeared to strike the wrong note and attempt to justify the action against Jews and paid the price.