1897 July Footnotes

[1] North Pole – Pôle Nord/Palais d’été – an ice-rink in winter and variety theatre in summer.

[2] Chelmsford – Steamer – built 1893 and operated by Great Eastern Railway.

[3] Cliff Gardens – In 1897, the Felixstowe Spa and Winter Garden Company decided to develop a public garden along the seafront, associated with a natural spa well which had become a popular visitor attraction.

[4] Herman de Stern Home, Felixstowe.

[5] Deben ferries cross the river from Felixstowe Ferry to Bawdsey Quay.

[6] The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray.

[7] The Abbot Constantine (French: L’Abbé Constantin) an 1882 novel by Ludovic Halev.

[8] Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine CH KBE, usually known as Hall Caine, was a British novelist, dramatist, short story writer, poet and critic of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Caine’s popularity during his lifetime was unprecedented.

[9] The Ebb-Tide. A Trio and a Quartette (1894) is a short novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson.

[10] Harold: The Last Of The Saxon Kings by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton.

[11] On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History is a book by Thomas Carlyle, published by James Fraser, London, in 1841. It is a collection of six lectures given in May 1840 about prominent historical figures.