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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 11 April 1912, Page 6

Sir William Ramsay, the famous chemist, speaking at the dinner of the Glasgow and Lanarkshire Association of London, told a story of two astronomers who were walking home arm in arm on the night of the famous meteoric shower in 1868. They had dined, perhaps not too wisely, but certainly well; and on their way home neither spoke a word—they were afraid to mention the meteoric shower."

The Edmonton District Council ha-s resolved to call the attention of the Office of Works (England) to the existence in the district of several buildings with historic aixl literary associations, in the hope that measures will be taken for their protection. From a statement made by the chairman of the council (Prebendary Sanders) it appears that Pymme's house in the public park was the residence in the days of Queen Elizabeth ot Lord Burleigh. At Bury-hall, in the northern part of the district, lived Bradshaw the regicide, in whose diningroom the warrant for the execution cf Charles I. was signed. Salisbury-house, in the same locality, was the residence of Judge Jeffreys, and at Bay-cottage, near the parish church, Charles Lamb and his sister Mary lived and died. Close by is the consulting-room where John Keats wrote his sonnets.