Post by harrier on Jan 2, 2016 15:07:42 GMT
Help!!!
It was not unusual for the local running club at the turn of the century (1900s) to collect for charity when they had a club race. The charities to benefit were the likes of the local hospital, family members of local soldiers and their own club funds. But then once in 1900 and again in 1903, they started collecting for the 'Mayor's Patriotic Fund'. What was this?? I know there was an Act of Parliament passed in 1903 to do with 'Lord Mayor's Patriotic Funds', which I cannot make heads nor tails of! The Boar War had finished but was the Local Fund specifically for the relief of any local military who had fought in South Africa? The Local Studies Department has a Mayor's Patriotic Fund subscription book for 1901 to 1904 when donations seem to have stopped - there are no details of what the Fund was for.
So was this just a typical local relief fund with a grand title? It just seems strange to me that a small sports club should switch the aims of its collections from local good causes to one, which on the face of it, smacks at a national politically motivated policy??
It was not unusual for the local running club at the turn of the century (1900s) to collect for charity when they had a club race. The charities to benefit were the likes of the local hospital, family members of local soldiers and their own club funds. But then once in 1900 and again in 1903, they started collecting for the 'Mayor's Patriotic Fund'. What was this?? I know there was an Act of Parliament passed in 1903 to do with 'Lord Mayor's Patriotic Funds', which I cannot make heads nor tails of! The Boar War had finished but was the Local Fund specifically for the relief of any local military who had fought in South Africa? The Local Studies Department has a Mayor's Patriotic Fund subscription book for 1901 to 1904 when donations seem to have stopped - there are no details of what the Fund was for.
So was this just a typical local relief fund with a grand title? It just seems strange to me that a small sports club should switch the aims of its collections from local good causes to one, which on the face of it, smacks at a national politically motivated policy??
