Overworked Victorian clerk? Newport
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Overworked Victorian clerk? Newport
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 25 Jul 2010
A faded sign above a letterbox on the north side of the former magistrates' court http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/895526 refers to Magistrates' Clerk's Letters. If the (possibly Victorian) signwriter was punctilious in the use of punctuation, at the time of the sign's creation, there was more than one magistrate, but only one clerk. My knowledge of the typical amount of clerical work generated by magistrates then (or indeed now) is insufficient to judge how well one clerk could have coped.
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Image Location
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51.590171
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-3.001729