Day in London of NEDC meetings and Family History, company share transfer registration and company names research as June is back at Comart and all seems to be well in my absence
Up at 6.00am but could only get going after ten minutes when Diana brought me a refreshing cup of tea. On to St Neots station after a shower and brief breakfast of toast and apple juice and there to catch the 6.57am train for London. It was not possible to get a day return and the full first class fare came to £15.20. They have now completed the structural work on the station footbridge and only have the lights and signs to erect. I am sad at the departure of the old footbridge and, although I understand the extent of its deterioration, the splendid wrought ironwork is of an age gone by. The new concrete and stainless structure will be far easier to maintain of course and the railway of today runs with a basic minimum of staff.
First to the Registrar of Deaths in Kingsway, WC2 by tube and Aldwich Station. There to search painfully through the Death Registers for 1894 to 1868 to try to find either my great-great-great or great-great grandfather John’s Broad death certificates. No joy in this but I found one or two possible relatives and applied for their details. Then to the Bank for funds and the first time I did have a £50 note in my change – it shows St Paul’s Cathedral on it and Sir Christopher Wren. Then to the Stamp Office in Bush House to have marked and stamped all manner of share transfers that took place these last few years.
By taxi to my NEDC Working Party on Tariffs at Millbank Tower to arrive a little late at 10.30 for my meeting. Two hours at least discussing the recommendations on tariff reduction on semi conductors so that computer equipment makers can be competitive with the US and JAPAN. A satisfactory agreement to equalise the duties eventually though I fear the delay for staged reduction. A buffet lunch at the NEDC’s expense and then by taxi to Companies House in the City Road to search names and their usage. By this process to reduce the first list available to me for the new name of the organisation to three – “Group Micro”, “Synerteck” and “Unimicro” with two other possibilities reduced to one – “Alliance”. Now to await the results of the trademark searches before making a final decision.
Back to Kings Cross station by tube, a phone call to the office to establish no problems outstanding and June back to work, and then by tube again to Swiss Cottage Library of Local History to continue my search into my ancestry. I discover that John Broad (Jnr) was at St Pancras during the March 1851 census and that he was born in 1829 in Watford. This fact will help me to trace his father’s background. A late journey home by train to St Neots via Hitchin and short drive from the station home. A very warm day today for October and quite stuffy to be active and travelling.
News tonight of a further victory for Neil Kinnock as the hard left are prevented from making too many gains on the Labour Party’s National Executive. Another stage-managed arms limitation offer by the US President that will no doubt be similarly rejected and tales of earthquakes and volcanos in Japan, Southern Europe and floods in America. Bed early to Diana, tired from my long day’s exertions.