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A Pictorial postcard that was posted in Great Yarmouth using a ½d. stamp on Wednesday the 28th. March 1906. It was sent to:

Miss F. E. Bliss,
Ravensworth,
Penarth,
Cardiff.

Penarth is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Cardiff city centre on the west shore of the Severn Estuary at the southern end of Cardiff Bay.

During the Victorian era Penarth was a highly popular holiday destination, promoted nationally as "The Garden by the Sea," and was packed with visitors from the Midlands and the West Country, as well as day trippers from the South Wales valleys, mostly arriving by train.

Today, the town, with its traditional seafront, continues to be a regular summer holiday destination (predominantly for older visitors), but their numbers are much lower than was common from Victorian times until the 1960's, when cheap overseas package holidays were introduced.

The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:

"So many thanks for the
violets - they came quite
fresh.
I'm busy at the yard.
What about my bike? Do
let me know, or there will
be no time to have it done.
Heard from W. yesterday -
he approves and says it
would be all right.
Am too busy to write
today,
Best love,
J."

Bishop Hall

The extraordinary story of the controversial and brilliant Norwich bishop who managed to leave the Tower of London without losing his head and who came to the city where he was humiliated and 'exiled' in Heigham is finally being told in a new book.

The life and times of Bishop Joseph Hall, once told to 'go and eat his books' after his salary was chopped, are told in a new book by Norwich author, historian and cathedral guide David Berwick.

Bishop Hall (1574 - 1656) was a fascinating character, perhaps the first English satirical author, who appears to have been air-brushed out of national and Norfolk history.

Now a new biography - The Divine 'Delinquent' – Bishop Hall of Norwich - will change all that, and give us an insight into the life and times of this colourful man of the church and man of the people.

As a cathedral guide David started to investigate and research Bishop Hall's rollercoaster life:

"I became totally hooked, and before long
it became an obsession to make this great
story available as a readable account by an
enthusiast rather than that of an academic."

He went on to say:

"I have read learned accounts of his life, and
found them to be 'dry' and rather unappealing.
My book attempts to be more informal by
introducing Joseph to my readers as a person
they feel comfortable with, and with whom they
may well identify in these financially difficult
times."

David added:

"I want to empathise with Joseph's trials and
his triumphs, and as far as I know there has
been no biography of him for nearly half a
century, and mine is the first to devote more
than half its contents to his life here in
Norwich."

-- Bishop Hall - The Early Years

Joseph was born in 1574. A brilliant scholar, he was elected a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, before moving to a life in the church. He married Elizabeth in 1603, and they had six children.

He had a good relationship with King James I, and also shared common interests with Charles I – moving up the ladder he preached peaceful tolerance between churches in dispute.

However Joseph was considered too minded towards Rome by many powerful leaders.

In 1641 he agreed to become Bishop of Norwich, but was locked up in the Tower of London for almost six months on trumped-up charges of treason.

Joseph was one of lucky ones and was freed, allowing him to come to Norwich.

-- Bishop Hall - The Later Years

By now Joseph had enemies in high places. He was cruelly treated, and branded a delinquent. His family possessions were taken from him and publicly auctioned. His income of £4,500 a year was cut to £400, and then taken away completely.

When he asked how he was going to provide for his family, he was told:

"Go and eat your books."

Eventually he was driven out of the Bishop's Palace and moved to Heigham, a humble parish he loved, where he assisted at St. Bartholomew's.

He lived in what became The Dolphin Inn – this was his palace, and Old Palace Road is named after the building.

Joseph dedicated the rest of his life to helping the poor and needy. And the people loved him.

When he died in 1656, his body was laid to rest at St. Bartholomew's. However more than 300 years later, his remains were re-buried at the cathedral after the graveyard was redeveloped.

Sándor Bihari

So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?

Well, the 28th. March 1906 was not a good day for Sándor Bihari, because he died in Budapest on that day. Sándor, who was born on the 19th. May 1855 in Rézbánya, was a Hungarian genre painter.

-- Sándor Bihari - The Early Years

Born to a Jewish family, Sándor spent his childhood in Nagyvárad. Originally, he worked with his father as a decorative painter.

In 1874, he moved to Budapest, where he did retouching at a photography studio while attending a drawing school operated by Bertalan Székely.

Two years later, Sándor used his meager resources to move to Vienna, where he hoped to enroll in the Academy of Fine Arts.

At first he had to find work as a retoucher again, and might have remained in that position, had he not received a gift of 600 Forints from Székely, which enabled him to quit his job and enter the Academy.

Sándor returned to his hometown, where he spent three years struggling as a portrait painter until a benefactor who liked his work provided the means for him to study in Paris.

He travelled there in 1883, where he studied at the Académie Julian with Jean-Paul Laurens, and improved his technique by copying the Old Masters at the Louvre. While there, he became acquainted with plein-air painting and Impressionism, which had a decisive influence on his style.

-- Sándor Bihari - The Later Years

Upon returning to Hungary, Sándor settled in Szolnok, a popular gathering place for painters, and later became one of the founders of an art colony there.

He continued to travel, making lengthy visits to Italy especially, until his health began to fail in 1893.

During his final years, he lived in Budapest but continued to spend his summers in Szolnok. In 1896, he was awarded the Order of Franz Joseph.

Lionel Smith Beale

The day also marked the death at the age of 78 of the British physician Lionel Smith Beale.

Lionel, who was born on the 5th. February 1828, was a microscopist, and professor at King's College London. He graduated in medicine from King's College in 1851, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1857.

-- Lionel Smith Beale - The Early Years

Lionel Smith Beale was born in London, the son of Lionel John Beale, a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.

He attended King's College School and King's College London, where he obtained a degree in medicine. He also studied zoology at King's College.

A year after graduating, Beale used his own funds to set up a laboratory for chemical and microscopic research and teaching. In 1853, when he was 25, King's College appointed him Professor of Physiology and General and Morbid Anatomy.

-- Lionel Smith Beale - The Later Years

In 1857 Beale was the founding editor of Archives of Medicine. He promised the readers of this journal:

"It will be freely illustrated, since
drawings are really of much more
use than long descriptions."

Beale was physician to King's College Hospital for forty years. At King's College, he became Professor of Pathology and then Professor of the Principle and Practice of Medicine until 1896, when he resigned.

Beale was awarded the Baly medal in 1871. He was Croonian Lecturer to the Royal Society, 1865, President of the Quekett Microscopical Club, 1870–1871, Lumleian Lecturer at the Royal College of Physicians, 1875, President of the Royal Microscopical Society, 1879, and Government medical referee for England, 1891–1904.

Beale married Frances, daughter of Dr. Blakiston, F.R.S. His son, Peyton T. B. Beale, also became a surgeon.

Frances Lawrence Parker

The 28th. March 1906 also marked the birth of Frances Lawrence Parker.

Frances was an American geologist and micropaleontologist. Her research focused on paleoceanography and micropaleontology.

She is recognized for her contributions to modern-day knowledge of benthic and planktonic foraminifera.

-- Frances Lawrence Parker - The Early Years

Frances Lawrence Parker was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. She was the fourth child of Philip Stanley Parker and Eleanor Payson Parker.

Frances attended Vassar College, graduating in 1928 with a bachelor's degree in geology, minoring in chemistry. Vassar College was one of the few institutions which promoted science courses for women at the time.

Throughout her studies, Frances undertook geographical trips to Wyoming, focusing on glacial geology, accompanied by geologist Thomas McDougall Hills.

In 1930, Parker graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a master's degree in geology.

-- Frances Lawrence Parker's Career

After completing her master's degree, Parker became the research assistant for micropalentologist Joseph Cushman at the Cushman laboratory in Sharon, Massachusetts.

Cushman and Parker studied foraminifera with funding from the U.S. Geological Survey. While studying foraminifera, Parker took and passed the U.S. Geological Survey exam and became an assistant paleontologist.

In the 1930's, Cushman and Parker traveled to central Europe to study specimens and to visit scientists, museums, and laboratories engaged in micropaleontology.

The pair published sixteen papers based on research data gathered between 1930 and 1940. During the summers of 1936-1940, Parker also spent time researching with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution alongside Fred B. Phleger.

-- A Career Shift

In 1940, Parker briefly stepped back from her work in science and worked as academic secretary at Foxcroft School, an exclusive girls’ school in Virginia.

In 1943, Frances was offered an opportunity to return to a research position with the Shell Oil Company in Houston, expanding her foraminifera taxonomy work into the petroleum industry.

She held a senior paleontologist position with the company from 1943-1945.

-- Frances Lawrence Parker - The Later Years

Parker and Phleger continued to work together during the 1950's, moving their research to La Jolla, California.

After founding the Marina Foraminifera Laboratory at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), Parker worked first as an associate in marine geology, then as a junior research geologist, and, finally, as an assistant research geologist.

After a brief break from SIO, Parker returned and was promoted to associate research geologist in 1960.

She worked as a research paleontologist from 1967 until her retirement in 1973. Although retired, Parker continued to work as a research associate.

Frances studied a variety of subjects, including geology, ecology, biogeography, and taxonomy. While at the Scripps laboratory, Parker wrote and published over thirty articles, both independently and in collaboration with colleagues.

-- Frances Lawrence Parker's Works and Contributions

-- Papers on Planktonic Foraminifera

Parker explored and published papers on many topics, including stratigraphy and preservation over the course of her long career.

Parker's work has become part of the foundations of modern paleooceanography. Parker has been recognized as an influential researcher, earning the Cushman Award for Outstanding Achievement in Foraminiferal Research in 1981.

Her most cited paper is "Planktonic foraminiferal species in Pacific sediments,” published in 1962. This paper changed the way planktonic foraminifers are identified in the modern age.

A 1973 follow-up study titled, “Late Cenozoic biostratigraphy (planktonic foraminifera) of tropical Atlantic deep-sea sections”, has also been cited numerous times.

Frances' works led her to become the editor for special publications at the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research.

-- The Marine Foraminifera Laboratory

Parker's contributions to the field also led to her founding the Marine Foraminifera Laboratory at Scripps with Fred B. Phleger in 1950. The laboratory was funded first by the American Petroleum Institute, and later by the Office of Naval Research and National Science Foundation.

-- Berger-Parker index

The Berger-Parker index is named after Parker and Wolfgang H. Berger. The index is a simple measure of biodiversity that quantifies the dominance of the most abundant species in a community.

-- The Death of Frances Lawrence Parker

Frances died in 2002.

-- Foraminifera

Foraminifera are the shells of microscopic organisms called foraminifera, which build intricate shells from the calcium carbonate they collect while drifting through the water.

Their shells have settled on the seafloor for 500 million years, and are used by scientists to study the earth's changing climate.

Generally referred to as forams, they are invertebrates that can be very useful in reconstructing paleoclimate (namely, paleotemperature), paleooceanography, paleobathymetry, and depositional environment (which is helpful in the search for oil).

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