After leaving school the two sisters founded and co-edited a sixpenny monthly, the " Parthenon ", which lasted for three years.
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It was in Sixpenny Hundred, had 47 households, 12 ploughlands and 4 mills, and the lord and tenant-in-chief was Shaftesbury Abbey.
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In 1897, it was noted that coin-operated receivers had been installed in some hotels, which provided a few minutes of entertainment for a sixpenny.
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Examples include " Portisham ", rather than the modern spelling " Portesham " and the pre-decimal " 6D Handley " for Sixpenny Handley in Dorset.
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There, he was exposed at an early age to the theatres and sixpenny galleries of the city and to numerous famous comedians and entertainers of the day.
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These are a few of his illustration suites : In 1864 he began to illustrate a series of sixpenny toy books of nursery rhymes in three colours for Edmund Evans.
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Two other notable periodicals were founded in the forties . " The Tablet " was a sixpenny paper, reduced to five pence, on the abolition of the newspaper stamp duty.
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If you're a tuba player, you don't want to play a baritone, just like a carpenter wouldn't want to use a sledgehammer to drive sixpenny nails ."
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However, it remained a proposal, although the grandstand was replaced, terracing in the Sixpenny, and at the Tummp end was preferred, and indeed, more affordable in the early 20th Century.
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He also published a " History of Progress in Great Britain ", in sixpenny monthly parts, June 1859 to July 1860, which was reissued in two volumes ( 1859 60 ).
