| Description | Childhood and early adult diaries and notebooks describing activities and local events around Elworth, including birdwatching, death of Queen Victoria, and coronation celebrations of Edward VII, studies in Belgium 1898-1900 and USA 1906-7 ( meeting Thomas A Edison,) 2 photograph portraits c. 1903, letters, snapshots and newscuttings in diaries. |
| Administrative History | John Norman Pring 1884-1972, was the grandson of the founder of John Pring and Son, wire manufacturers, Elworth. He attended Sandbach School and a Jesuit college Maison de Melle, in Belgium. He studied chemistry at Owens College, Manchester, and electrochemistry in USA where his diaries record a meeting with Thomas Edison in 1906/7. He served in the war 1914-1919 on the Western Front and in Mesopotamia. His later career was at Manchester University and Woolwich Arsenal. |