Manchester was eagerly awaiting the arrival of the new £1 note.
None of the new notes, reported the Evening News, had yet been received at either the post office or the banks.
Slightly bigger than the previous version, it was to be phased across the country over the next free months with the old note gradually taken out of circulation
News was received that RH Spinner, the Lancashire and England cricketer had been wounded at the front.
He was a member of the Lincolnshire regiment which formed part of the British expeditionary Force that confronted the advancing Germans at Mons.
Another recruiting drive was underway in Manchester. The standard height for infantry was reduced to five feet four inches and the age limit extended from 35-38.
‘We are in danger of lagging behind other recruiting cities’said the chief recruiting officer.
Almost 30,000 men had joined up from the region but of late, numbers per day had dropped from three figures to two.
News came that morning of the death of a soldier from Harpurhey. Corporal George Wilkinson of the King’s Own Lancaster Regiment, had been serving with the Expeditionary Force in France , he was twenty one years of age.
