The four Manchester battalions arrived in Grantham to a hearty welcome. They would continue their training at Belton Park and were, it was reported, pleasantly surprised at their new surroundings in beautiful countryside.
The death was reported of a Clayton soldier, Lance Corporal W Harrison of the 2nd East Yorkshire regiment from Stoke Street. He was well known in the district and had worked at Messrs Armstrong Whitworth and Co. for ten years. Having fought in the Boer War with the mounted infantry, he had joined up and gone out to fight in France in January.
Bernard Ryan, a driver in the Royal field artillery from Harpurhey was drowned in the Aegean Sea after his troopship was attacked by A Turkish destroyer. He was 22.
A despatch from Athens stated that the Allied forces had seized all the Turkish positions opposite to the landing points on the Gallipoli peninsula. The Turks defended themselves feebly for three days said the report while the Allied fleet had been bombarding forts on the Dardanelles and the Gulf of Saros.
Five people were injured on May Day when two trains collided at Victoria Station, the train from bacup colliding with a stationery one about to leave for Prestwich on Platform 4 just before nine o clock in the morning.
Women were being employed on Manchester’ railways . No fewer than sixty me,ears of the air sex had taken on the role of men who had gone to war.They were working as booking clerks,carriage cleaners,and porters.
There was also speculation that Manchester and Salford would follow the example of Glasgow in employing women conductors on the trams
The bodies of two young lovers from Pendleton were found in the Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal at Agecroft by a man walking his dog.
Twenty one year old Alfred Lafferty and twenty year old Elisabeth Eddows had been missing from their homes for two weeks. Alfred had been home on leave from the Salford battalion of the Lancashire fusiliers. The coroner ruled that bey had both drowned.
A shopkeeper and her three children had a very narrow escape after a fire gutted the premises of a tobacconist on the Bury New road.They made their escape through a back bedroom window jumping twenty feet to the ground.While being treated for Shockley suffered no other injuries, the premises was gutted.
There was a mystery theft of. £20 note from the dressing room of a Manchester actress. Henry James Henley who worked as a dresser at the theatre was charged with the theft at the Theatre Royale on the last night of the pantomime in which the actress Miss Ella Redford played the principle boy.
Henley denied the charge saying that he had changed the note that had been given to him by a call boy Edward Fielding who denied ever seeing the note.Henley was remanded until the following week on £50 bail.
There were packed houses at Manchester’s Gaiety theatre that May Day weekend for the final performances of Carmen.The idea that there is no public interest in opera in Manchester was refuted said the Evening News.
