Description: This photo is on page 83 of 'Edwardian Nottingham' by Iliffe and Baguley, 1978. The caption is 'General Booth of the Salvation Army being driven by George Brough in his Darracq when he visited Nottingham to receive the Freedom of the City'. The notation on the back of the picture just says G Brough - this could be George Brough of Brough Superior motorcycle fame or perhaps his father who was also involved in the manufacture of motorbikes. After World War 1 young George claimed his patrimony, his £1,000 share in the family business, and spent most of it on a plot of land in Haydn road, Nottingham, and the erection of a single-story building of prefab concrete in which to build his powerful 1000cc motorbikes which he also raced (Lawrence of Arabia was a fan of his machines and was killed on his Brough Superior). Behind G Brough in the car is another Nottingham notable - General Booth. William Booth, the son of a builder who moved to Nottingham from Belper, was born in Nottingham in 1829. At the age of fifteen he was converted to Christianity and became a revivalist preacher. In 1849 he moved to London where he found work in a pawnbroker's shop at Walworth. Booth developed strong views on the role of church ministers believing they should be 'loosing the chains of injustice, freeing the captive and oppressed, sharing food and home, clothing the naked, and carrying out family responsibilities.' In 1865 William and his wife Catherine (of Ashbourne) founded the Whitechapel Christian Mission in London's East End to help feed and house the poor. The mission was reorganized in 1878 along military lines, with the preachers known as officers and Booth as the general. After this the group became known as the Salvation Army. William and Catherine tirelessly campaigned for better conditions for workers, and for alcoholic abstinence (which often acerbated poverty within families). Eventually he was made a freeman of London, granted a honorary degree from Oxford University and in 1902 was invited to attend the coronation of Edward VII. When William Booth died in 1912, his eldest son, William Bramwell Booth, became the leader of the Salvation Army. General Booth's early home in Nottingham is now a museum.