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Leighway September 2010.Pdf Issue 31 – September 2010 The newsletter of the Leigh Society An eye to the future with an ear to the past in the heart of Leigh FROM THE EDITOR LEIGH’S OLYMPIAN Dear All With the Olympics just around the corner in time and place, it is nice to record one Leigh man who did the Town proud. I love doing Leighway, finding unusual and interesting stories Martyn Taylor Lucking was born in Leigh in 1938. He connected to this wonderful place we live in. It does get harder attended Felsted School and in 1958 represented the UK in the and harder though. shot putt at the Commonwealth Games in Cardiff bringing back You will see that this edition is very heavily PEOPLE led. I a silver medal for a throw of just over 53 feet. would really like Leighway to cover all aspects of Leigh, not In 1960 he took part in the Rome Olympics coming a just its history. respectable 8th with a throw of 57 feet. So if any of you out there are ecologists, architects, Two years later at the Perth Commonwealth Games Martyn environmentalists, please put pen to paper and tell us about won gold with a throw of 59 feet 4 inches. your experiences of Leigh in these areas. Martyn appeared for a second time as an Olympian at the 1964 We know from feedback that you all like the Leighway, so be a Tokyo Olympics where he came 16th with a throw of just under part of it and write an article. The holiday season is coming to an end so who amongst you 58 feet. Although Lucking is a local Leigh name, Martyn’s father came has been somewhere or seen something they would like to tell others about? Now is your chance. from Northamptonshire, but his mother was a Leigh girl, a The next Leighway will be in January so if you feel the urge member of the Osborne family and his grandmother was a Brewer. please submit your articles to me by 31 December at [email protected] or via the Heritage Centre, Dr Martyn Taylor Lucking was also Chairman of the British 13A High Street, Leigh-on-Sea SS9 2EN. Athletics Foundation and advisor in relation to drug abuse, Carole being involved in some very high profile cases. CONSERVATION DEAR DIARY The Borough Council is currently going through a process of All our talks are held at Wesley Hall, Elm Road Methodist reappraising all of its conservation areas. Church at 8 p.m entry charge of £1 for members and £2 for Leigh has 4 conservation areas and the Borough has already visitors. Our events and others for your enjoyment are as completed the ones for Leigh Old Town and Chapmanslord. follows - They have just finished a consultation on the appraisals for Leigh Cliff and Leigh Conservation Areas. 11-12 September - Regatta Our Secretary, Margaret Buckey sits on the Council’s 13 October – Society talk on Leigh buildings – David Conservation Working Party which is made up of councilors Greenwood and representatives of various local conservation groups. 31 October – Sunday lunch on the Wilton In carrying out the appraisals the Council: 10 November – Society talk - Leigh in the 70s – has it changed? • identifies the area's special interest 4 December 7.30 – Quiz - Den • reviews conservation area boundaries • assesses the need for enhancement proposals KEEPING IN TOUCH • reviews the need for Article 4 Direction controls Over the last few years Leighway has helped several • assist s preparation of the Local Development researchers in their quests to find long lost families or Document which will replace the current Borough information about buildings or other issues related to the town. Local Plan It also adds to our wealth of knowledge about the town and its • provides a basis for implementing policies and folk. So keep the requests coming. We may not always be making informed development control decisions successful but who knows, that long lost 6th cousin may be waiting for your question. • guides any future highway proposals in the area. 1 FORGOTTEN HERO? THE LAST TOPPER NOT ANYMORE This is William Davidson, one time constable of Leigh. Although not a Leighman, William, who had joined the police in 1872, had been stationed at Southend then Rochford. His This very smart, but very young, man is Philip Bolt. Philip was service to Leigh was to last for 25 years and on his retirement a friend of James Johnson (son of James Henry Johnson, grocer he was presented with a purse of gold and an illuminated of 2 Leigh Hill). Philip was the son of Daniel and Lucy Bolt of address by the inhabitants of Leigh. Station Road. Philip joined the Mercantile Marine in World War 1 and served William has the distinction of being the last Essex policeman to as a wireless operator on SS Pomeranian. He was killed on 15 wear a top hat which was the form of headgear used before April 1918 when the ship was torpedoed and sunk off the coast helmets came in. of Portland Bill, Dorset, by the German u-boat UC-77, forty The top hat was designed and first worn by John Hetherington, five lives were lost, including Philip. a London men's clothing maker, in the 1840's. The first time he UC-77 was a German Type UC II mine laying submarine or U- wore it in public, women screamed and fainted, and crowds boat in the German Imperial Navy. In 13 patrols UC-77 was gathered. It caused an uproar which led to his arrest and credited with sinking 4 ships, either by torpedo or by mines subsequent fine of £50, an absolute fortune in those days. A law laid. UC-77 was mined and sunk off Flanders on 14 July 1918. was also passed forbidding anybody to wear the top hat in Linda Marshall, the granddaughter of J H Johnson, has had this public on the grounds it scared timid people. photo in her family’s archives many years and it serves to show The officer, who dealt with the scandal, described the offence the friendship between the two men. as follows: "Hetherington had such a tall and shiny construction Whilst Philip’s name appears on the Mercantile Marine on his head that it must have terrified nervous people. The sight memorial on Tower Hill, Linda was keen to see Philip of this construction was so overstated that various women remembered in Leigh. This can now be done through fainted, children began to cry and dogs started to bark. One investigations which have proved Philip’s connection to Leigh. child broke his arm among all the jostling." At the time she was sunk the Pomeranian was carrying a cargo Hetherington relied in his defence on the right of every of Fuller’s earth for Messrs Daulton & Co for manufacturing Englishman to place what he wanted on his head. plumbs and crucibles at the Royal Daulton Factory, along with other general cargo. The wreck of the Pomeranian is an official war grave. SHINE A LITTLE LIGHT LADY OF LEIGH? Did you know that the world’s first screw-pile lighthouse was built by a blind Irish engineer, Alexander Mitchell. It was constructed in 1838 at the mouth of the Thames and was known as the Maplin Sands lighthouse. A screw-pile lighthouse is a lighthouse which stands on piles that are screwed into sandy or muddy sea or river bottoms. Does anyone recognise this lady. The Photo was taken by James & Co studio in Southend and bears no identification. Almost certainly she is from Leigh and possibly related to or employed by Mr and Mrs J H Johnson. Is she in your family album too? If so Linda Marshall would love to know who she is. Please contact the Heritage Centre or [email protected] if you have any information about The Maplin Sands Lighthouse her. 2 There is also a lovely account of Stan, talking to Harry Day, FOR ONE WEEK, AND ONE WEEK the drummer in the Palace resident band. Stan was unwinding ONLY after the evening’s performance at the Odeon and in conversation with Harry learned that he had just become a An article in Leighway about Fred Karno led to another father. Harry and Stan celebrated by visiting Harry’s address in serendipitous meeting in the Heritage Centre with Roger Fairfax Drive and ‘wetting the baby’s head’. Another person Robinson, a leading light in SAPS AT SEA, the Southend recalled that Laurel and Hardy visited fortune teller Madame ‘TENT’ of the Laurel and Hardy Appreciation Society, Renee in her booth on Palace Hill. Apparently for a few years known as Sons of the Desert, whose branches ‘tents’ exist in after she proudly displayed a poster of Laurel and Hardy with a many countries each group taking a name of one of their signed inscription that read “To Madame Renee, Many thanks films. for the excellent reading. Next time we will wash our hand” The Tent in Southend was formed in 1998, and meets every They topped the bill of the variety show at the Odeon, which month, to enjoy the laughter, fun and special magic of Laurel included ten other acts amongst which were Archie Elray a and Hardy. ventriloquist, the Great Cingalee magician, Lorraine the singing For one week in August 1952, the comedy partners, stayed and cartoonist and ace accordionists, Mackenzie Reid and Dorothy. performed in Southend. Roger has very kindly allowed us to But the audience had come to see Stan and Ollie and their 30 use information from his article about the duo’s visit .
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