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IP ■■•••10 ••■• MID mono •■■•••••• mowma MIIINIMS .C77,4a (lenient Attlee statue restored and moved to Queen Mary, University of London, see John Rennie article CONTENTS: Cemetery Notes and News 2 Overshadowed by Churchill. hut rims 8 Attlee takes pride of place - John Rennie Programme Details 3 Correspondence 10 Obituaries - Res.Michael Peet and ♦ Book Revie‘%s 12 Jennifer Worth Cockney, and the Music Hall - Pat Francis S Mans Rents, Bromley St Leonard - 15 Robert Barber HMS Newsletter Autumn 21111 Editorial Note: Cemetery Notes and News The Committee members are as follows: Philip Merrick, Chairman. Doreen Kendall. fyou would like to join Doreen and Diane, Secretary. Harold Memick. Membership. and other volunteers of the East London David Behr. Programme, Ann Sansont. History Society in the Tower Hamlets Doreen Osborne. Howard Isenberg and Cemetery Park. on the second Sunday of every Rosemary Taylor. month. recording, memorials off gra.estones, you \\ ould he most welcome. hut he warned – All queries regarding membership should he it can become addictive! The thrill of addressed to Harold Memick. 42 Campbell discovering another fascinating nugget of Road. Bow. London E3 4DT. information and uncovering vet another facet of history hidden within the walls of the Enquiries to Doreen Kendall. 20 Puteaux cemetery keeps our members working away. [louse. Cranhrook Estate. Bethnal Green. London E2 ORE. Tel: 0208 981 7680. or Philip Other activities in the Tower Hamlets Mernick, email: phil a memicks.com. Cheek Cemetery Park include Open City London out the History Societys website at (formerly Open House) which takes place http://w \A w.eastIondonhistory.org. a k. this year on Sunday■ 18 September. from 11 am to 4 pm. As always we arc indebted to the contributors of this edition of the newsletter. Letters and In September the cemetery will he I 70■rs old articles on East End history and reminiscences and the Friends 2lyrs. Diane has been busy are always welcome and we make every effort researching the cemeterys history with a little to publish suitable material. Items of interest, help from Doreen. for the next Stone Stories. and any queries can be emailed to Philip Memick, who has provided us with a very So on 18 `h September Open House weekend interesting and varied selection from his there ‘1, ill be walks. games. cakes etc \\ ith mailbox. everyone involved dressed up as Victorians. Guided walks start at 11 am. 12 noon. 1.00 pm David Behr. our Programme Organiser. has and 2.00 pm. finalised the lectures for 2011. We are The A.G.M will he at four with Jeremy Batch. appreciative of the time and effort David puts the lock keeper giving us lecture on -Tw ice into contacting potential lecturers. and the height of Canary wharf. All are welcome. arranging the programme. Doreen and Diane are still hoping to pill The Newsletter is edited and typeset by together a walk around Tower Hamlets Rosemary Taylor with assistance of Philip Cernetert Park highlighting grates or Memick. and an editorial team comprising. memorials with a sporting connection. The project needs to he completed before the Doreen Kendall. Da\ id Behr. and Doreen opening of the Ol mpics in 2012, so this has Osborne. now become a matter of some urgency. To date the% has e conic up with six, hut they need a lot more to make this a iahle project. If any members base information on any-one ith a sporting connection buried or connected to the cemetery., please email them at anisod03- thenru hoo.co.uk or write to Doreen Kendall. address at the front of the newsletter. ELM Newdetter Autumn 11)1 I East London History Society Programme 2011 - 2012 Thursday May 17 East End film night Introduced 11% Rai Newton and John Tarby Thursday September 22 The Tower: the epic history of the Tower of The lectures are usually held on Thursday London evenings at 7.30 pm in the Latimer Speaker - Nigel Jones Congregational Church Hall, Ernest Street, El. Ernest Street is between Harford Street Thursday October 6 and Whitehorse Lane. off Mile End Road Images of the East End: the photographic (Opposite Queen Mary and Westfield collections of Tower Hamlets Local History College). The nearest Underground Stations Library and Archives are Mile End and Stepney Green. Bus No. Speaker - Malcom Barr-Hamilton (preceded by AGM at 6.10pm.) Suggestions and ideas for future topics and/or speakers for our Lecture Programme are always welcomed. If you can su ggest someone Thursday November 17 or indeed if you would like to else a talk East London cholera and the beginnings of yourself, please get in touch with David Behr. sanitary reform our Programme co-ordinator. either at one of Speaker - John Marriott our lectures or. alternatively . email our Chairman Philip Mernick with your comments Thursday December 8 and suggestions. Email: phiLiimernicks.com Early and East London county courts Speaker - John Bradbury 2012 update 2012 January February- to he confirmed The structures associated w ith the 2012 Olympic games and the new Westfield Shopping Centre ha‘c received plenty of Thursday March 1 publicity but somethin g that has opened Stepney Green since the Great Fire Speaker quietly is the re% amped Three Nlills Green. It - Isobel Watson was used to house the practice area for the Millennium Experience (Dome) acrobatic Thursday April 26 show then went hack to sleep as just another Exca ‘ ations of king Johns Tower and open space. It has just reopened after a major Court - Worcester House a late medieval? make-over and looks really good. The and Tudor mansion at Stepney. Green vandalised monument to the four men who Speaker - Da‘ e Sankey. died in I 9(11 has been replaced by a modern design and its northern section has been reshaped and laid out with large sculptured blocks of stone that I suspect could he the fragments of the demolished Euston Arch recently dredged front the Bow Back Jtkers. 3 wis No% sletier Autumn 201 1 He %%as a leading figure in pushin g inclusive OBITUARIES rights for all and he helped firm the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement. the East London History Society has lost two highly regarded members. and it is with deep Reverend Peet leaves behind a partner. very regret that we announce the deaths of the Re% many friends and a thriving. active. parish. Michael Peet and Mrs Jennifer Worth. Bow Church hellringers rang a special quarter peal in the rectors memory at 6pm on•riday Reverend Michael Peet 14 April. 1944 — 9 April 2011 The Funeral was held on 5 th !Ma% at Bow The Re% Michael Peet. Rector of St Marys Church. Holy Trinity Church in Bow died on April 9. at Bans Hospital. after battling cancer over the past 18 months. Jennifer Worth - 25 September 1935 - 31 May 2011 Born in Hertfordshire in 1944 Reverend Peet was ordained priest and served at Battersea. Jennifer Worth. author and musician. died on Peckham. St Dunstans in Stepney and 311 May: 201 I . aged 75. Stamford Hill before coming to Bow. Mr Peet was vicar of Holy frinity. Mile End and All Many of you have no doubt enjoyed reading Hallows Devons Road from 1989 until 2006 her bestselling Call the Midwife series. a w hen Holy Trinity merged with St Marys to trilogy based on her own experiences of term the present parish of Bow. The success orking as a midwife in the East End of oldie merger was said to be down to his London in the 1950s. now being made into a "enthusiasm and energy and his wholehearted television series for the BBC. commitment to the people of Bow.- At the age of 22 she moved to Poplar as His commitment to the commun it% and love of district midwife attached to an Anglican order London led to his interest in local history. and of nuns. The area still bore the scars of the he was well known for his encyclopaedic Second World War: one in four houses had knowledge of e% ents in and around Bow. An been demolished, and the overcrowding — she a% id historian, the rector was also an authoritty often found 12 people living in two rooms — on the past events of the area and wrote a N1as appalling. hook. Seven Parishioners of Bow. charting seven centuries of goings-on in the area. Jennifers job was to deal with some of the 50 per cent of babies horn at home, often by Two years ago Mr Peet organised a weekend gaslight and with the aid of little more than celebration of the life of former Poplar mayor water heated in the "copper-. towels and and Bow Bromley. NIP George Lansbury, words of encouragement. ho was a member of the St Mares congregation for 40 years. Sadly Rev. Michael Yet despite the squalor, she found that the East Peet did not live to enjoy a ceremony on the End of the 1950s still retained a sense of rh May unveiling a memorial plaque to the community.
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