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St Clement's Church
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Margaret Ashton
Chairperson of the North of England Society for Women’s Suffrage. Manchester’s first woman councillor. Active in women’s peace campaigns during First World War. The photograph shows her at the Manc...
Sir Rowland Hill
Initiator of the uniform Penny Post in 1840. Due to him Britain was the first country to use adhesive stamps and thus we do not have to put the name of our country on them. This is analogous to the...
Private Frank Mathews
There is some confusion over the spelling of the surname of this man. On some records it is Mathews and on other Matthews. He was born on 19 November 1884 in Chelsea, Middlesex (now Greater London)...
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Lord Donald Soper
Christian Socialist and pacifist. Born 36 Knoll Road, Wandsworth. Keen sportsman but gave up cricket when (at college we think) as the bowler, he accidentally killed the batsman. As well as under...
Holy Trinity Priory
Demolished by Henry VIII as part of the dissolution of the monasteries. Our picture shows the ruins as they were in 1826. c.1485 the priory built Bromley Hall, a manor house near the River Lea, st...
Sycamore Laundry
It began as a business run by a Mrs. Buckland, who was said to have collected laundry in a barrow and washed and ironed it at home. In l880, Alexander Leman, married Mrs Buckland's daughter, and he...
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