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My Mum lived in The Ivy pub with my auntie, uncle and Nan in the 1930/40 I can’t find a photo of it anywhere

My husband’s Father was born in Poplar late 1880’s his parents ran an “off licence”. My husbands father was William Stapleton also called Willie or Harry. He had a brother Leslie as well as other siblings. He migrated to Australia after 1st ww and spent the rest of his life there

Mr Robinson lived with his wife and family at No. 150 East Ferry Road, moving in when the house was built in 1921. Due to unemployment, he and his wife made hokey-pokey, a sort of ice-cream, at the house; he then loaded a barrow and walked the streets with the cry ‘Hokey- Pokey’. “ Robbo” became a familiar figure around the Island and the hokey-pokey was very popular. To maintain the income during the winter the barrow would be loaded with baked potatoes and hot soup for sale. Eventually he took over the stall. This was a small wooden hut which enabled him to enlarge his stock to include confectionery, cigarettes, groceries and general goods. He retired in 1950s and the stall was removed.

IM looking for the parents of Fanny Abbott b 1891 in Limehouse married Stephen Philpot in 1921. And died in1957. Any info on the Abbotts will be most welcome. I have Fanny's and Stephen's children and the line from there it's just her folks im look at . Kind regards .

Looking for more information regarding my Grandparents, John George and his wife Mary Hammack(nee Adams). Married 1931, having 4 Sons and 1 daughter. I have found his wife's family, but still looking for his, born in Shadwell, and stayed in the Bethnal Green, Mile End, Tower Hamlets area. Had a brother called James Thomas who married a Sarah Jane Pullen, but no children.He was in partnership with his brother as Builder and Carpenter in 1949. Any kind of information regarding the Hammack name would be appreciated

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Nice to read your memories of the East End, I was born in 1943, same as you, but my mums family were bombed out in Haverfield Road, at the back of the Aberdeen Pub, and were evacuated to Wellington, Somerset, where I was born, after the war we returned to the East End. I went to Olga Street and Morpeth Street Schools. My Dad was a pub pianist around Bethnal Green and Bow, so I learned all the old cockney songs and later became half of a cockney duo called ’Little and Loud’. I am now retired living in Thailand. I researched my family tree and as my surname suggests I have French roots from the Huguenots who settled in Spitalfields/Bethnal Green about 1700. You can view my tree on ’Genes Reunited’ maybe we have some family in commen. Cheers Mate!

went to seabright school from 1965 to 1972
Then on to Daneford School Gosset Street Would welcome the papers from this period please

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I was born in Bethnal Green on 7th. October, 1943 in the front bedroom of 11 Royston Street. I was supposed to be born in the country, but circumstances came to pass that did not allow this to happen. As a result, I was born a cockney, and despite all efforts to educate and change me, I remain one. Being from Bethnal Green and being a cockney may not seem like much to those born elsewhere. However, ask an Irishman why he is proud of where he is born or someone from Brooklyn or The Bronx the same question. They will most likely get a faraway look in their eye and drift off to some magic place in their imagination and utter something or other that you are not likely to understand or, if you did, would not agree with. It is the same with the East End of London. Those born there are proud of this accomplishment despite having nothing to do with it. And I for one am doubly proud to come from Bethnal Green.

I know she left China in 1920 ish, I am now working to find out exactly what order she did things in. I know that she was living in Putney in 1944 and still had connections with the Chinese in London at that time. I think she was involved with various bits of missionary work, she seems to have a connection to a mission house in Gower St as well. I am guessing, but I think that she was probably in Limehouse in the mid 1920s or early 30s and may have moved over to Gower St later on, perhaps during the war. I know she used to preach in a little Tin Church in London possibly in Limehouse, she preached in Chinese! She was quite a person. I guess your great grandfather was another! I wonder what inspired him to set up the mission? Was it at the time when the Chinese were being somewhat persecuted in London and other areas?When was your gt Grandfather at the mission? I wonder if they could have met!