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London and Middlesex / Re: Schools in Bow and Poplar area
« on: Friday 26 January 18 13:19 GMT (UK)  »
The school at the north end of St Leonards Road was St Leonards Road School. My father attended there and I have a group photo in the school yard. It was damaged during the war and demolished. They built a large block of flats on the site next to the Limehouse Cut.

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Essex / Re: Black Notley Hospital
« on: Thursday 02 April 15 00:50 BST (UK)  »
Here are another couple of BN photos. I try to pick the group photos as someone may recognise one of the characters. Not sure when the Christmas photo was but is either 1955 or 56. The other group shows the typical arrangement for "plenty of fresh air". My mother is sitting on the grass next to the nurse. My dad always said that whilst the patients were used to the cold he used to freeze when visiting. Just for him to visit was a days trek on a coach from London to the hospital. The A12 then used to meander through what are now villages. I see the photo of Dr Pollack from Frances. He look very much like the photo I have marked as Dr Paluk.

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Essex / Re: Black Notley Hospital
« on: Monday 30 March 15 14:38 BST (UK)  »
Attached are two group photos of patients in Black Notley although I believe one was taken at Passmore Edwards Convalescent home. My mother is in both. She done two spells in the hospital 1955 and late 1956. I have about 30 in all. Unfortunately some are too lare to post here.

Regards

George

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Essex / Re: Black Notley Hospital
« on: Wednesday 04 February 15 09:13 GMT (UK)  »
Just yesterday I was scanning photographs of my mothers time in Black Notley and Passmore Edwards. I have twenty or so showing various people and groups. I wrote earlier that her time there was 1955 and 1956. I was born there May 55. Only one of a doctor and the name looks like Dr Paluk. I am quite prepared to share these but if someone can give me a clue at to the best way to allow more people to access them that would be appreciated.
Regards, George

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Essex / Re: Black Notley Hospital
« on: Sunday 06 July 14 04:06 BST (UK)  »
Bit late after the original post but I have only just come across this thread.
I was born there May 1955 when my mother was a patient. Never really got the whole story but I was taken back to live with my father and grandparents after about three weeks. Not sure how long my mother stayed but it was months rather than weeks. She also had a relapse and had to do another spell probably in 1956 when the treatment had changed from surgery to drugs which I believe are still used today.

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Completed
« on: Sunday 15 July 12 16:32 BST (UK)  »
Nedster,

There were two girls born to Emily and James. Louise you have details of was born 8/1/1902 and a second born Q4 of the same year. Her name was Emily Margaret Parr. There is a record of her death in Q1 1906 aged 3. Poplar 1C 327 is the reference on FreeBMD. Not sure if you know Poplar but it had one of the highest infant mortality rates in the country for many years.

Emily went on to have five children to Charles Wade. Two boys, Charles and William and three girls Doris, Lilian and Ada, my grandmother. I knew them all when I was growing up except Lilian.

Charles Wade was a seaman on HMS Philomel and I believe he died of injuries during a conflict with Turkish troops during a landing operation of (probably) ANZAC troops during the Gallipoli campaign.

Emily never married again although she had another son to a Joseph Scourfield in 1920. The reason I heard that she never married Scourfield was that she was afraid of losing her Widows War Pension. Scourfield has been described as "a bit fly" (this from a police officer retired) and he tried to do Emily out of her pension. One of her sons gave him such a hiding when he found out that he, the son, run off to join the British Army in India for fear that he may have gone a bit too far! Such was the Wades form of justice. My Nan being one of the worst!

It does seem strange you can find no record of his death. I only joined this site yesterday hoping to find anything of my Rollinson family in Ratcliff but not a mention here. I found some of them in the 1841 census in a house with 22 people of varying families but they disappeared for the next two census.

Good luck with your search.

George

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / JAMES PARR
« on: Saturday 14 July 12 21:56 BST (UK)  »
Nedster,

Did you have any luck finding the date of death for James Parr? His marriage was to Emily Martha Tompkings born 1880 in Limehouse. They married on the 1st December 1900 and was widowed from him on 1st December 1907. She must have liked the 1st December because that was the date she married Charles Robert Wade. They would have been my Great Grandparents.

Charles Wade died in RN Hospital Hasler December 1915 from injuries recieved during WW1.

The above I obtained from a member of Genes Reunited who had carried out a lot of research into the Tomkings family.

I found a couple possibles for James Parr on GR. There is one in 1891 aged 10 in Poplar which is a stones throw from Bromley and is almost considered to be as one with Poplar. My gran was brought up and lived in Devons Road area up to the war. He would have been almost 20 (same age as Emily) by December 1900. I know the area well and lived in Poplar till I was 18.

Well I hope this is of some use to you. I have followed in GGrandfather Wades footsteps by going to sea and as its my first day off for a couple of weeks I'm off to enjoy a couple of cold beers in one of Curacao finest seafront bars.

Cheers, George

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