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Bermondsey
and Rotherhithe funeral director BARRY ALBIN runs his own
business, FA Albin & Sons on the border of Rotherhithe and
Bermondsey. Barry has recently published a second book following his
own TV series. After finding fame with his first autobiographical tale Don’t
Drop the Coffin, TV bosses made a series based around his business.
The follow-up book Final Departures reveals little known
details about famous deaths. Last November Barry received an Honorary
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VALERY ALLIEZ is a City
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JOHN BEASELEY was a Social Worker in the East End for nearly 24 years and has been researching and writing about the history of Southwark since 1972. He has written eighteen publications on our borough and 300 articles for the South London Press. Southwark Remembered and Southwark Revisited contain over 200 of those articles. John Beasley is editor of Peckham Society News and Volunteer Co-ordinator for Hope UK’s drug education work in Southwark and a member of the Society of Authors. |
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Founder Member of the Southwark
and Lambeth Archaeological Society, BRIAN BLOICE has organised
the Streatham Society Local History Group in recent years. For all his
working life Brian was an analytical chemist employed by Southwark
Council Public Health Service. Since early retirement he has run
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NEIL
BRIGHT has had a lifelong fascination with the First World War
and in recent years with the Blitz. Neil has his own research company,
Beaucourt Research Ltd; Beaucourt being the village on the Somme where
his Great Uncle Harry was killed in November 1916. Neil has visited
Harry’s grave and indeed the Western Front many times. Since forming
his own company, Neil has undertaken research for people who want their
ancestors’ First World War service traced. In 2006 Neil was asked to
participate in the ‘Kennington Park Trench Shelter’ project and has
given talks to schools and local groups on the subject. Neil is a
member of several societies including the Western Front Association and
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CLARE BUNKHAM is the Archivist of the Sainsbury Archive at the Museum
in Docklands. She was Deputy Group
Archivist at Prudential plc between 1999-2004 and has been responsible
for the Sainsbury Archive since Nov 2004, managing its relocation to
the
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CLIVE
CHAMBERS comes from a family of
engineers; a grandfather ran traction engines, his father invented shoe
making machinery. Trained at |
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ALISTAIR DOUGLAS is a senior site supervisor at Pre-Construct
Archaeology, with projects such as the Roman bathhouse at Shadwell in
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GILL FRIAR is a keen gardener who studied horticulture to degree
level many years ago. Four years ago she
followed a short course in garden history. Part
of this was to make a brief presentation on a garden of her choice, and
Gill chose John Evelyn’s garden at
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ALAN GARTRELL has degrees in Mediaeval English Literature
and Literature in Crisis; he has a MBA from |
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ROSEMARY
GILL is an experienced teacher
with a background in theatre. She has been part of the |
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PETER GURNETT. Former Engineer with the Deptford firm of J. Stone & Co., whose history he wrote for Lewisham Local History Society, and a past Redriffe Chronicle editor. He both instituted and chaired the “Marlowe 400” Festival at Deptford in 1993, and among other writings has produced guides to both Deptford’s historic churches. Lately specialising in the history of the Deptford Creek area. |
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Well known as a writer, speaker
and researcher on local and architectural history, STEPHEN HUMPHREY
is especially interested in churches, writing The Churches and
Cathedrals of London in 2000. He edited the Blue Guide to
English Churches and Chapels (2 vols. 1991), and between 1979 and
1991, was Hon. Sec of the Ecclesiological Society; he arranges and
leads tours to churches throughout Of local history interest, Stephen has compiled several books of old photographs, covering Southwark, Bermondsey, Rotherhithe, Camberwell, Dulwich and Peckham, including Southwark The Twentieth Century. He also wrote The Story of Rotherhithe {1997) and Southwark in Archives (2000) for Southwark Local Studies Library. Stephen’s talk on the Marshalsea Prison continues our Dickens theme following in the footsteps of his successful walk with the group in 2002.
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BOB
JEFFERIES a serving police
officer of some 31 years, 16 of them on the River Thames, is our guide
to Wapping River Police Station. The current station is on the site of
the original Thames Police Office founded in 1798, the birthplace of
modern policing in this country. A small museum traces the 200+ years
history of the world’s oldest police force. It consists of the hardware
and archives that make up the history of policing
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Following
training as a teacher at
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DOUG KILLOCK – of Pre-Construct Archaeology, conducted the year-long
excavations at
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RICHARD LINDSAY, curator of Millwall Football Club museum will come along with two former FC members to regale us with personal anecdotes of events in the Club’s history. Although not illustrated with slides, Richard will bring photo albums and other memorabilia associated with the Club’s highs and lows from its formation in 1885 in East Ferry Road, Isle of Dogs, when it was one of three clubs in the area, until it moved over to New Cross in 1910 where it remained until 1993 then moving to its current ground by South Bermondsey station.
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MARGARET
MAKEPEACE studied history at
the
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CAROLINE MARAIS is Head of Centre of the www.thepumphouse.org.uk
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WENDY
MATTHEWS trained as a
physiotherapist at
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NATASHA McENROE is Curator of Dr. Johnson’s House. She
has previously worked for the National Trust and
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An
executive member of the Greater London Industrial Archaeological
Society MARY MILLS has worked on local history in Greenwich
for many years, specialising in the local gas industry while a student
at Thames Poly in the 1970s. Mary was one of the founders of the
Greenwich Industrial History Society and is also a Greenwich Councillor
for
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GERRY MOSS is professionally a chemist. He is currently Chairman of the Surrey Industrial Heritage Group (SIHG) and a member of the Gunpowder and Explosives History Group.
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RICHARD
NORMAN is an
active member of the Cinema Theatre Association, a society who supports
the research and preservation of the old style cinema/theatre buildings. He is also co-author in a book (soon to be
published) that fully documents the history of Southwark’s buildings of
entertainment.
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ROGER
OWEN started work as an
apprentice in the Marine Department of B. R. at Holyhead, and later
undertook a sandwich course at college in Since retirement, he has been
undertaking research on the Post Office Steam Packets. He plays the
euphonium in the Beckenham Concert Band, which, until 2000, had a
regular engagement during the London Marathon, playing in the Docker's
Shed at
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Past Chair of the RBLHG and former Redriffe Chronicle Editor, STUART RANKIN a career railwayman for over 30 years is a freelance writer, lecturer and photographer. He has written several works on aspects of railway history and about the docks and shipbuilding yards in Rotherhithe. In 2000, he organised the symposium Thames Shipbuilding and Thames Built Ships, held at Nelson Dock and edited publication of the Proceedings. Stuart is a member of the judging panel for the annual National Railway Heritage Awards, and is a contributor to the New Dictionary of National Biography. He has written two new illustrated leaflets describing walks around the Surrey Docks area, one of which he will be taking the group around in July.
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LEN REILLY is an archivist, librarian and local historian of south
east London. He has worked in the local studies libraries of Greenwich,
Bexley,
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DIANA
RIMEL, lecturer, local
historian and writer, has taught for the former ILEA,
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KEN SMITH is one of the key members of the Brewery History
Society, the
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Although trained as a sculptor, for the past 20 years ROBERT
STEPHENSON has taught in adult education – his main subjects are
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After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, ALAN THORNTON spent most of the last 30 years in various project management roles, largely within the offshore oil and gas industry. Since 1993, he worked as an independent consultant within the Railway Industry. Alan has undertaken various assignments within both Railtrack plc and London Underground Limited. He has an ongoing involvement with a rolling stock supply company, and since August 2000 has been retained as LUL's Project Manager for the Northern Extension to the East London Line..
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GILLIAN TINDALL is a British writer.
Among her better-known works are City
of Gold: Biography of Bombay and Celestine: Voices from a French
Village. Her novel Fly Away
Home won
the Somerset Maugham Award in 1972.
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Chartered
Civil Engineer MALCOLM TUCKER spent much of his spare time
over the past 30 years recording details of More recently he was part of the
team which produced the special London Docklands volume of the
Penguin Pevsner's Buildings of England series, and has
contributed to other
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JACK VAUGHAN was born 1917 at Woolwich, the son of a turner
at the Royal Arsenal who sadly died 1918. Jack's education began at After war service with REME,
including time spent with the "Desert Rats" he returned to the Arsenal
in 1946, and completed his education to achieve Associate Membership of
Institution of Mechanical Engineers. [He is still a full member
M.I.Mech E]. After spells with RAE Famboro, [Aircraft, fighters &
bombers etc], RARDE Fort Halstead [Guided Missiles] and D.I. Arm.
(Development of Inspection Methods for Armaments] at the Arsenal, Jack
retired at 60 from MoD. He finally taught Engineering at Jack's main interests now are repairing antique clocks, and local industrial history.
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CHRISTINE WAGG works as legal assistant to the Peabody Trust
which, owning or managing over
19,000 dwellings, is London's largest charitable housing association. She
regularly deals with enquiries about the
Trust's history and early records
and in 1994 was responsible for arranging the transfer of the Trust's
archive collection to London Metropolitan Archives in Clerkenwell.
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GAYNOR WINGHAM has a professional background in social work
and education, and now runs a consultancy/training business and is a
freelance journalist. She has been interested in researching her own
family history, which stretches from South Wales to As part of the street's centenary
millennium celebrations she researched the history of the
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