History of the Tower Hamlet Rifle Volunteers
Reproduction of an article in Cockney Ancestor, the journal of the East of London Family History Society in April 2017; by kind permission of the author. CA April 17
Pavilion Theatre Whitechapel
Here follows links which give the historic record of the Theatre, a key focus of this family history. http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/PavilionTheatreAndWonderlandWhitechapelRoad.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavilion_Theatre,_Whitechapel December 2016
Donald Connaughton Munro
A collage of the scope of his life (1902-55) from baby through to the Second World War. Photograph of photographs does not create high quality definition, but I hope the sense of the man, and his times, can be appreciated
DCM of Tonbridge OTC 1920
DCM was too young to serve in the Great War, but as a tall 16 year old in 1918 it was his misfortune to have been accosted, accompanied by his mother in the Spring holidays, by a woman who voiced her expectation that he should be serving. A white feather was not, thankfully, handed out. …
Author’s Father and Grandmother 1902
Rather more complicated to attire Mother & Son in those distant days
