From the Irish Times: "In the grim 1950s, 40,000 people left Ireland every year to emigrate to Britain. They built the roads and repaired the bombed out buildings of post-war Britain. They staffed the hospitals, the factories and the railways of a booming country while the economy stagnated at Ireland. It is estimated that half of all Irish people born in the 1930s emigrated, the large majority to Britain."
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Irish immigrants
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The Forgotten Irish
The Forgotten Irish In commemoration of that generation of post World War II ...
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Rotary International
An international organisation with the purpose of bringing together business and professional people, to provide humanitarian service, goodwill and peace around the world. It was formed in Chicago ...
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Sir Reginald Rowe
Wrote the forward to the 1942 biography of Octavia Hill by E. Moberly Bell. The Improved Tenements Association was set up in 1900. From The London Journal: "As a concession to the societies, and t...
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St Marylebone Almshouses
Funded from Count Woronzow's will. Built in 1836 and then re-built on the same site in 1965. Occupy the west corner at the junction of St John’s Wood Terrace and Woronzow Road. Lots more info at...
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London Irish Centre
The charity provides care, culture and community to the Irish across London, working from the iconic London Irish Centre in Camden Town.
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Helena Gilluley
She was born as Helena Blanche Biggs on 27 September 1898 in Clerkenwell and her birth was registered in Holborn. She was one of the eight children of George William Biggs (1857-1938) and Ellen Mar...
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Precision Film Studio
Founded by brothers David William and Thomas J. Gobbett, it was the first purpose-built film studio in Walthamstow. It produced few notable films, but one, 'Anarchy in England' retold the story (us...
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Ursula Mustoe
She was born as Ursula Hedwig Leier on 27 June 1929. In 1947, in the Finsbury registration district, she married Richard William Mustoe (b.1925), an Instrument Maker. Electoral registers of 1951 ...
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