| chapman Billy 2005-02-21, 5:49 pm |
| David Richerby wrote:
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> Actually, at that time, the constituent parts of what are now Greater
> London were parts of the surounding counties. (I believe this continued
> until 1972, though I may be wrong.)
Sir Keith Joseph the author of this less than divine comedy to reform
local government now reposes with Ruggieri the Archbishop. :-)
A friend of mine from Middlesborough insists he's a Yorkshireman, :-)
then there's the "County" of Avon: but the ultimate crime which
condemned Sir Keith, who was aka as the "mad monk of monetarism", to the
Inferno for all time was his decision to "abolish" the ancient shire of
Middlesex. :-)
Blackheath (south-east London) was
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> part of Kent and is about fifteen miles from a variety of places that can
> reasonably be described as North London -- places as far out as Golders
> Green, Wood Green, Walthamstow and what have you.
As a Londoner I still consider Blackheath to be in Kent, "Blackheath,
Kent" was part of the address I used as a club secretary when posting to
members from that area. It was also part of the address supplied by said
members.
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> Clapham would have been in Surrey at this time and is also within about
> fifteen miles of all the places I mentioned above.
I'm sure that David Richerby knows that Clapham was and is an important
railway junction. It would have been relatively straightforward, wartime
conditions permitting, to travel to Chiswick which would probably have
been where West London Chess Club met: Vera Menchik was definitely a
member of that club, along with Sir George Thomas; they have a notice,
or at least they used to, to that effect.
The local library should have facilities for accessing the records of
the local newspaper of that time, which ought to be near definitive, she
would almost certainly have warranted a mention. I generally avoid
"Sarth" London, but if I'm around there sometime in the future I might
just 'ave a peek, it should be less than a pony to find out. ;-)
Regards,
Simon.
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