Some days the comments are more interesting than the blog. Some days new comments on yesterday's post are more interesting than today's. And some days somebody slaps a really interesting comment on a really ancient post where you'd never ever notice it (unless you were me). Here's two you missed.
Henry Allingham on Harrington Hill Post from Monday, June 22, 2009 Comment from Friday July 3, 2009 "My great-grandparents lived at 39 Harrington Hill in 1911, having moved to the area from a tiny village called Radwinter in Essex sometime before 1887. The family lived in, or near, Harrington Hill from that time to at least 1930, when my great-uncle was still living at no. 39. Other members of my family also migrated from Essex, from about 1871, when Clapton at the time was a small village, just outside Hackney, and boasted just one farm. I'm running a family history project centred on Harrington Hill, so if anyone would like to read it and/or participate, visit my website or email me at drbabs1@me.com. Great bit of gazeteering btw - now I definitely have to revisit (I was born in the Sally Army Mothers' Hospital in 1953, as was my father before me in 1921). Cheers." (from Dr Babs)
The Kray Brothers in Bow Post from Friday, August 29, 2003 Comment from Wednesday July 1, 2009 "From birth to 5 years of age I lived with my family in a small flat at the top of a very large house. This was 8, Wellington Way Bow. It largely remained empty whilst I was very small. I used to ride my tricycle or pedal car around huge downstairs rooms and corridors. Then it all changed and became a club. From my upstairs bedroom window I would look down and see rows of roulette tables, snooker tables and the air thick with smoke. One day the owner visited arriving in a large American car - I was so impressed. For some reason we had to meet him. I only remember that he was smiling and pressed a huge half crown coin into my hand. It was only last year, 50 years later that I realised I was living above one of the Krays gambling clubs." (from Len Holman)
