OPEN
DAYS;
There
are NO Open Days in May this year, we are sorry to disappoint anyone
who was looking forward to attending. The next Open Days will be on
the first weekend in October this year. Look out for further details
here or in your Newsletter.
We
are helping with two pieces of research at the moment. If you can help
too, please get in touch by email, phone or post.
Harbinger
School Centenary:
One hundred years ago this
year, a new school building was completed just off Westferry Road between
British Street (now Harbinger Road) and Cahir Street.
This was the rebuilt London County Council school, replacing the one
built in 1873 by the London School Board. The Board School itself had
replaced one of the Island’s first institutions of public education,
the British School (financed and run by the British and Foreign Bible
Society) which had stood on the site since 1846.
In 1929 or thereabouts, British Street was re-named Harbinger Road and
the school too took on the new name to become Harbinger Road School
(now simply Harbinger School).
Staff, pupils, parents and carers at the school are now planning to
celebrate the 100th birthday of the building They are working on a series
of events to mark the occasion and hope to involve anyone who has past
associations with it. You may be a former pupil, dinner lady, caretaker,
or teacher, or may have someone in your family tree who was connected
with the school. Please get in touch so that you can take part and share
your memories and your knowledge with the present generation.
Island History has been asked to help with collecting
and presenting material about the history of the school. It has looked
out over 100 years of Island history - including the Great Depression,
the Blitz and redevelopment. Its former pupils are scattered all over
the world - but let us hear from you!
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Newsletter Renewal
Time
Your March/April Newsletter
includes a form for the renewal of your subscription. Please renew soon
and please also send a donation towards the cost of our rent, if you
possibly can!
The Island
Calendar 2008
If you bought
an Island Calendar for 2008, to keep or give as a present, then you may
have already noticed an error in Months September and December. These
two months start on a Sunday, in fact they should start on a MONDAY. You
can put this right yourself, with a pen, or email us for corection slips
which can be glued into place.
Sorry about that!
There are a few
Calendars left, at £8.00 including postage from Island History,
197 East Ferry Road, London E14 3BA.
Two Brave
Young Women
Sometime in June this year there
will be a ceremony at the old Millwall Fire Station to commemorate the
lives of Violet Pengelly and Joan Bartlett, two young firewomen who were
killed in 1940 at Cubitt Town School, whilst on duty with the Auxiliary
Fire Service.
We hope to tell more of the
story of their young lives in our May/June Newsletter and on this website.
In the meantime, if you knew either of them, or their families, or if
you were connected with the WAFS yourself and would like to attend the
ceremony, please let us know at Island History.
The March/April
Island History News
is out now and includes family
history enquiries and photographs and an article about Millwall Park.
To subscribe to the Newsletter please see the page on this website.
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