Word: lewisham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the Conservatives had captured a prize beyond their fondest hopes: they had chalked up a net gain of 829 seats, while Labor had lost 633. The Tory tide swallowed Wandsworth, Ernie Bevin's home borough, and Herbert Morrison's own stamping grounds of Lewisham. The Conservatives registered big gains in London's working-class Hammersmith and Holborn districts. Moaned one Labor official: "It turns our stomach...
...London music hall is no accident. She calls herself a Cockney, though she was actually born in the London suburb of Lewisham, beyond the sound of Bow Bells. Her parents, she remembers, were "a bit arty-went in for pacifism, vegetarianism, Socialism and all that." At ten, she met Raymond Duncan, who sent her to study dancing with his sister Isadora. At 16, Elsa organized a London theater company, which put on one-act plays by Chekhov and Pirandello...
...leader of Britain's House of Commons, Herbert Morrison, with his wife and 400 of his East Lewisham, London constituents, took a paddleboat down the Thames to Southend for a picnic, during which Politician Morrison played prestidigitator and performed a minor political hat trick...
...Among London's hard hit districts (Croydon, Woolwich, Greenwich, Orpington, Wandsworth, Lewisham, Beckenham, West Ham, Camberwell and Lambeth) Croydon got it worst. Only 211 of its citizens were killed but 75% of its houses were damaged or destroyed (Coventry's percentage in the 1940 blitz...
...Lewisham, Mrs. Edith Robinson, 32, had quadruplets, and the news caused scarcely a ripple. Normally the chances are 600,000-to-1. But this was the fifth set born in Britain in a year, the third set born to wives of servicemen, the second set to wives of R.A.F...