Word: woodford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd rose to tackle a question in the House of Commons, there were rafter-rattling cheers, and the Right Honorable Member for Woodford, Sir Winston Churchill, walked in through the great oak doors on his first visit to the House in four months. Pale and less cherubic than usual, the old parliamentarian made his way to a corner spot near the Treasury Bench, chatted with members from both sides, voted twice with the government on minor issues. Next day Churchill's chauffeur-driven Humber made a turn on Parliament Square, collided...
...shepherd of the flock in tidy, suburban Woodford, just outside Manchester, the slim, silver-haired Rev. Philip St. John (rhymes with Injun) Wilson Ross, Cambridge '26, was irreproachable. On call to his parishioners for religious consolation at any hour, he was also arch and sporting at children's church picnics, full of charm at meetings of the church mothers, and a lively, intelligent man of the world with the businessmen of the local vestry. There were those, of course, whose evil tongues sought mischief in gossip over the frequent calls paid by the Rev. Mr. Ross on Wealthy...
...three years later, on holiday with his wife and child in Wales, Philip Ross went out one day for his customary morning swim-and was never seen again. All that was left of him were his clothes and his footprints on the beach. Eileen Ross went back to Woodford in mourning. The parishioners held a memorial service and raised ?600 to build her a bungalow, and the bishop appointed a temporary vicar for Woodford until Ross's death should be declared official, as in due time...
...Woodford outside London, a familiar old party arrived at the vote-counting, slightly teary-eyed and fumbling for a misplaced cigar, to learn that his plurality, while down almost 3,000 from 1951, was still a robust 15,808. "We wish you a long and happy life," said his defeated Laborite opponent. "I've already had that," grunted So-year-old Sir Winston Churchill...
...Hecklers. One familiar rumbling voice was unheard during the campaign's first week. Retired only five weeks from No. 10 Downing Street, Sir Winston Churchill was nominated without opposition in his old constituency of Woodford. In Eden's opening campaign speech to the country, Churchill was not even referred to. "There is of course no gratitude in politics," commented the Manchester Guardian. "But it... does seem a little curious that the Tory Party should have dropped Sir Winston . . . absolutely, as if he had become a liability, almost an outcast." Before the week was out, Eden dispatched an amends...