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Goldsmith and Bird in Westminster

Walk About in Westminster

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Thalia and Janice caught the no 507 bus from Waterloo station to Victoria to re visit the area where their grandparents Harry Bird and Gertrude Goldsmith lived in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Much of the area remains the same today.

Photos in this section Janice Carrera

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We passed the London Eye

We passed the London Eye

Over Lambeth Bridge

Over Lambeth Bridge
We looked back at St Mary's Parish Church Lambeth where Charles Leonard Goldsmith married his first wife Elizabeth, who sadly died and then as a widower to our
great grandmother Clara Ann Selina Clarke

We walked for a little while until we arrived at Vauxhall Bridge Road in front of the shops where Harry and Gertrude had their Confectioners at no 215. The back of the shops had a bad reputation in the early 1900's, see Booth Surveys of Victorian London.
Both Lilian and Norman were born there, Mary Ann gave the premises as her address when she married in 1912. Perhaps Dorothy lived there too?
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The back of the shops

The back of the shops
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We then wandered back towards Greycoat Place and passed Esher Street (now demolished) where Harry's parents lived at no 18 and Thora Bird was born

Corner of Esher Street today

Corner of Esher Street today
We then arrived outside Greycoat Hospital School
where Gertrude, Bertha and other female family members had been pupils
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A postcard dated 1906

A postcard dated 1906