Like so much else, it turned up when I was looking for something quite different. An undistinguished looking medal in a red pouch, with Prince Albert looking portentous on one side and the word “exhibitor” on the other and “J Chapman, India” round the rim. My great, great, great grandfather’s exhibitor’s medal from the 1851 …
August 2019 archive
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Aug 04
A very courteous subversion
Markhouse Road was notorious long before it was officially a road. When Walthamstow was a tangle of villages it had its share of grand houses. The Mark House, on the site of the parish boundary, stood until the 1890s. And the Low Hall, one of the mediaeval manor houses, in its final days presiding over …
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