Barkingside & Fairlop ¦ Love Your London ¦ (2/2) ¦ Fullwell Cross Library, Gibberd, Aston, Barnardo
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2023
- Tristán White and Sharon Crawford conclude their two-episode exploration of Barkingside & Fairlop, in IG6. They look for the home where 1965 UK's Eurovision representative Kathy Kirby used to live (on Tomswood Hill), and talk also about marathon legend Jim Peters, who lived on the same street. A trip to Fullwell Cross Library follows, designed by architect Frederick Gibberd, plus Ken Aston Square, named after the locally-born referee who modernised modern refereeing but introducing four important renovations. A visit to the pocket park follows, influenced by Gibberd's own garden in Harlow. A trip to ICHS (Ilford County High School) follows, the alma mater of Old Parkonians such as Sir Trevor Francis, Mel Tormé and many more. We reveal the story behind a prank that happened there in the 1960s, where 6th-formers painted "HM PRISON" on the school roof. We visit The Chequers, the nearby pub, where The Dubliners played, and then talk about the Barkingside Magistrates' Court and Barnardo's, the charity set up by an Irish wannabe doctor who was aghast at the poverty he found in the East End. We finish the episode visiting the village green in the middle of the cottages set up by Dr Barnardo and his wife Syrie to look after impoverished girls, plus speak to local residents Lauren, Addie and cat Coco!
CORRECTION:
At 04:16 I put up a panel saying that Kathy Kirby was bisexual. She was in fact heteroflexible. I apologise for any offence caused. However, in those days, the term "heteroflexible" wasn't around.
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AFFILIATE LINKS:
As with the last episode, we mention the New Fairlop Oak, one of the 61 Great Trees of London.
www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Trees-...
Peter Ackroyd's wonderful book "Queer City" can be read here:
www.amazon.co.uk/Queer-City-L...
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FURTHER VIEWING:
We reference a number of previous episodes during this episode. Namely:
The previous episode (1) of this series on Barkingside & Fairlop
• Barkingside & Fairlop ...
In episode 6 of our Barking & Dagenham series, we visited Farm Close, where houses were destroyed by last year's wildfires. See the full episode here:
• Barking & Dagenham ¦ L...
When talking about the history of Fullwell Cross, we refer to Ep 2 of Barking & Dagenham:
• Barking & Dagenham ¦ L...
Regarding Bobby Moore and his impact on Barking, we visit Bobby Moore Way in episode 1 of Barking & Dagenham:
• Barking & Dagenham ¦ L...
And we visit his old home in ep 3 of Barking & Dagenham:
• Barking & Dagenham ¦ L...
We talk about the Aldgate Pump, which caused the death of thousands of East Londoners. See here:
• Aldgate ¦ Love Your Lo...
Watch the full performance of Kathy Kirby at the Eurovision Song Contest 1965 here:
• 1965 United Kingdom: K...
The winning song that year, "Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son", by France Gall, can be viewed here:
• 1965 United Kingdom: K...
We showed a snippet of High Street Kensington taken in 1953.
• High Street Kensington
We recommend the channel that this video is hosted on:
/ @theundergroundmap
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RAGGED SCHOOL MUSEUM
Since filming this episode, the Ragged School Museum has reopened to the public:
raggedschoolmuseum.org.uk/
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BARNARDO'S
Find out more about Barnardo's, as well as volunteering opportunities, here:
www.barnardos.org.uk/
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FURTHER READING:
Loads of information about Ken Aston and his influence on the beautiful game can be found at:
kenaston.org/
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro: Barkingside & Fairlop, ep 2
01:27 Kathy Kirby and Jim Peters (Tomswood Hill)
05:55 Fullwell Cross Library (architect: Frederick Gibberd)
11:11 Ken Aston Square (influential referee)
17:14 Pocket park dedicated to Frederick Gibberd
19:58 ICHS (Ilford County High Street)
24:54 The Chequers (pub)
27:35 Barkingside Magistrates' Court and Youth Court
30:05 Dr Barnardo and his legacy
43:36 Outro
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Very enjoyable, I look forward to more videos.
Very great about Ken Aston, I met him and my Dad did several times. The Chequers is a very old pub but the site was at one time the police station, a very long time ago
The Village was built as a Girls Childrens home originally but by the 1960's it was mixed. It comprised of three Greens the Old Green, the Baby Green ( That's the one filmed in this video) and the Big Green. It had a School, Swimming Pool ( Outdoor) Hospital , Tennis Courts , Nursey, Adventure Playground, Dentist, Head Office ( Now the Registry) Mossford Lodge which was Dr Barnardo's actual Home. The Cottages each had an "Uncle and Aunt" with supporting "Uncles and Aunts" the main ones were married. In the 70's they started to foster out the Children and finally closed the Home in the early 80's. Barnardo's were selling off the Land since the 1970's the Hospital and mortuary and Swim pool were the first to go. Sold off to the Council , not without protest from the Children who used to tear down the building work done during the day , at night! The Clockhouse was called Cairns after a famous Victorian Barrister who donated money to the Chartity. The Girls Home was the first built in the style of a Village. Another one was the Boy's home which was in Woodford beside Claybury Hospital. It had an indoor Swimming pool.
I've spent the evening watching a lot of your video's, they are facinating, its all good stuff, you work well together, I can see you with your own T V series 😊👍
As you say it several times one thing that surprised me was pronunciation of the name of one of the pubs. In all my, almost 50 years, in Barkingside, I never heard anyone call the Fairlop Oak the Fairloh Oak. Usually it was called the Fairlop but never the Fairloh
The Church is still used today, I don't think on a weekly basis but I am not sure about that because it is an Anglican Church and I am a Catholic. For several years it was the venue for the annual Scouts District Saint George's Day service with the parade beforehand in the adjacent car park, (at the time the local Scout District was Ilford North and so Barnardo's Church was in the middle of the District. Now the District is Redbridge).
Lovely to see my friend Addie (Adeline Butt) at 41 minutes in
Before the Court buildings were put in, quite a number of years ago now, that area was a part of the Barnardo Village and a much more recent construction, the Tesco just the other side of the Court buildings, was also, formerly, part of the Barnardo's Village
It was build upon Mossford school which was apart of Dr Barnardo's village, it was a big school, the Tesco's was built over the Carol Hall , the Nursey , the Tennis Courts and Adventure Playground. In short they (Barnardos ) decimated the Village for Money,
have enjoyed you barking videos any possibility of visiting the liberty of havering I was born there would be interest on your take.Used to enjoy travelling on the steam train in barking park
Kathy Kirby's address was 43 Tomswood Hill, Ilford IG6 2HL. Not 46!
Thank you! So, two doors to the right of the poor lady I badgered on her doorstep. Thanks!
@@LoveYourLondon No, the even numbers are on the other side of the road to the odd numbers. So you'd need to cross the road. (I'm Teresa Stokes by the way, who put Kathy's other addresses on Facebook for you.)
I was shocked when you mentioned Barnardo's sent children to Australia, yet did not mention the over 30,000 children they sent to Canada between the mid 1870's and 1939 - with even a few more beng sent much later! They ranged from infancy to 18 years of age with the purpose of being indentured farm labourers and domestic servants-many as early as age 4. Barnardo's had receiving homes set up in Toronto, and Peterborough Ontario, and Winnipeg and Russell Manitoba (an industrial farm). From there, the children were sent to work for "host families - mainly farmers. We often have to remind people of the spelling of Barnardo's. We remind them it is spelled Barn, and the way to remember is that many children slept and ate in the barns - sometimes even eating the same food as the pigs or whatever was left over from the dog's food! Australia received only about 7000 children in total from Barnardo's and another major organization and their experiences are just as horrific as those who were sent to Canada. On the other hand,there were over 50 organizations and individuals given financial and social support to send children to Canada (from religous and social groups, patrons, donations and 5 governments). Dr.Barnardo was charged twice (and found guilty the first time), with what he called "philanthropic kidnapping"...believeing some children were better off being removed, even forcibly, from what he considered to be unfit or immoral parents and conditions in which a child should be living. A usual comment from most of the over 100,000 children sent to Canada, under a child migration scheme that ran from 1869 to 1948, is that they were ashamed to be a home boy or girl, and especially a Barnardo girl or Barnardo girl because of the negativity surrounding them. The appalling stories of abuse, neglect and total disregard we have from these children whom we call Canada's British Home Children, are difficult to hear, and utterly tragic! In fact, we have a few research groups and genealogical sites dedicated to increasing awareness of all of these children sent to Canada.In 2016, I visited Barkingside, where my grandmother was placed before coming to Canada. I thought it such a beautiful area now, but even more so from viewing very early photos. Unfortunately, her cottage, Daisy, had been demolished a number of years ago. Anyway, just thought you might be interested in knowing some essential Barnardo history. What we today call "errors" made in the past were standard practices and perceptions at the time...and, although Barnardo's changed their focus, the actual child migration scheme in which they were the largest player, did not actually end until 1972.
She was never bisexual she just befriended a woman who helped her when she was at her very lowest,,!
You are right. I should have written "heteroflexible" instead. I guess back then there were just the three LGB sexualities in common parlance and at the time she would have been seen then as bisexual, but today we would of course refer to her as heteroflexible.