Dot Smyth, from Stepney Green, celebrated her 100th birthday.
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Dot Smyth has a birthday card at her home in Stepney Green sent from the Queen to celebrate reaching a special milestone.
She was able to catch up with friends and swap memories at her 100th birthday party in Hawthorn Green care home.
Dot was a regular at Bethnal Green Mission Church in Cambridge Heath Road and had a catch up with her priest Michael Houston and friends Patricia Davis and Rory Pagel Wilks.
“I have known Dorothy for many years,” Rory recalled. “She was at my wedding and we look on her as a ‘grandmother’ to our three children.”
AJ 40 under 40: Stefanie Rhodes and Tom Routh
17 December 2020 By Will Ing, illustration by Simon Hayes
The AJ 40 under 40 architects co-founded Gatti Routh Rhodes after winning the commission to redevelop an east London church
Stefanie Rhodes and Tom Routh, both 39, did not know each other well when they co-founded their practice. It began over pizza in Bethnal Green, east London, when they were brought together by their mutual friend – and now co-director – Richard Gatti, who is 45. They discussed an emerging commission to redevelop a nearby church, which had been obliged to integrate homes into its new premises to pay the development costs.