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When a Mitford sister slummed it in Rotherhithe
Katherine Johnston (25 January, 2021)
The reality of life in one of London’s most overcrowded, and poorest areas, soon hit with full force
Jessica Mitford
It may seem like an unlikely London home for a member of one of England’s most famous aristocratic families, but in the 1930s the so-called ‘Red Sheep’ of the Mitford sisters found herself slumming it by the docks of Rotherhithe.
Jessica Mitford was the second youngest child of Conservative peer David Freeman-Mitford, Baron Redesdale, and his wife Sydney Bowles.
Among her siblings were celebrated novelist Nancy of Love in a Cold Climate fame and notorious Nazi sympathiser Diana; the wife of Oswold Mosley.
By AGNES McPHILEMY While a small number of Borehamwood s older citizens, may remember the anti-fascist uprisings in Morocco and Spain that sparked off the Spanish Civil War, few will have experienced these first hand. Miriam Beghin, 87, who lives in Borehamwood, is one exception. She was sent out to the battlefields of Spain aged just twenty, to nurse the sick and wounded. Not only did young Miriam have to put the bloodied casualties of Franco s fascist troops together again, she herself was injured in the fighting, and carried home with her a curious momento. Miriam, who was born in 1916 in Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, started her nursing career at Oxford s Radcliffe Infirmary before moving to London. It was as a trainee at London s University College Hospital, that she and a few others were volunteered by a formidable matron to join the anti-fascist International Brigade and go out to work in Spain.
Sam Carr walked out of the Don Jail on a crisp autumn day in 1942. He had been living underground for two years, and detained for the previous month. While the Canadian government was concerned that Carr and his Communist comrades would hamper the war effort, this kind of disruption had not been their goal ever since Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. Carr now wanted to mobilize the Canadian public advocating for conscription, no-strike pledges from unions, and the immediate invasion of Europe in order to preserve the “Workers’ Paradise.” And he would not stop there. Less than a month after his release from prison, Carr began recruiting spies for Soviet military intelligence.