Church Hill, leading from Hoe Street to Prospect was once known as Parsonage Hill, and was where the Rectory Manor house once stood in Walthamstow. In 1784-5 a large three storey house was built on the opposite side of the road, later known as Church Hill House. It was a typical gentleman’s red brick house, and was set in large gardens with an orchard, and meadlowland bounded by Hoe Street to the west and to where St Mary’s Road is today to the south. In the early 19th century the house was one of the residences of the Sims family who also owned a house in London Street. The Sims were actively involved with slavery in Jamaica; merchant John Sims had owned the Holland Estate in Trelawney, and his daughter Frances married James William Freshfield, founder of legal firm Freshfields who had plantation owners amongst their clients, and were involved in later compensation claims. John’s lawyer son Charles James Sims was a resident slave owner and Member of the Assembly for St
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Following the disappearance of Sarah Everard a number of vigil events called Reclaim These Streets have been organised for this weekend.
Last week Sarah Everard disappeared on her walk home from a friend’s house in Clapham. A police officer was arrested as part of the investigation and yesterday the police said he was arrested for kidnap and then later murder, as well as a separate offence of indecent exposure. Last night police uncovered unindentified human remains in a woods in Kent.
After an outcry on social media yesterday at the lack of safety for women on the streets a number of events have been set up to demand safety on the streets for women.
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Steuart Bedford on Aldeburgh Beach (photo: Paul Mitchell)
Steuart Bedford, who conducted the world premiere and first recording of Benjamin Britten’s final opera,
Death in Venice, in 1973, has died. He was 81.
The grandson of the opera singer Liza Lehmann and the composer, author, miniature painter and inventor Herbert Bedford, son of the singer Lesley Duff, and brother of the composer David Bedford and singer Peter Lehmann Bedford, Steuart Bedford studied at Oxford University and the Royal Academy of Music. He made his conducting debut in 1964, at the helm of the Oxford Chamber Orchestra. From 1965 to ’67, he was on the staff at Glyndebourne, and made his professional conducting debut in 1967. From 1965 he was a professor at the Royal Academy.