CHANGES AT ST JOHN’S IN LATE VICTORIAN TIMES Although the new church had been built at the start of Queen Victoria’s ...
Bernard was born in Lewes on 17/08/1898 while his parents Levi and Alice Francis were living in Sun Street. Shortly ...
The Crossbarry Ambush took place at a rural crossroads in County Cork, and was one of the most significant battles in the Irish War of Independence.
Geoffrey was born in Norwich on 23/09/1900 and baptised at St Augustine, Norwich on 28/10/1900. His father, Frederick Mill Hotblack ...
Known as ‘The last of the Pre-Raphaelites’, Henry Holiday is best known for his painting ‘Dante and Beatrice’ (1883) which ...
Lt Hotblack , of the Essex Regiment was serving in Ireland during the Irish War of Independence, when he and ...
James Powell in 1834 bought a firm of glassmakers, which had been at Whitefriars, East London since around 1700. After ...
Memories of a former Choir Boy at St John’s sub Castro…. In 1989, St John’s celebrated its 150th Anniversary and published ...
This web page is about the history of the present church, built in 1840. However, the history of a church ...