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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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Mahatma Gandhi with Elizabeth Fox Howard perhaps the woman standing second from left, at Kingsley Hall, Bromley-by-Bow, in 1931. Photo: Kingsley Hall Elizabeth Fox Howard was a highly courageous woman, who became friends with Mahatma Gandhi and stood up to the Third Reich. She was not afraid to take risks to break down social barriers with kindness and to give compassionate support to the most vulnerable, when the state and the majority of society reviled and rejected them. She summed up her ethos as: Alongside the purely relief work, we were always trying to carry a quiet and unostentatious message of friendship and reconciliation’.
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