WestEustonPurplePoets
West Euston Time Bank
Writer-in-Residence
Kim Morrissey

The Purple Poets hold their workshops
at The Crypt every Thursday 1 - 3.

PURPLE POETS' COMMEMORATION
projected day: March 9th  2011

SAINT LEONARD WINDOW by M.E.A. ROPE

TALK NATIONAL POETRY DAY 2006.

ADDENDUM AND NOTES 2009 AND ON-GOING

ADDENDUM International Womens' Day 2009:  
Rope's  nephew, Arthur Rope, has reproduced and transcribed a personal letter to the Rope family from M.E.A. Rope, discussing the media interest in her modern Saint Leonard panel, and included a newspaper clipping and phtograph of Rope with her stained glass windows, with her response to the Media interest: 'I was soon rung up again. Is that Putney 3941? Can I speak to Miss Rope etc... It is the Press Association speaking. I have just been down to St Augustine's Haggerston in connection with that remarkable series etc. etc. Now can you tell me if it is usual to put a public house or a bus etc. in a stained glass window: isn't it rather unusual? I told him I knew another window, not mine, in which there was a bus. (Marga put one in once).'  
http://www.arthur.rope.clara.net/oldsurprise3.htm


NOTES

¹A Short History of the Number 6 Bus  

The bus represents a pun which the congregation of Saint Augustine, Haggerston would have all shared,  as the Number 6 bus is shown in front of Saint Leonard's Church, Shoreditch High Street, in the 'Saint Leonard' stained glass panel (1933).

After 1992, the Number 6 bus has changed to run from Waterloo to Willesden (northwest). Before 1992,  Route Number 6 buses used to run through to Hackney Wick from Aldwich (via what is now route 26), which is why the Number 6 bus is shown in front of Saint Leonard's Church, Shoreditch High Street.  

QUOTE: The route was changed in July 1992 to remove the sharing of the route between Willesden and Ash Grove garages, which were in different divisions of London Buses, in the run-up to privatisation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Buses_route_26#Route_departing_Hackney_Wick

Bus Route 26  [circa 2009]
[follows original Route 6 from Aldwych to Hackney Wick]

Route departing Hackney Wick Hackney Wick Eastway Wick Road Kenton Road Valentine Road Well Street Mare Street Cambridge Heath Station Hackney Road Shoreditch High Street (Saint Leonard's Church) Norton Folgate Bishopsgate Liverpool Street station Bishopsgate Threadneedle Street Bank Station Queen Victoria Street Mansion House Station Queen Victoria Street Friday Street Cannon Street St Paul's Churchyard [City Thameslink Station] Ludgate Hill Ludgate Circus Fleet Street Strand Aldwych

Route departing Aldwych Aldwych Strand Fleet Street Ludgate Circus [City Thameslink Station] Ludgate Hill St Paul's Churchyard Cannon Street Mansion House Station Queen Victoria Street Bank Station Threadneedle Street Bishopsgate Liverpool Street station Bishopsgate Norton Folgate Shoreditch High Street (Saint Leonard's Church) Hackney Road Cambridge Heath Station Mare Street Well Street Cassland Road Wick Road Hackney Wick Eastway

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Buses_route_26#Route_departing_Hackney_Wick

² The Suffolk Arms Public House in the M.E.A. Rope stained glass window 'Saint Leonard' (1933) was a real pub; one of the neighbourhood pubs close to Saint Augustine church.
The Suffolk Arms, 76 Boston Street, St. Augustine, Shoreditch.
PUBLICANS OF THE SUFFOLK ARMS: http://deadpubs.co.uk/LondonPubs/Shoreditch/SuffolkArms.shtml
OTHER PUBS IN THE AREA:
http://historyofstratford.co.uk/LondonPubIndex/HistoryofPubsinLondon23.shtml
ADDENDUM 2009: FOR AN ACCOUNT OF M.E.A. ROPE'S LOVE OF PUBS:
http://www.arthur.rope.clara.net/oldsurprise3.htm

SUFFOLK ARMS 76 Boston Street Year/Publican or other Resident/Relationship to Head and or Occupation/Age/Where Born/Source. 1839/Thos Reed/../../../Pigots Directory **** 1841/Thos Reed/../../../Post Office Directory **** 1848/Andrew Motion/../../../Post Office Directory **** 1851/Andrew Motion/../../../Kellys Directory **** 1856/Thos Penny/../../../Post Office Directory **** 1869/J Howell/../../../Post Office Directory **** 1881/Joseph Howell/Licensed Victualler/41/Stafford/Census **** 1881/Mary Ann Howell/Wife/42/Bishopsgate, Middlesex/Census 1881/Samuel Howell/Son/18/Bishopsgate, Middlesex/Census 1881/Lillian Howell/Daughter/16/Holborn Fetter Lane/Census 1881/Joseph Howell/Son, Temporary Clerk Civil Service/15/Shoreditch, Middlesex/Census 1881/Henry John Howell/Son/13/v/Census 1881/Nellie Mary Howell/Daughter/8/Shoreditch, Middlesex/Census 1881/Elsie Amy Howell/Daughter/4/Shoreditch, Middlesex/Census 1881/Harriett Fletcher/Domestic Servant/24/Stafford/Census 1882/Joseph Howell/../../../Post Office Directory **** 1884/Joseph Howell/../../../Post Office Directory **** 1891/Samuel Howell & Mrs Lilian Scarnell/../../../Post Office Directory **** 1895/Thomas Wilson/../../../Post Office Directory **** 1899/Thomas Wilson/../../../Post Office Directory **** 1910/John Horman/../../../Post Office Directory **** 1915/Francis East/../../../Post Office Directory **** 1921/Frances East London Street Directory in 1921 1938/Jn Victor Gulliver/../../../Post Office Directory **** 1944/Wm T Quinn/../../../Post Office Directory **** London Street Directory in 1921 -Boston Street 39 Crabb Mrs Emma Eliza, beer retailer 71 Lane Joseph Wm, chandlers shop 76 Suffolk Arms, Frances East 94 Powley Mrs Emma, chandlers shop 103 & 105 Holsworth Robert, sack & bag maker from the wonderful site:  http://deadpubs.co.uk/LondonPubs/Shoreditch/SuffolkArms.shtml

The Suffolk Arms (76 Boston Street) wasn't the only pub on Boston Street, close to the Saint Augustine Church.
From Kevan's Historic Pub site, again:

39 Boston Street, Hackney Road, Shoreditch
Year/Publican or other Resident/Relationship to Head and or Occupation/Age/Where Born/Source.
1881/Karper Peggweiler/Grocer & Beer Retailer/48/Switzerland/Census ****
1881/Katharina Peggweiler/Mother in Law, House Keeper, Widow/59/Germany/Census
1895/Mrs Charlotte Finch/Beer Retailer/../../Post Office Directory ****
1910/Harry Dinsdale/Beer Retailer/../../Post Office Directory ****
39 Crabb Mrs Emma Eliza, beer retailer
London Street Directory 1921

There were many other pubs to choose from in the neighbourhood:
Tile Kiln, 17 Tuilerie Street, Shoreditch
24 York Street, Shoreditch
Duke of Sussex, 94 Goldsmiths Row, Shoreditch
Globe, 128 Goldsmiths Row, Shoreditch
Goldsmiths Arms, 81 Goldsmiths Row, Shoreditch
71 Goldsmiths Row, Shoreditch
153 Goldsmiths Row, Shoreditch
Halfway House, Goldsmith Row, Shoreditch
The Champion, Dunloe Street, Shoreditch
http://gamesforlondon.com/LondonPubIndex/HistoryofPubsinLondon23.shtml

³  Margaret Edith Aldrich Rope (born July 29th 1891 - died March 9th 1988).  Amongst friends, M.E.A. Rope was known as 'Tor' (a family nickname, short for 'tortoise') and used the symbol of the tortoise to sign some of her works. This 'tortoise' is the way M.E.A.Rope signed her saint George Panel. More information about the talented Rope family of artists can be found on a website maintained by Arthur Rope (Tor's nephew and Marga's cousin).
source   www.arthur.rope.clara.net/index.html


⁴ Listed building details Location: Church of St Mary Magdalene
Street: Munster Square
Grade: II*
Reference No: 798-1-117092
Date of listing: Jun 10 1954 12:00AM
Details art and architecture in the Church and Crypt and Notes:
"Windows in north aisle of crypt filled by 1975 with delightful stained glass from St Augustine’s Haggerston, of 1930-2 by Margaret Rope."
http://mycamden.camden.gov.uk/gdw/T/ListedBuildingDetail?LbNo=1170&xsl=ListedBuildingDetail.xsl

From: 'St. Mary Magdalene, Munster Square', Survey of London: volume 21: The parish of St Pancras part 3: Tottenham Court Road & neighbourhood (1949), pp. 140-141.
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=65198
LXXXIII—CHURCH OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE, MUNSTER SQUARE
QUOTE: This is a daughter church of Christ Church, Albany Street, and it owes its foundation to the Rev. Edward Stuart, who was one of the assistant clergy at Christ Church .... The architect was Richard Cromwell Carpenter (1813–1855), the designer of two Brighton churches, SS. Stephen and Andrew, and S. Paul ..... The church was consecrated on the 22nd April, 1852. The north aisle was not built until 1884 and was then carried out by Richard H. Carpenter, following his father's design .....
The rood-beam and figures, as well as the chapel screens, were designed by J. T. Micklethwaite, the latter being a memorial to the Rev. W. H. H. Jervois. The aumbrey in the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament was designed by Paul Waterhouse who was also responsible for the 1914–18 war memorial, a crucifix on the exterior of the west front. The memorial inscription to the founder is on the lowest step to the altar and a tablet to the second vicar, the Rev. Frederick J. Ponsonby, designed by Norman Shaw, is on the north wall, just west of the piscina. The stained glass includes the east window, designed by A. Welby Pugin, the cartoons for which were drawn by his pupil and son-in-law, John Powell, while Messrs. Hardman carried out the work, and the two easternmost windows in the south aisle were made by Messrs. Clayton and Bell under the direction of Butterfield. (fn. †)

St. Mary Magdalene, Munster Square.
A photograph of its Pugin window can be found at:
http://www.saintsilas.org.uk/section/139

 "QUOTE: [The present Sacrament windows of Saint Peter's church are] "...illustrative of the Anglo-Catholic desire to place an incarnational faith that is universal in a precise and local context. The same message is communicated in the Seven Sacrament windows by MEA Rope.The Seven Sacrament windows were designed for the parish Church of S. Augustine Haggerston. Fr HA Wilson, the Vicar had previously installed a series of 'East End life' windows by Miss Rope, these are now scattered. The seven sacrament windows were in sequence in lancet windows in a side aisle. Their position at S. Peter's is less sympathetic to the detailed work of Miss Rope than was the original.
The windows are a simple teaching of the catholic theology of the saraments. They represent Anglo-Catholicism at its zenith in both confidence and popular appeal."
http://www.stpeterslondondocks.org.uk/section/12

details of the windows by Tor can be found at:
www.arthur.rope.clara.net/downloads/List.doc
and images of windows she designed are at:
http://www.arthur.rope.clara.net/torpix.htm

MUNSTER SQUARE:
Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments and predecessors: Associated Depar...Munster Square: proposed replanning; plans, elevations, sections, views . Munster Square: proposed replanning; plans, elevations, sections, views Cumberland Market Estate GREATER LONDON Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments and predecessors: Date: 1944.
Source: The Catalogue of The National Archives The Crown Estate Commissioners and predecessors: Registered Files on Estates Rem...Munster Square . Munster Square CENTRAL LONDON Regents Park The Crown Estate Commissioners and predecessors: Registered Files on Estates Remaining in Crown Possession after 1940 Date range: 1846 - 1851.
SOURCE:
National Archives
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
5 Saint Augustine  (1931) is the named saint for the commissioning church, Saint Augustine Church, York Street, Haggerston

6 Saint Anne. (1932) the Mother of the Virgin Mary
details, lower panel; kettle, boiling, teddy bear, cat curled in sleep.
[compare Saint Anne (1927), All Saints, Whitestable
with the Saint Anne (1932), S Augustine, Haggerston
(now at the Crypt, Munster Square)
and the Saint Anne (1933), All Saints, Hereford]

7 Saint Leonard, (1933)
UPPER PANEL: number 6 double decker bus passing Saint Leonard, Shoreditch High Street
LOWER PANEL:
detail of boy with another boy with cricket bat, dog, Suffolk Arms pub
on Boston Street (sign) beside lamp post. A church  is in background (Saint Augustine or Saint Bartholomew? The direction is wrong for Saint Augustine).
(The photographer 'Zorba the Greek' suggests the 'Leonard' reference may be to the cricketeer Sir Len Hutton, this seems unlikely as newspaper clippings and letter from Tor dated November 19th, 1933 - and Len Hutton made his first class debut in 1934, at the age of 17). Zorba the Greek also notes that the little dog also appears in the window for Saint Paul and in that window, he suggests the dog belongs to the parish priest.
Memorial Inscription:
OF YOUR CHARITY PRAY FOR THE SOUL OF FREDERICK
HENRY SNOW, WHO ENTERED INTO REST ON SEPT. 3rd,
1932. For SEVENTY YEARS CHORISTER, SERVER AND
SACRISTAN AT S.BARTHOLOMEW'S AND S.AUGUSTINE'S.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1155271 copyright Zorba the Greek
(copyright photograph by Arthur Rope)
http://www.arthur.rope.clara.net/torpix.htm


8  Saint Geoge (1934)
details include:
upper panel: Christ, crucified, standing on a green outline of England
middle panel: the virgin George resuces, and her parents on the other side
and a rather magnificent dragon, dead
lower panel, left hand side, signed with a tortoise.
(copyright photograph by Arthur Rope)
http://www.arthur.rope.clara.net/torpix.htm

9  Saint Joseph (?date)
charming details
middle panel: sheep herded into a wicker holding pen  by the good shepherd
lower panel: Joseph, Mary, Christchild and donkeys journey to escape Herod

¹⁰  Saint Michael (?1947 - approximate date by Arthur Rope)


¹¹  Saint Margaret (date unknown) Margaret Edith Rope's namesake.
(now at Saint Savior Priory, Queensbridge Road, Haggerston)

¹²  Saint Paul (date unknown)
(now at Saint Savior Priory, Queensbridge Road, Haggerston)
Clearly has the sign 'York Street' and what looks like the same little dog from the Saint Leonard panel (in front of two children, seen from the back, with a sign above the dog that says 'Nipper'). An advertising sign for 'Pears Soap' is on one of the buildings, and Saint Augustine  Church can be seen further up the road.


¹³ Saint Saviour Priory is still on Queensbridge Road, the back of the building faces York Street (now Yorkton Street).

¹⁴  Crowning of the Blessed Virgin Mary (date unknown)

¹⁵  Mary, Mother of Christ (date unknown)
unusual detail of dice, lance and sponge from crucifixon




Memorial Inscription:
HIS FRIENDS IN EAST LONDON GAVE THIS WINDOW
IN THANKFULNESS FOR EDWARD STAREY BURROWS
PRIEST, WHO SERVED GOD IN HAGGERSTON FOR 47YEARS
AND DIED IN EAST LONDON ON MARCH 12^th, 1933.
the photgrapher Zorba the Greek suggests the little dog 9which is also seen in the Saint Leonard window, belonged to the parish priest of the time (which would have been Father Herbert Arthur Wilson)
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1155294copyright: Zorba the Greek

16 THE CHURCH OF SAINT AUGUSTINE, HAGGERSTON: YORK (now Yorkton) STREET, HACKNEY
Booth's 1889 Map of Poverty (LSE)
bounded by York Street and Tuilerie Street, off the Hackney Road.

Note - The parish was united with St Stephen, Goldsmith's Now, Haggerston, Shoreditch in 1953. St Augustine's became the parish church of the united benefice.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=074-p91aug&cid=0#0
SURROUNDING AREA:
In the short thoroughfare connecting the London Fields with Goldsmiths' Row there is a shop which in bygone times was almost as much noted for its "Hackney Buns" as the well-known Bun-house at Chelsea was for that particular kind of pastry about which we have already spoken. (fn. 3)
Goldsmiths' Row extends from the canal bridge, near the south-west corner of London Fields, to the Hackney Road. The thoroughfare is very narrow, and in parts consists of very inferior shops and tenements. On the west side, about half way down, stand a row of almshouses belonging to the Goldsmiths' Company. They were founded in 1703, by a Mr. Morrell, for six poor almsmen belonging to the above-mentioned company, each of whom has a pension of £21 per annum. On the opposite side, near the corner of the Hackney Road, are some new buildings in connection with the North-Eastern Hospital for Sick Children, which was founded in 1867, in the Hackney Road. The new buildings were inaugurated a few years ago by the Princess Louise. The institution was established, as its name implies, for the purpose of affording medical relief to sick children; and about 10,000 patients are annually relieved here. Patients are admitted free, on the production of a subscriber's ticket; otherwise a small fee is paid by out-patients and in-patients.
From: 'The northern suburbs: Haggerston and Hackney', Old and New London: Volume 5 (1878), pp. 505-524. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45254&strquery=Yorkton

NOTE: The 'North-Eastern Hospital for Sick Children' is now the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children

St. Augustine, York  Street (nowYorkton Street)
Baptisms 1863-1970, Marriages 1867-1968 : LMA
http://www.eolfhs.org.uk/parish/shoreditch.htm

NATIONAL ARCHIVES:
SAINT AUGUSTINE, HAGGERSTON: YORKTON STREET, HACKNEY
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=074-p91aug&cid=30
Saint Augustine, Haggerston
COVERING DATES OF REGISTERS DEPOSITED
October 1863 - December 1970 Baptisms
July 1867 - June 1968 Marriages
Later registers, to date, are in the care of the incumbent of St. Mary with St. Chad, Haggerston.
OF INTEREST:
files include Parish Magazines
and obituary of Father Herbert Arthur Wilson.
Extent 115 files
P91/AUG  Covering dates 1864 - 1974
Held by London Metropolitan Archives
40 Northampton Road
London
EC1R 0HB
England
Contents:  Registers & other administrative records:
(http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma)

St Anne, Hoxton
D/E 212 ANN Parish magazines and details of induction service, 1982 1976; 1980-82
St Augustine's, Haggerston D/E 212 AUG D/E 212 MAR 3
Parish magazines 1887-1915, 1926-40, 1942-53 (gaps) and with St Stephen 1954,1956; photographs of premises, people and events 1870-1950
Parish magazines 1887-1915 (gaps); 1943-56 (gaps) D/E 212 MAR 1-2
http://www.hackney.gov.uk/c-archives-comprehensive-page8.htm


Outline Map of Parishes of Shoreditch, Middlesex in 1903
compiled by John Henley
(although Saint Augustine in 'York' Street is noted, no mention is made of the Saint Bartholomew in Boston street, M.E.A. Rope commemorates in her 'Saint Leonard' panel which includes the detail of Boston Street 9Suffolk Arms Pub, street sign, lampost).
http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/MDX/Shoreditch/outline.htm


Anglican ritualism in Victorian Britain, 1830-1910 By Nigel Yates

Saint Augustine,  Haggerston New Church (1863) Vestments, unspecified Gregorian chant Daily communion

P 6,700 A.Ttrustees I. R.C.Kirkpatrick 1870 (admitted to SSC 1869)

HACKNEY WALKS(website, no date,) 
St Augustine's Church.
QUOTE:"This ‘is the only London church by the quiet, modest and pious architect, Henry Woodyer who lived as a country gentleman in Surrey. St. Augustine’s was designed for advanced ritual’ writes Basil Clarke in his ‘Parish Churches of London’. The church built in 1867 became, in the 1960s, the ‘parish church’ of the Hell’s Angels bikers. I wonder if the modest Woodyer would have approved. It is now a restaurant and gallery called simply 291. "
http://hoop.ground-level.org/stories/storyReader$189

¹⁷The Children's newspaper March 28, 1942 page 3
The New Church Windows

Q N E of the most brutish things Hitler has done is to shatter the glass in hundreds of churches. . • • All of us long for the day when the war is over and the menace of bombing and the fear of invasion are forgotten; but when, that day comes what kind of new windows shall we see then, we wonder. A hint comes from East London, for St Augustine's church at Haggerston.now has a window with a portrait of an air raid warden. It is a notable piece of. pioneering. We see a little girl who has groped her way in the blackout to the vicar's door. She stands on tiptoe to ring the bell. Her gas-mask is slung over her

shoulder, and close by stands the warden whose torch helps the child to find the bell. The warden is shown wearing his helmet and gas-mask. To the right of the group is a wall of sandbags, a cat crouching in the shadows. This is a beginning. Our churches have long preserved windows showing the life and thought of men and women in past centuries; and it seems proper that whatever new glass finds its way into our churches now should in some measure poiv tray something,of the agony and splendour, the suffering and gallantry, of these momentous years. It should certainly have the saints of old, but should not omit the heroes

http://www.lookandlearn.com/childrens-newspaper/CN420328-003.pdf.

¹⁸ Death Over Haggerston: An Account of Adventures That Befall Some East Londoners Between the Summers of 1940 and 1941 by H. A. (Herbert Arthur) Wilson and Clare Dawson A. R. Mowbray, 1941 (Paperback - 1 Jan 1941)

Father Herbert Arthur Wilson of Saint Augustine's encouraged M.E.A. Rope to create the East End Life 'Haggerston; windows for his Church at Saint Augustine, Haggerston. He was also an author of religious books for children, including the Haggerston Catechism for children and he was also famous for the Night Litany for London. He also wrote an account of Londoners during the Blitz, published in 1941 with (or illustrated by)  Clare Dawson - presumably the Clare Dawson who became Tor's assistant after the War).

Haggerston Catechism , by H.A. Wilson, 1944

Haggerston Roundabout by H. A. Wilson
Publisher: London: A. R. Mowbray, 1948.
Pb,127pp. Charming book by Father Wilson of St Augustine's. One of series of religious and social observations from the parish.
Haggerston christian religion religious writing Christianity Father H A Wilson

A LIFE SIMPLY OFFERED
A Life of Fr. H.A. Wilson of Haggerston
by THE REVEREND TREVOR JONES. S.S.C
of St. Peter’s, London Docks
2nd edition revised by Michael Yelton
64 Pages with Black and White illustrations
QUOTE: "This is a very appealing biography of a noted Anglo-Catholic priest of the East End of London, Fr. H.A. Wilson of St. Augustine’s, Haggerston, who died in 1954. He was noted for his many publications, including the famous Haggerston Catechism and his descriptions of life in an East End parish. He was also earlier very instrumental in setting up the first Anglo-Catholic Congress of 1920 and the subsequent 1923 Congress when Bishop Frank Weston made his great appeal to the social conscience of Catholics. The description of his happy childhood and his up bringing at St. Michael’s, Croydon is a glowing evocation of what a truly dedicated Catholic Anglican household can be.
This is the second publication by the Anglo-Catholic History Society of which the author is a member."
http://www.churchtours.org.uk/section/12

BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY CLARE DAWSON 19


Donkey's Glory by Nan Goodall.  Clare Dawson (illustrator). (A.R. Mowbray 1944)
First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 96 pp.,b/w.illus., papered boards with donkeys on the cover, presentation plate attached to the fep.,dated 1944, pic.back ep., Weighs 180 gm.
Hard Pictorial card covers with red cloth spine. White back and border. Map inside back cover. A religious story for children about the birth of Jesus. The animals have Arabic names and a translation of these is given. B/w illustrations.

Cat's Company by Sir Compton MacKenzie, illustrations by Clare Dawson (London: Michael Joseph, 1946) 222 p.

Loving and Giving  by Clare Dawson
Hardcover
Publisher: National Society, /Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge .Westminster 1947
QUOTE:"Children's book that describes the basic beliefs of the Catholic Church. Black background hard boards with white illust of angels and children adorned with orange streamers - Dk orange/red cloth spine. 48pp with glossary to rear .colour illust throughout.  1947 Dust Jacket Book was printed in Holland. Cover beautifully illustrated with children, flowers and ribbons-red and white. Dust jacket is llustrated, portraying baby Jesus and Mother Mary, surrounded by children. "

The Childhood of Jesus (Medici books for children) illustrated and written by M. and C. Dawson (Muriel Dawson (1907-1974) and Clare Dawson )(Paperback - Medici Society, 1962)
ISBN: B0000CLKRS   Unpaginated soft cover. Stapled at hinge.

Tiggy, by Miss Read (Dora Saint), illustrated by Clare Dawson . Publisher Michael Joseph, 1971, 61p, ill, 23cm  B/w illustrations. SIGNED by "Miss Read" (Dora Saint) on white label.


(ADDENDUM, 2009)
 PROJECT 2010: Art for All
Artist Tatiana Schenk will be photographing our M.E.A. Rope windows and also photographing the Haggerston sites depicted in the window, to celebrate International Womens' Day 2011.
We hope to make the photographs and poems,available on our website.
Tatiana's first visit to The Crypt: May 6th 2009.

PURPLE POETS' COMMEMORATION
projected day: March 9th  2010
To celebrate International Womens' Day 2010 and the artist Margaret Edith Aldrich Rope (who died March 9th 1988) we would like to place a plaque at the former Boston Street site (now Hackney City Farm) celebrating her 'Saint Leonard' Haggerston stained glass window panel depicting BOSTON STREET and the SUFFOLK ARMS PUB.