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Making History
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Begins Tuesday 19 April 2005, 3.00-3.30 p.m |
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Sue Cook and the team answer listeners' historical queries and celebrate the way in which we all 'make' history. |
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Series 11 |
Programme 8
7 June 2005 |
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Hallsville
Ronald Boyd contacted Making History with a family story that might link him to the man who gave his name to an area of London's dockland in Canning Town. The place in question is Hallsville, which was developed in the second phase of dock development in the 1850s and which quickly became one of the worst slums in the area. Ronald Boyd wanted to confirm that Hallsville was indeed named after a Mr Hall and what this area of London was like.
"...we find men of every calling labouring at the docks. There are decayed and bankrupt master butchers, master bakers, publicans, grocers, old soldiers, Polish refugees, broken-down gentlemen, discharged lawyer's clerks, suspended government clerks, almsmen, pensioners, servants, thieves - indeed, everyone who wants a loaf and is prepared to work for it. The London dock is one of the few places in the metropolis where men can get employment without either character or recommendation."
Henry Mayhew
Making History consulted Alex West at the Museum of London, Tom Wareham at the Museum in Docklands and Jenni Munro Collins at the Newham Local Studies Library in Stratford.
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The early postal service
Juliet Humphrey contacted Making History to find out more about the British postal system before the penny post. Juliet has a bundles of letters from the mid to late 18th century, but although she understands their contents, she cannot make out how they travelled from A to B. Making History took her to meet the postal historian Peter Basterfield at the Bath Postal Museum.
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Local history hero
Jim Walker of the Queensferry History Group is a leading light in the campaign to erect a memorial to the men who died building the Forth Rail Bridge.
TheÌý website has more information about the plight of these men and Jim's campaign.
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Vanessa has presentedÌýscience and current affairs programmes for ±«Óãtv, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Discovery and has presented for ±«Óãtv Radio 4 & Five Live and a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday, Scotsman and Sunday Herald.Ìý