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The following probably refers to Bermondsey life 1920-1939. " Each summer Bermondsey held a Catholic procession, attended by the local children who attended the Catholic schools at Dockhead, Melior Street & All Saints in Tooley St.[this built later?]. the whole event was a wonderful spectacle consisting of the various guilds, bands & tableaux on carts.Hymns were sung as the bands played the procession through the streets on a Sunday afternoon. In the evening children would follow the priest who blessed homes which had been put altars outside, attesting to their faith" [Bermondsey & Rotherhithe remembered]
Holy Trinity Dockhead
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Built in 1851.A V2 landed in parkers Row in the evening of 3/3/1945 opposite the RC church. Buildings near the explosion were demolished and there was severe blast damage for 500 yds around. The church & the priests' house adjoining were very close to the blast. 3 priests were killed and a fourth recued with difficulty, his rescuer receiving the George Cross.
Our Lady of Salette and St Joseph. Melior Street
Originated from St.George's .In 1847,a father Robert Hodgson hired an old coach house in this area for mass. Such crowds came on Sundays that he next rented from Guy's Hospital an old dissecting room in Webb Streeet,after clearing away "nearly two cartloads of human bones" and also rats. This building had a chapel ,dedicated to Our Lady and Saint Patrick, upstairs and a school downstairs and was solemnly opened by Bishop Nicholas Wiseman on 20/3/1848. The chapel proving inadequate to accommodate more than a fifth of the congregation, it was replaced by the present church,opened on 2nd May 1861.
The first Catholic Mission at London Bridge - A new site for a church had to be found before Webb Street and its chapel were overtaken by the enlargement of the railway station. The church in Melior Street, a few yards away, was opened on the second of May 1861, and dedicated to Our Lady of La Salette and Saint Joseph.
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Position of Melior Street shown on left of map. at same level as the St.Olave Union infirmary. Dockhead is off to the east and St. Georges down to the south.
St.Georges Roman Catholic Cathedral , Lambeth Road, Southwark, London SE1.
Mass was said in Southwark from at least 1767. Chapel opened 1793 in London Road. Cathedral opened 1848. It was designed by Pugin and he was the first person to be married in the cathedral on 10 August 1848 to his third wife Jane.
This is where David Tobin married Margaret Buckley, 4/10/1852.
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Photos taken 2008.
Sacred Heart , Knatchbull road, Lambeth
Timothy Lyons and Elizabeth Tobin married here in 1876.
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The original church , with the address of Camberwell New Road?, was destroyed in WW2 and a new one erected.
JL and I visited the church, meeting secretary Clara, in 2008 and found the 1876 marriage entry, but no baptisms for their children 1878,1880, 1882, 1885, 1888 & 1891.
JL received a letter from Fr David Gibbons in 2008 confirming that the previous church was indeed destroyed during WW2 and that they have no records - photographs, drawings, etc. of it.
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The Church of the English Martyrs , Rodney Road, Walworth.
School chapel opened in Northampton Place 1890. Present church opened 1904?. The blessing of the new Church bells in 1903 was reported on a New Zealand newspaper!!- see article below.
This is where William Lyons worshipped with his 7 children and where they were all baptised 1910-1925. Also his parents, Timothy & Elizabeth Lyons, had their funeral services here in 1923 & 1924. The children remembered praying for the souls of Timothy & Elizabeth. JL and I visited it in 2008 and got copies of the baptisms of all 7 children of William John and Jessie Lyons, 1910-1925, and of the burials of Timothy 1923 & Elizabeth 1924.: these images all on relevant pages.
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2008 photos of the Church of the English Martyrs ,Walworth
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An interesting Google find , dating from 1903, reported in NZ!
Our Lady of Sorrows, Peckham
Near Pepler Road where Timothy Lyons ,Elizabeth & family were living in 1882 and 1883. Was Lilian Margaret Lyons baptised here in 1882 and were Stephen Lyons 5 and Margaret Lyons 1 buried from here in October 1883, having died on concecutive days of scarlet fever. Sent email Dec 2009 and another April 2010 asking if they were - the answer, from Anthony Plummer, was that there was no mention of them.
Most Precious Blood R C Church - other side of Guy's to Our Lady.
| Most Precious Blood R.C. Church 22 Redcross Way, Borough, London SE1 1TA - England, UK
Phone: +44 (0)20 7407 3951 - Fax: +44 (0)20 7407 0201
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| Bishop Butt founded The Parish of the Most Precious Blood in Borough in 1891, thanks to a £10,000 donation from one of his late friends. The church’s exterior was recently renovated, and the interior is noted for its impressive baldacchino. The interior is also noteworthy for the Station of the Cross; which were made in Belgium and were carried from the docks by the parishioners. The church also contains a small library of religious books. |
Leytonstone Catholic Cemetery. mailto:stpatricks@Yahoo.co.uk
Opened 11/5/1861. First Lyons burials we have found there are Dec 1874. Resting place for John[spina bifida- son of Timothy & Catherine] 1862- Dec 1874, Timothy 1834-11/3/1878, Stephen & Margaret, children of Timothy 1852, in 1883, Stephen 1827- Feb1890 , John blind 1833-1894, Timothy 1852- Dec1923, Elizabeth nee Tobin 1854 -Mar1924, Stephen, son of Stephen, 1859-1917.
Also for David Tobin 1831-1880 and his wife Margaret Tobin 1831-1877 . And for Elizabeth Amos nee Lyons 1864-1940.
Burials not found for Honorah 25/6/1870 & Mary Ann 1855-21/9/1874 & Timothy's daughter Anne 1877-Mar 1878. Were these in Dockhead?? Most records destroyed in WW2 - have asked for Honorah and no record.
View of modern cemetery 2010
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Photos taken ~1980.
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Photos taken 2010 of the cemetery and its chapel
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery. Resting place for Catherine Lyons/Buckley 1827 - 1902. It is located at Kensal Green in London. Established in 1858, the 29 acre (120,000 m²) site was built just up the hill from the much larger Kensal Green Cemetery. It is the final resting place for more than 165,000 individuals of the Roman Catholic faith and features a memorial to Belgian soldiers of the First World War who were wounded in combat and evacuated to England but died there in hospital.
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Photos taken 2010 of St. Mary's RC Cemetery and its chapel.
JL visited St. Mary's in 2011 and found the following: