Leaving aside the dubious framing of this story ('workaday beauties' ffs), some nice local detail of a young Irish women's life in Lewisham 1959 - Mary O'Donoghue from Cork working in the Robertson Jam Factory in Catford, living in Davenport Road with her sister (a nurse at Hither Green Hospital) and socialising at the Harp Club in New Cross.
Help for Andy: Trying to find the location and information of the Three
Mariners in Lower Deptford
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Three Mariners is an old sign, of which there are examples among the trades
tokens, and which is still to be seen on two or three public-houses in
Lon...
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