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.
As the dust clears
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Thursday 4 July was a historic moment for the UK, with the Labour Party
taking an unprecedented number of parliamentary seats, overturning fourteen
grim...
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