1936 was not only the year Eden House at Spitalfields Market was - TopicsExpress



          

1936 was not only the year Eden House at Spitalfields Market was opened but when a British player last won Wimbledon. Now Andy Murray has won. Fred Perry was the son of a Stockport trade unionist and cotton factory worker and was never accepted by the All England Club. He went to the US, renounced his British citizenship and served in the US air force in WW2. Time to reflect on the changes - or not - in the last 77 years here in "old-school-tie country" as Perry called it. (Clive Bush of Exemplar Properties LLC went to Eton, as did Boris Johnson, David Cameron.....)
Posted on: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 16:52:52 +0000

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