Leicester Mercury from Leicester, Leicestershire, England • 10

PM 10 LEICESTER MERCURY MONDAY DECEMBER 19 1994 Leicester Mercury St George Street Leicester LEI 9FQ FAX: 0533 530645 Mr Diary Mastery of old family snapshots 25 years ago A huge interchange car park for 3500 vehicles is an integral feature of the new St Estate in Leicester which will be intersected by the Inner Motorway connecting London Road with the city boundary at Melton Road Seven lifts will be positioned at strategic points throughout the three storey estate and the blocks of one two and three bedroom dwellings will be connected by centrally heated elevated corridors Councillor William Sor-combe's 10 year campaign bore fruit when a £12000 branch library was opened on The Common Evinfj-ton The ceremony was performed by the Lord Mayor of Leicester Aider-man Edward Marston who said that today more pad-pie read library books than ever before 50 years ago Mr Edward George Brown Beau Brummel for a matter of 50 years has died So passed a personality of the city who was known to almost everybody noted for his dapper and cheerful ways and a standard of sartorial elegance which conveyed a reproach as well as an example to the vast majority of his fellow citizens He was a life of Leicester Royal INTRIGUING when old family photographs come into our possession making us curious to know who are the people on them This was the case when Davkl Allcoat of Rotherham inherited some portraits of distant relatives taken at studios in Leicester around the him of the century- One shows a woman wearing a pearl necklace on a photograph taken at Frank studio on Hinckley Road A message written on the back of die picture reads: Christmas Greetings 1924 With Love From Iris Another photograph of a young man dates from the late Victorian period It was taken by John Burton and Sons of The Haymarket Leicester Messrs Burton made the claim of having been patronised by Queen Victoria and the Prince and Princess of Wales lT only information I have about the Leicestershire branch of my family is of great-great-grandfather Allcoat who married a Nichols in 1890 and was a grocer and a member of the Relief says Mr Allcoat It may be great-great-grandfather Allceat as a young man who appears on another photograph-taken at Studio at 43 Granby Street Leicester Anyone who can help David Allcoat identify his Leicestershire forbears is asked to contact him at 18 Barnsley Road Thorpe Hesley Rotherham S61 2RR Telephone 0742 463817 THE picture below could be of great-great grandfather Allcoat but who is the man pictured above? MYSTERY LADY known only as Iris Wartime heroism recalled AFTER reading in a national paper recently an obituary to Jack Easton (88) who was awarded the George Cross for mine disposal work during the London Blitz in 1940 a reader contacted me ap some details of biter est He explained that in the incident involving a Shoreditch mine for which Mr Easton received his award his aaSbtcnt was Ordinary Seaman Bennett Southwell from The mine fuse had been dam-and the men could net remove it Then the mine slipped and the whirring of its mechanism meant it would explode in 12 second When It want off it demolished 12 streets but miraculously Jack Easton was dug out of the rubble alive although with a fractured skull and pelvis and two broken legs Bennett Southwell died in the Mast and his body found six weeks later who wee awarded the George Cross posthumously It was on October 7 1940 that the two men members of the Land Mine Disposal Section were called to deal with an unexplodadjB chute mine which had MHl through the roof of a house The mine containing 15001b of explosive was dangling by its 'chute lines with the canopy partly round a chimney pot I partly caught on an iron bedstead In a planned rural England we should maintain and not preserve said Mr Hudson Minister of Agriculture in London today Preservation savoured too much of a tryside preserved as a museum pieeti WIN ONE OF TWO ACORN COMPUTERS WITH SOFTWARE! ir A learning cum Honosr hr city doctor Acorn Dealers in OW you can with your education by playing Dial-A-Prize this week Your route to compute with the Leicester Mercury begins here with a chance to win one of two amazing Acorn keyboard computers A DOCTOR who helped to make Leicester's kidney unit into the biggest in Britain has been honoured by the medical profession Professor John Walls clinical director of the Department of Nephrology at Leicester General Hospital has been elected president of the UK Renal Association When he takes up his new post next April Professor Walls will have the ear of the Government on policy matters regarding care for kidney patients Acclaim Prof Walls said: am clearly delighted at being elected president of the Renal Association reflects the tremendous work carried out by all the staff in the department over the past 20 years which has resulted in the unit obtaining such a high national and international jlfrof Walls was appointed as consultant nephrologist at Leicester General 20 years ago after training by Barry Nelson Health Correspondent in Leeds Newcastle and the United States His ambitious plans for the unit have transformed it into the largest clinical centre of its kind in the country Its scientific programme has attracted acclaim within the UK as well as a steady stream of major research grants from bodies such as the Medical Research Council Wellcome Foundation and the National Kidney Research Fund Nine separate research papers from staff based at the Leicester unit were presented at a recent international conference in the United States Leicester kidney unit supports a population of nearly two million people from Leicestershire and surrounding counties The unit also runs the second largest Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) programme in the world Prof Walls will remain president of the Renal Association for three years complete software worth almost £400 each! 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