Comments on: The Return of Parmiter’s School https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/29/the-return-of-parmiters-school/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:07:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Alfred Rayner https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/29/the-return-of-parmiters-school/#comment-1775463 Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:07:29 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=92545#comment-1775463 Was a pupil from around 1950. Left in 4th form and went to work in a bank!
had two cousins who were 1 and 2 forms above
me.
Parmiters then was a Grammar school.

Wonderful memories Sports Ground was near Chingford which meant an afternoon off at Field ad we called it. Great days

]]> By: steve harris https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/29/the-return-of-parmiters-school/#comment-1103209 Mon, 22 Aug 2016 11:50:15 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=92545#comment-1103209 @David Lewis: I worked in the grocery shop your father had in Hackney Road for about 6 months – Lewis milk supply. That was around 1974. I think your mother was called Iris? I got paid 75p an hour – which wasn’t bad in those days. I think I remember you as a very small boy – you would have been about 6 years old at that time?

]]> By: David Lewis of Daniel Lewis & Son Limited / W. H Clark (London) Ltd - Est. 1797 of 493 - 495 Hackney Road E2 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/29/the-return-of-parmiters-school/#comment-123266 Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:24:05 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=92545#comment-123266 30 years ago was when my Grandfather Lewis Lewis (Lewis’s Milk Supplies being his business) & my Father Lewis John Daniel Lewis (with his business W.H. Clark (London) Limited – now renamed Daniel Lewis & Son) bought all of the derelict Hackney Road & Cambridge Heath Road properties/shops and flats from Parmiter’s School Trust and they used the money to build a new annex on the school (since recently demolished and replaced & move to Watford, that would of been back in the 1980’s and now we are moving to pastures new ourselves, after having spent 216 years in Hackney Road.

]]> By: Peter Holford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/29/the-return-of-parmiters-school/#comment-123248 Sat, 29 Jun 2013 09:49:15 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=92545#comment-123248 Is this why my family’s not rich? They were amongst the poor of this parish at that time!

]]> By: Christine Swan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/29/the-return-of-parmiters-school/#comment-123247 Sat, 29 Jun 2013 09:46:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=92545#comment-123247 I find this blog and endless source of fascination that, quite honestly, creates little highlights of interest with every email link I receive. I’m “signed up”to many sites(most are advertising) but this one is different. I read and savour each page avidly like a bestseller. I’m so proud to be an Eastender and love visiting the historic sights. We used to live in the Peabody Buildings off Whitecross St band the whole of my family were from the locality.I’m a descendant of the Crudgingtons , a notorious19th century criminal family. Difficult to work out how I’m related as there was bigamy and illegitimacy in my line but one Daniel Crudgington (born 1815 Spitalfields), opened our family grave.
Thank you so much for making my knowledge and connection with the area the richer.
Chris Swan

]]> By: Julian Woodford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/29/the-return-of-parmiters-school/#comment-123219 Sat, 29 Jun 2013 08:01:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=92545#comment-123219 Yet another great article! I wish I had known about this event! The full story of Joseph Merceron and his sidekick Peter Renvoize is set out in my forthcoming book ‘The Boss of Bethnal Green: Joseph Merceron, the Godfather of Regency London”. Further details will be posted at http://historylondon.wordpress.com.

]]> By: Jasmin Leuthold https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/29/the-return-of-parmiters-school/#comment-123211 Sat, 29 Jun 2013 07:23:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=92545#comment-123211 Normally I am all for spending money on revitalizing church yards and in particular tombstones and grave markers (they can tell many an interesting story…) but I don’t know in this case whether this was a good signal to send to the school children surrounding the newly restored grave of Renvoize, that those who steal will be forever looked after, even in death !

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