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The Old Red Lion Theatre

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London University St George's Campus

Dame Alice Owen was born in 1547 to an Islington landowner Thomas Wilkes and his wife.^[1] She had a sister Mary whose daughter, Anne Bedingfeild, was also a benefactor.^[2]

In her childhood, when in the fields at Islington, 'sporting with other children', she had a narrow escape of being killed by an arrow, shot by some unlucky archer, which 'pierced quite thorough the hat on her head'. For this providential escape, she recorded her gratitude in later life by the erection of a school and almshouses on the spot.^[1] The story appeared in this form within five years of her death, in the second edition of John Stow's 'Surray', published in 1618. Later on it received many embellishments.^[3]

Alice Wilkes was three times married: firstly to Henry Robinson, a member of the Brewers' Company, by whom she had six sons and five daughters; secondly to William Elkin, an alderman of London, by whom she had one daughter, Ursula, married to Sir Roger Owen (son of Thomas, and her stepson) of Condover, Shropshire ; and thirdly to the judge Thomas Owen. It is as the widow of Mr. Justice Owen that she is often styled Dame Alice Owen, or even Lady Owen; but Owen was never knighted.^[3]

Alice Owen died 26 October 1613, and was buried in the parish church of St Mary's Church, Islington, where a monument preserved her effigy and those of her children till 1751, when, on the pulling down of the old fabric, part of the monument was removed to the school, and a fresh one erected to her memory in the new church.^[3]

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The Islington Museum

A Sweetie

Out for a walk

We stopped for a coffee and were entertained by these small dogs who popping out of sight then returning some moments later.

Birches

Mount Etna Broom

Cream rowan berries

The London Archives

Bomb damage seen from a window of Midland Bank by Richard Mathews 1941

Wild flowers among the ruins surrounding St Paul's Cathedral by Esther Borough Johnson 1945

Shakespeare

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The Exmouth Arms where we had lunch

The Marion Anderson

Marion Anderson

A legendary African-American interpreter of operatic and concert repertoire, contralto Anderson opened doors for subsequent generations of Black American singers.