Ruth Mitchell-Pitts
In memory of our sister......
and wife of Mr. Brent Pitts.
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Ruth Elizabeth Mitchell-Pitts
19 June 1951 – 1 February 2009
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Ian W Mitchell
January 2011
When London was a village (2)
One of London's 'Commons' Carrying on with my little series about London, a City but also very much a collection of villages which I enjoyed living in, working in, getting married in, and finally "'leavin'", I just wanted to touch on those places which London has so many of......'The Commons' - rather akin to Public Parks, but immense in size and in every 'village'.... A bit of their history is here: http://www.graftingardeners.co.uk/history-londons-commons/ and some are used by the well known London Buses. Some are criss-crossed by main roads, some have public golf courses, some have tennis courts, both in concrete and in grass.... The special thing about these 'Commons' is their size....They are immense. In pure ground value they must be worth billions of billions of pounds sterling, and yet there is rarely any attack made on their status. It is rather astounding! Just for the record, there is another, ...
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"James" refers to a LINK being broken, I am unable to find any link at all in the article, apart from the links to the "original post" which, of course will only take you back to the same page.
If "James" would like to address me a mail at iwmpop@gmail.com explaining what he requires, I will do my best to accomodate him...