Up In Front of the Local Constabulary!


I’ve met a few Coppers in the course of my own life, especially in my younger years coming from a working class home in Peckham South London from a family … Continue reading Up In Front of the Local Constabulary!

The Redknapp Family History Part 3: The Dockers’ Tribe of London


The White Death, and the beginning of the end of the Watermen and Lightermen’s Tribe. Joseph Reuben was the couple’s only son to survive into adulthood.  With his Father gone, … Continue reading The Redknapp Family History Part 3: The Dockers’ Tribe of London

The Redknapp Family History Part 2; Blackwall Taverns, Smugglers, and Jewish Ancestry?


Joseph Edward Redknap  1816 – 1850? –  Sarah Pressman 1813 to 1882 Given That Harry Redknapp has been a very popular Manager of London football team Tottenham Hotspur, who have a … Continue reading The Redknapp Family History Part 2; Blackwall Taverns, Smugglers, and Jewish Ancestry?