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=== JOYCE NEWMAN HOUSE LONDON SE1 4EX ===

The development in 2022 by the Leathermarket JMB CBS under Andy Bates as CEO was opened on 26th October 2022 named after long time resident of Lawson Estate at the behest of Debby Walsh (LETA Secretary)

Joyce Newman’s extended family have been residents in this area for over 200 years; William Jennings, her maternal great grandfather, was born in Southwark in 1816. The 1871 census shows her grandfather, again a William Jennings, as a scholar (school child) born and living in the St Saviours, Southwark area; there are still connections here in the area

She was born and lived in terraced housing on Great Dover St near the corner with what is now Spurgeon Street on 23rd May 1922, and there she remained with elder sister Vera and their Mum Liz Jennings and Dad Nav Richards through WWII and, though suffering some bomb damage, into the early 1950s She married Fred from Ralph Street, which is now beneath Dickens Field Park, Falmouth Road, just after the end of WWII in 1945 on 27th OCTOBER in the Crypt of The Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Church Square SE1. The last wedding to ever by conducted in the Crypt. When that housing was demolished and redeveloped as Lawson Estate, in 1956, Joyce and Fred were amongst the first tenants to move back to the new estate and never moved away.

She had numerous jobs; a clippie [bus conductor], munitions worker in Woolwich and Tottenham, early morning cleaner, card sewing (which doesn’t exist today), office tea lady, admin at World Stores/Keymarkets and United Friendly Insurance based in Southwark Bridge Road but always had the Community and spirit of Lawson Estate Tenants at her heart. She volunteered and served the Lawson Estate Tenants Association in many and various capacities for over 50 years. She supported both Pilgrim Church and St Matthews Church before they too made way for redevelopment and loved the local area of Southwark and the Cathedral where both Joyce and Fred have their ashes scattered and remembrance stones engraved in the grounds