Genealogy Chat

Thanks everyone, I've sent the information back to my aunt in NZ to see if it jogs her memory. I still haven't established that they had anything to do with maufacturing spitfire canopy covers

hi jeanette
Boake Roberts was in Carpenters road ,Stratford,for sure ,as my aunt was the cashier in their canteen,iwaited for her to finish work when iwas a kid over 60 years ago.

Good one, Kath!

Have a look here (it tells you about the company):-

http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/A._Boake,_Roberts_and_Co

Kath. x

If you google perspex spitfire cockpits there are loads of sites about restorations, museums, etc - try contacting them.

This is one "reference" I found to it???? It is mentioned briefly??

Winifred Adair-Roberts (fl.1910-1974) was brought up in Hampstead, the seventh child of a family of nine; all girls bar one. Her parents were Irish and her father co-owned a chemical works (Boke, Roberts) in Stratford. It moved to Walthamstow in 1974. Winifred was educated at private schools including, briefly, St. Felix, South Wold and Polam Hall (Durham). Winifred also attended a short course at the Gloucester Domestic Science College. She did voluntary work with the ‘Women’s Voluntary Reserve’ in the First World War but did no paid work as she seems to have suffered lifelong poor health. In an interview conducted by Professor Brian Harrison, c.1974, Winifred was thought to be well into her eighties. In the interview she described her family background. All seven sisters went to school (several boarding schools are specified) and to college. She also recalled selling Votes for Women standing in the gutter on Finchley Road, near John Barnes store and stewarding at large Women's Social & Political Union (WSPU) meetings. She claimed to have brought hot dinners (cooked at home in Hampstead) to Mrs Pankhurst, hiding out in the WSPU office at Lincolns Inn. They were smuggled in under the noses of the police. Her eldest sister, Muriel, a doctor, was imprisoned as part of the suffrage protests. Ethel, a PE specialist, was apparently good at helping to hide Mrs Pankhurst, who apparently looked like ‘Dresden China’.

I wonder if that is it?????

My aunt thinks this is the name of the London.factory where my uncle and grandfather worked (WWII) It is supposed to have made the perspex covers for spitfire cockpits. Thus far I have had no luck in finding out if it even existed under this name. Does it ring any bells with anyone out there :-S