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"After lengthy negotiations between Mr Wagg, the Urban District Council and the Ministry of Health, the [East Court] estate was purchased for £17,000 by the Manor Charitable Trust (founded by him and four others in 1929)"
Merchant banker Alfred Wagg was a co-founder of the Eton Manor Boys' Club
"Arthur Villiers, often cited as having
the most enduring commitment to the
Club, arrived in Hackney Wick when
he was 24. He never left. .. made his money
as an investment banker - as director of
Barings bank."
Alfred Wagg's father , John Wagg (1793–1878), was a German Jewish immigrant who began the family City of London stockbroking firm of Helbert, Wagg & Co. in 1823. Wagg was a relative of the Rothschilds and acted as their stockbrokers. encyclopedia.com/religion/encyc…
"In 1962 Helbert, Wagg merged with the famous non-Jewish City merchant bank J. Henry Schroder & Co. to form J. Henry Schroder, Wagg & Co. In 2000 Citigroup, the American bank, acquired the firm, renaming it Citigroup Global Market Ltd."
"It must have been an extraordinary
sight. Eton College Boys, members of
the most privileged families in Britain,
were living amongst the poorest East
Enders. These Eton Boys came to
Hackney Wick to teach the local
boys values .."
Uh huh, we'll get back to that in a bit
" Schroders bears the name of the Schröder family, a prominent Hanseatic family of Hamburg with branches in other countries." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schroders
The site of the original 34,000 square foot building, located twenty-five miles south of London, was selected in 1952 by David O. McKay and Stayner Richards
It was the first LDS temple to be built in the United Kingdom
A second temple was completed in 1998 in Chorley, near Preston and is known as the Preston England Temple. It serves northern England, north Wales, all of Ireland and Scotland. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Churc…
Bennetts Coaches make trips to the LDS temple in Newchapel
For some years they used the Pegasus emblem. This was the military badge of the Parachute Regiment
Their founder Arthur Ernest Bennett served in WW2 firstly as a member of the Gloucestershire Regiment and later in the 1st Air Landing Light Regiment which was raised in 1943 as an airborne forces unit of the British Army‘s Royal Artillery ..
"Arthur served in Operation Slapstick which was part of an amphibious landing in Italy, returning to England in September 1944."
"During Operation Market Garden, an airborne assault in the Netherlands, they landed 60 miles behind German lines to capture a bridge crossing on the River Rhine."
"During the battle of Arnhem, the regiment was one of the divisional units that formed a defensive ring around Oosterbeek. Arthur also took part in Operation Doomsday in Norway in May 1945. After this, the regiment returned to England and was disbanded in December 1945."
"Upon his return from WWII, Arthur joined the family coal business ‘E M Bennett’ where he continued to work until his father, Ernest Melville Bennett, died in 1956."
"After Arthur’s father had died, Arthur secured employment as a coach-builder at the Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Works. The Wagon Works (as it was locally known) had an enviable reputation around the world.."..
"1976 and 1977 were significant years for Bennetts Coaches.. Gloucestershire County Council ..set up a joint operation with 3 coach operators to provide services over this route. Thus on 23 August 1976, Bennetts Coaches took on its first public bus service."..
"Bennetts are proud to have been asked to undertake regular prestigious work for NATO 👀 , often involving flights to or from RAF St Mawgan in Cornwall ."👀
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History : The company was originally British Airways Helicopters until its privatisation in September 1986, when it was sold to publisher Robert Maxwell and subsequently renamed British International Helicopters
"A complicated character, David Icke was born in Leicester and worked for the Leicester Mercury and BBC Radio Leicester before going on to be the sports presenter on Newsnight and a Breakfast Time presenter."..
"In 1991, he went on Wogan (the Graham Norton Show of its time) warning the world was about to end, prompting a lot of laughter from the studio audience and some criticism of the BBC for letting the show be broadcast."
"It was a mild, windless night, sometime before dawn on 1 September 2022, when a large grey wolf trotted out of the woods beside Beinhorn, a hamlet of old barns and graceful wooden houses in the German state of Lower Saxony."..
"The keen nose of the male wolf almost certainly scented that Dolly, a pretty chestnut pony .. was vulnerable. The 30-year-old pony, kept in a paddock close to stables and a farmhouse.. It was an easy kill." theguardian.com/environment/20…
"Unluckily for the wolf, and perhaps for the entire wolf population of western Europe, Dolly was a cherished family pet belonging to the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.."
Les Weinstein serves as a mediator and arbitrator, with a focus on technology, internet, competition law and intellectual property disputes. advantageadr.com/judgeresumespa…
"Les Weinstein is also a panel member of the following ADR sponsoring organizations: AAA/ICDR, CPR, CIAdr, WIPO and IAA." 🤔