Who was George Gordon and what happened to his remains?

Who was George Gordon and what happened to his remains?

Letter from Brookwood Cemetery

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Steven Derby	6 April 2022 at 10:23
To: Menasche Scharf
Dear Menasche Thank you for sending the emails that I will read later today. Please see attached the letter I received from Maria Giordano, Senior Administrator at Brookwood Cemetery. It is not dated but I expect was in 2019. The Cemetery’s records are not as we might wish and what is related in the letter is based on research by John Clarke. You can read HS2 Reburials from Euston Station https://www.john-clarke.co.uk/hs2.html The interesting, but not enlightening, section from this article is below. It may help to contact John Clarke directly info@john-clarke.co.uk With best wishes, Steven Derby MSc., BSc., Dip. RS, MBPsS -------------------------------------------------- HS2 Reburials from Euston Station The next disturbance came, not in 1940 as explained above, but in the 1960s. At that time Euston was completely rebuilt under British Railways. This was part of a major rebuilding of the West Coast Main Line. The project included electrification and many other improvements to permit train speeds of 100mph and over. Similar to HS2, the preliminary work for this project involved further encroachments of the St James’ burial ground. This time the chapel, which served the surrounding burial ground, was demolished. The work took place during the summer of 1964. All the inscriptions on the tablets in the chapel were recorded. The tablets were then carefully packed in crates and deposited in the Diocesan store. [4]  The coffin plates were also recorded for the burials in the vaults beneath the chapel. 474 cases of human remains were then removed to Brookwood. However in addition, a further 428 identifiable human remains were reburied in private graves. The whole task cost nearly £19,500.  However it remains far from clear in what form these 428 individual reburials took place. It seems unlikely they were buried en masse since this would be at odds with the definition of a private grave. I have never located any of these graves - assuming they were marked (as private graves should be). Nor do the burial registers throw any light on these additional graves or where they might be located.

Kosher Food in London

Kosher Food in London

The West End

See the following sources of information, which should help your family with Kosher food over Shabbos:

All KLBD restaurants are Cholov Yisroel milk and meat is Glatt LBS. 

Local places to eat (COVID-19/20 permitting?): 

Please note: Due to COVID-19/20, some information below may be temporarily or permanently out of date – my sincerest apologies!

The meat at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, Bayswater is not Glatt Kosher.  Whatever your family decides to do, they need to pre-book Kosher meals before Shabbos.

OMI-Sushi-Menu-DS-A3-2.pdf on Finchley Road

Food - Delicatessen in Hampstead Heath

See also: Restaurants & Take Aways | Kosher London Beth Din - KLBD, where you will see which one is Milky, Meaty or Parev

www.adafina.co.uk sell fresh Kosher food.

http://filesource10.net/Adafina/SHABBAT-october-2013.pdf  

http://www.theus.org.uk/koshersearch

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app_klbd.layout

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/klbd-kosher-london/id547345094?mt=8

The Berkeley Hotel in Wilton Place London SW1X 7RL is nearer to Harrods, where you could buy packaged Kosher food (according to one Mashgiach).

Other than that there is the restaurant “Tisch” in Belsize Park (1 hour and fifteen minutes)

Then you have the local Chabad Shaliach, Rabbi Shneur on +447456286538 (you may tell him that Menasche from The Travelling Chassidim sent you the number).

Otherwise, try the office of the New West End synagogue at Email: nwes@newwestend.org.uk.

Option 1: Order from Hermolis, who have both KLBD and Kedassia Hechsherim: sales@hermolis.com

Option 2: Tony Page at the Island Grill (Meat) - KLBD

Royal Lancaster London Hotel

Lancaster Terrace

Lancaster Gate W2 2TY

Tel: 020 7139 8500

info@tonypagerestaurant.com

www.tonypagerestaurant.com 

Elegant and stylish restaurant serving a selection of our signature dishes. Relaxed, modern menu for lunch and dinner. Warm hospitality, attentive service and an exceptional experience. Also available: seating outside (not recomended).

Option 3: The restaurant "Reuben's" is at 79 Baker Street, Marylebone, LONDON, W1U 6RG, which is "KF" = Federation.  Eat everything except leafy vegetables and if you're very makpid on Yoshon, call the Federation of Synagogue's (=KF) Kashrus hotline on 00(1)4420 8203 0610.

Option 4: Try to make contact with local synagogues, where the Rabbi or other people will know what is available, which will help if they need a Shul or any other help.

Option 0: There is a bus number 139 that will take you from Regent Street to Golders Green Bus Station in 80 minutes (you'll have a view from the upper floor of the bus onto Regent's Park, Lord'sCricket Ground, Alexandra Road Park, West End Green Park & Fortune Green park).

Events that you could enjoy, over the Yontef of Succos:

Leytonstone: Sukkot - Leytonstone and Wanstead Synagogue

There are many more Succos-related events around town, which you could visit and leave a contribution for a hot hot dog or a cold cold cat . . .

If you need a driver to fetch them / take you to/from the airport - or anywhere in London for that matter - see this link:

https://trybetter.blogspot.com/2023/07/driver-gemach-list-of-drivers.html

The East End

There is a Sukkah in the Docklands area

There is no Sukkah in the London Bridge Area

The City

Visit Hatton Garden for more Jewish businesses and Kosher food

The West End

Hotels in North West London - a 80-minute bus ride from Regent Park Road:

CROFT COURT HOTEL - www.croftcourthotel.co.uk

The Pillar Hotel London - http://thepillarhotel.com/ under the supervision of the Federation.

Park Avenue Hotel - Phone: 020 8800 5960

Holiday Inn Express Hotel London - Golders Green (A406) (ihg.com)

Ask the KLBD (00442 0 8343 6255) to send you the UK Really Jewish Food Guide and/or the Nosh Guide (published annually), or check it out for yourself: http://www.theus.org.uk/koshersearch or www.isitkosher.uk.

Frozen Food Distributor: Freeze Rite Limited - office@freezerite.co.uk / 00442 0 8808 3999: 
Kosher Food Marketing: Sruli Spektor - srulispector@gmail.com / 00 44  776800 4444

Food Distributor: Mr Adam Bass, info@providence-deli.com / 07816 780 897 / www.providence-deli.com

Koshering Service

Rabbi Hilel Simon (hsimon@kosher.org.uk) of the KLBD offers a Kitchen Koshering service to commercial kitchens, like hotels, university campuses.

Driver Gemach

Dear Reader,

Gemach Galgalim was started with the hope that Heimishe people who are travelling and need to be transported by taxi, can now be matched with Heimishe drivers, to shuttle them from/to the airport/station.

גמ"ח גלגלים

יש לנו רשימה של נהגים בערי התפוצות אז אם אתם מחפשים מחוץ ללונדון תודיעו לי ואשלח לכם בחפץ לב עד כמה שידי מגעת
להלן רשימה של נהגים בלונדון
לטובת נשמתו של הבחור משה יודא ליב בן ר' אהרן (נפטר כ"א סיון ה'תשע"ג בבני ברק)
רשימת נהגים מאנ"ש שיכולים להיעזר אם מפרסמים את הפרטים שלהם לאלה הנוסעים על פסח
מרכב-אופן
נא לעדכן אותנו באימייל אם אתם נתקלים בבעיה כלשהי ונשתדל לעזור ככל האפשר

Wherever there is a sizeable Jewish community, you can now find a driver.  Our details are already listed in directories in the UK, Israel and the States. 

Read further for background details:

You may recall the tragedy that befell our family on כ"א סיון תשע"ג (30th May, 2013), when my nephew משה יהודא ליב ז"ל בן יבדל לחיים טובים וארוכים ר' אהרן ני"ו, didn't wake up on the morning of his brother's wedding (which was postponed, on the instructions of the late Rabbi Shmuel Wosner OB"M). We started this Gemach לעילוי נשמתו - to perpetuate the memory of this precious soul.

-#=÷+▪-▪-▪+÷=#=÷+▪--▪+÷=#=÷+▪--▪+÷=#

#       Driver Gemach.                              #

#       Need to be picked up from the        #

#       airport or train station?                 #

#       A Heimishe Yungerman will           #

#       serve all your travelling needs.      #

#       Call us:                                           #

#       Europe: +44 7974 160 252            #

#                       לעילוי נשמת                      #

#       הבחור משה יהודא ליב בן אהרן             #

-#=÷+▪--▪+÷=#=÷+▪--▪+÷=#=÷+▪--▪+÷=#

For list of drivers, see: Driver List

The idea behind this Gemach is as follows:
On the one hand there are many people travelling around the world on a daily basis and do not know about the availability of Heimishe drivers.
On the other hand there are many Heimishe Yungeleit who are struggling to put bread on their family table and try their hand at airport jobs - shuttling their friends and family whenever the occasion arises.
Alas, their close circle of business is too small of a pool to enable them to earn a respectable, liveable living...

By matching up travellers with drivers, we hope to allow the customers to support Heimishe Yungeleit, so the Yungeleit will be able to gain פרנסה and confidence - whilst their customers will have a chance to fulfil the מצוה of וחי אחיך עמך.

Whoever has heard the הספדים (=eulogies) on Moshe ז"ל will remember that this is exactly what he used to do during his short sojourn in this world, during his time in both his birthplace Antwerp and in Bene Beraq where he attended the Czernobyl Yeshiva.

By including the above text in your Gemach list, you are preparing the ground for so much חסד and פרנסה בכבוד that this will hopefully engender.

Thank you very much and tizku lemitzvos!

Wishing you good luck with this new endeavour, in the name of the Scharf (Beck) family.

First published on 01 July 2014, on Jewish P.O.S.T. - the Jewish Voice for the People Of South Tottenham (now defunct).

Here is another Gemach:

Gemach Available: Family World Clothing Gemach

We are open on Wednesday morning from 9.30am till 10.30am for drop-offs of ladies, gents and children's clothes in good condition (on hangers please) also linens and toys in good condition and unwanted gifts. 

We are at Garage 35 Danescroft Flats, Brent Street, Hendon London NW4.

For appointments please call:

Mrs C. Cohen on 020 8202 8321

Mrs M. Como on 07780 653 092

Mrs R. Ferster on 020 8458 9966

For enquiries please call Mrs M. Levene on 020 8202 0311

By: Corinne Cohen 06/February/2011 08:55 PM

Volunteer Available: For visiting patients at Royal Free Hospital.  

A group of ladies have kindly volunteered to visit lady patients at the Royal Free Hospital on Fridays, to wish them a good Shabbos and present them with a Shabbos package.