Looking for the pole!

[HelenaWojtczak]

Hi Helena

Do you have any sense that Klosowski might have descendents? What happened to Willie, do you know?

All the best

Chris

Klosowski and Lucy had a daughter Cecilia, who married and produced offspring.

Wille went to an orphanage and died in WW1.

It will all be in my book.

Helena

[Ben]

THE CURRENT OWNER, MR GEORGE, LOOKING FOR THE POLE!

More specifically, he's looking for the Pole's pole.

[ChrisGeorge]

Hi Helena

Do you have any sense that Klosowski might have descendents? What happened to Willie, do you know?

All the best

Chris

[HelenaWojtczak]

He was v nice to me, lifted the big wooden hatch and let me peer into his cellar!

"The couple still had with them the little boy, Willie, who sometimes slept in the shop and quite frequently in a foul cellar below the premises….it seems that the boy led a most unhappy and neglected life."

(Hargrave Adam)

... embellished by R. Michael Gordon, who added compulsion, rodents and maternal shortcomings to give the story melodrama: "Chapman showed his contempt for her son by having him sleep in a cellar below his barbershop, in the company of rats and filth".

[ChrisGeorge]

Yes I thought he looked like my long lost cousin.

[HelenaWojtczak]

Aha! Yes another Mr George!

[ChrisGeorge]

Very interesting, Helena. Excellent work.

Chris

[HelenaWojtczak]

CHAPMAN'S SHOP IN HASTINGS, SKETCHED 1903




THE CURRENT OWNER, MR GEORGE, LOOKING FOR THE POLE!