Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 101

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[newspaper cuttings referring to J.G. Ruddenklau and Mr Tribe, expanded by note]

J.G.R. was a hard working industrious little man, and he was about the only baker ever seen here who carried bread out in an old fashioned basket over the shoulder. He was a strong, stout broth of a man, about 5 feet 2 inches, and used to call himself an Englishman, having been for years sugar baking in Whitechapel, but after the War, when Germany was up, he went back to his allegiance. One evening at a concert in the “Music Hall”, J.G.R. headed a band of his countrymen, and sang the Waters of the Rhine. They did their best.

He was a Councillor, and also Mayor.

Old “Fifties” beer men