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Pigden returned to the Civil Service, where his work included processing applications for teacher training. Without telling anyone, he slipped in his own and was accepted by Wandsworth Teacher Training College, graduating in 1949. He taught at a school in Catford for a year before moving to Turnham. Lorraine Kelly shares her devastation as young ITV team member battles terminal cancer two months after welcoming a baby boy: 'We are all deeply saddened' Ariana Grande and Elizabeth Gillies dress as Nomi Malone and Cristal Conners from Showgirls... 10 years after starring on Victorious Kelsea Ballerini shares racy photos in a cowgirl hat and pink bikini bottoms for Nylon's It Girl issue cover... as her beau Chase Stokes' ex Madelyn Cline comments on the outfitStrictly's Bobby Brazier and Dianne Buswell still appear in top spirits as they arrive for another exhausting nine-hour rehearsal ahead of week six Matthew Perry is seen dining out with a female friend at the Hotel Bel-Air the day BEFORE he was found dead in his hot tub at home A third penned: 'Brings a tear to the eye,' while a fourth admitted: 'Brilliant footballer and top man. He cried, I cried, we all cried.'

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The monument, designed by a local sculptor, includes a plaque listing the dead: Sidney Wright, the 21-year-old groom; his new wife Patricia, the same age; Sidney's parents, Sidney and Elizabeth; their five daughters, Dorothy, 19, Mary, 18, Elsie, 13, Joyce, 10, and eight-year-old June; and four unrelated people believed to have been family friends. Elmer Davis, "She Knew What She Wanted" (Review of Elfwin by S. Fowler Wright), The Saturday Review, September 13, 1930, (p. 123). Mrs Seton's elder brother, William Watson, who now lives in Swanley, Kent, was 11 at the time and remembers the events vividly. "We were all meant to be at the wedding as well, but Barbara was ill so my mother said at the last minute she wouldn't go. My dad just said: 'Oh well, we'll see them all tomorrow.' Sidney Wright was born in Leytonstone, Essex, the son of Alfred Wright, a business man, and his wife Miriam née Feather, daughter of a hotelier. He was educated at Marylebone Grammar School and the University of London, where he studied medicine, undertaking his clinicals at University College Hospital. After junior appointments at University College Hospital, Royal Sussex County Hospital and Plaistow Fever Hospital, he was appointed assistant medical officer of health to the boroughs of Hendon and Wembley, 1937-41, then tuberculosis officer and deputy medical officer of health in Reading. He subsequently became medical officer of health and principal school medical officer. In 1948 he was appointed MOH to the County Borough of Croydon, where he remained until his retirement.

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