MATHIAS, BROS

MAHOGANY & TIMBER IMPORTERS Photo of the family timber merchants, Mathias & Sons, at 100a Brick Lane. The older man is Jacob Mathias the grandfather of Norman Mathias. Norman married Rosa Steinberg in 1936 (click here). Circa: early 1920s

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ART DECO

Presented by Mrs Ruth Cohen, this beautifully printed album cover is a great example of how the Boris studio followed and embodied all the current style and fashion trends.

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SIDNEY LONG

Boris’s photo of Sidney Long who was employed as a commissionaire. He not only kept the crowds back on busy days but was there to ensure that the right car with the bride and her entourage arrived and departed at the right time to and from the studio. He wore a wine-coloured uniform resplendent with gold […]

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BEATRICE ‘BETTY’ EVANSKY and SOLOMAN ‘SIDNEY’ SYMONS

were married on 26 February 1939 at the Great Synagogue, Bethnal Green Rd with the reception at the Princes Galleries in Piccadilly. It was catered by M.Stern & Sons of Dalston with dancing to the Embassy Band. Sidney was a ‘poultry dealer’ & unusually for those days owned a car. Betty’s father, Symon, was a […]

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MIRIAM ZACK and LOUIS ROSENBLATT

were married on 18 September 1938 at the East London Synagogue, Rectory Square in Stepney Green with the reception at Westminster Palace Rooms, Victoria St, SW1. Miriam’s family lived & ran their business, Zack shoe shop, in Ilford. Louis joined his three brothers (click here & here) in running the family shoe manufacturing business, R. […]

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CECILIA ‘CISSIE’ COHEN and ABRAHAM ‘ALF’ ROSENBLATT

were married on the 5 January 1936 at the East London Synagogue, Rectory Square, Stepney with the reception at The Cafe Royal, Regent Street. Alf’s parents, Sarah & Reuben, a shoe-maker from Russia, lived in Stamford Hill & had four sons & three daughters. Cissie was the middle daughter of Millie & Abraham Cohen who […]

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FRANCES COHEN

in March 1932 aged 4 months. Frances & her elder brother, Murray, lived with their parents Sarah (née Morovitch) and Solomon Cohen above their chemist shop in Redmans Rd, Stepney. Family were evacuated to Letchworth in 1941, returning to Amhurst Park in 1949. Frances later became a barrister and married Henry Field, a psychiatrist, from […]

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SYLVIA SWIRSKY and MOSES ‘MO’ BLOK

were married on 18 December 1932 at the Stamford Hill Beit Hamedrash Synagogue. Sylvia was born in Kirsanov, Lithuania in 1908 and came to the UK with her parents, Abraham & Udice, in 1912. Mo was born in Groningen, Holland in 1908. He joined the family sack business & as part of his training came […]

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REBECCA ‘BECKY’ SHOOB & ABRAHAM ‘ALF’ SOBELL

were married on 17 July 1932 at the Great Garden Street Synagogue in Whitechapel. The page boys were Becky’s nephews, Basil & Stanley Shoob & the bridesmaids were the sisters of Becky & Alf – Sarah ‘Sadie’ Shoop (later Brick) & Rachel ‘Ray’ Sobell (later Waterman). The couple started life in Brady St E1 & […]

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DORA ACKERMAN

a bridesmaid at the wedding of Aida Margolis & Hyman Lever (click here) in October 1931. Dora, a friend of Aida, was married in 1933 to Nathan Misner & had one daughter in 1936 and a son a year later. Both Dora & Nathan worked in the jewellery trade. During WWII, Nathan served in the […]

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AIDA MARGOLIS

prior to her marriage to Hyman Lever (click here) in October 1931. Daughter of Esther & David Margolis. Mother Esther arrived in the UK in 1897 from Tarnow, Poland & father David in 1899 from Belgorod, Dnestrovsky in Georgia – near the Black Sea.

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DEBORAH NUNEZ VAZ and VICTOR MORRIS

(previously Vigoda Plotzkar) were married on 21 February, 1937 at the Clapton Federation Synagogue, Lea Bridge Road. Victor was a taxi driver and during WWII drove for the US Army. Their bridesmaid was three-year-old, Ann Lemberger, Deborah’s niece. Ann later married Sidney Posner from Brighton on 7 September, 1958 at Dunstan Road Synagogue, Golders Green. […]

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ELSIE PLISKIN and ISRAEL ‘VICTOR’ PLISKIN

first cousins aged nine and six at the wedding of their cousin Minnie Pliskin, a milliner, and Barnett Cooklin, a cabinet maker, on 11 December, 1932 at Jubilee Street Great Synagogue. Victor’s winged collar was specially made by the outfitters Mays in Whitechapel Road, next door to the famous ‘Blind Beggar’ pub. Victor later married […]

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