Daughter of J.J.H. Septimus Pennington, Rector of St Clement Danes who sits beside her in the photo. On his death her husband, William Pennington-Bickford, took over as Rector there. The church was bombed in May 1941 and William died, it is said, as a result of the shock. Unable to live without her husband Louie jumped from an attic window in September 1941.
tells us that we owe the survival of the nearby so-called 'Roman' bath to William. In 1922 it was threatened with demolition and, convinced of its antiquity, he bought it for £500, and the rest is history, only not as ancient as he thought.
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