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Grappling With History
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Rediscovering Jack Wannop ('The Most Popular Man in New Cross') and the wrestlers and boxers of 1880s East and South East London 🤼‍♂️🥊

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    1. Grappling With History‏ @wrestling1880s 30 Oct 2020
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      In 1885 popular East End boxer Alec Munro (Alexander Hayes Munroe) from Kingston, Jamaica, born around 1859, trained with Jem Mace, was stabbed to death in a Whitechapel doss house. THOUSANDS lined Bethnal Green's streets for his funeral, but he was buried in a pauper's grave 1/4pic.twitter.com/nJK6egAQsE

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    2. Grappling With History‏ @wrestling1880s 30 Oct 2020
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      His friend, boxing pupil, and fellow Jamaican Hezekiah Moscow, aka Ching Ghook or Hook, called on The @SportingLife to state that he would have a monumental headstone put up in Alec's honour. A rare thing for a man who had lived and died in a squalid "den of thieves" 2/4pic.twitter.com/M4G6IOzyDv

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      Did he get it done? Munroe’s grave reference information points to an area of mass graves, buried over with more soil and built up, another layer of poor bodies chucked in on top a few decades later. Only three half-buried stones remain in this section of Manor Park Cemetery 3/4pic.twitter.com/hDokTuabrW

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    4. Grappling With History‏ @wrestling1880s 30 Oct 2020
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      But here he is. Alexander Hayes Munroe. You can read a bit more about Alec in my first blog post on Hezekiah, but there’ll be more to come on the blog and my book! 4/4 https://grapplingwithhistory.com/2019/05/07/where-did-you-go-hezekiah-moscow/ …pic.twitter.com/RL9sELMkYO

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      Grappling With History‏ @wrestling1880s 30 Oct 2020
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      I should mention that I've collected much more on Munroe's life, career, and death, since writing his brief entry on the blog. Have also been collaborating with the National Archives on a project re. Munroe & Moscow, and look forward to sharing it. So so glad he has been 'found'.

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        1. Sean Robbins‏ @sean_robbins 30 Oct 2020
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          'Frederick Gallanger' was actually Frederick Adam Gehringer, lodging house keeper. He was quite possibly an East End crime lord. Ironically, the notes from the trial give his name as Frederick Dinger! https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=def1-954-18851019&div=t18851019-954#highlight …

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