Florence Lindsey obituary | Politics | The Guardian

Florence Lindsey obituary | Politics | The Guardian

... She was born in Lambeth, eldest of five daughters of Florence (nee Meredith) and Arthur Cole ... By the 1950s my parents had saved up enough to acquire a leather goods and shoe-repairing business at Kennington Cross, and my mother became bookkeeper, head buyer and manager of my father and one employee. Syd became a Labour councillor in Lambeth and Florence served as a school governor at Henry Fawcett primary school at Kennington Oval ...