Five Historic things you never thought you needed to know. #6 [Including a bit of the truth about Trolly Lolly and why Bethnal Green could be good for your health]

 Five Historic things you never thought you needed to know. #6




  • William May was a pirate of Henry Every’s ship, ‘Fancy’. He had lost the use of his limbs and was brought ashore on the Comoros Islands. The appearance of three well armed East Indies vessels made the pirates flee, leaving May behind to the mercy of Captain Edgecomb..  Given the choice of being taken to Bombay for trial or left alone on a strange shore May took the Robinson Crusoe option.  It was his great good luck that one of the inhabitants had spent some time living in Bethnal Green and chose to look after May till the ‘Fancy’ returned.


  • Five people were hung on 21st September 1715 including Trolly Lolly, (a Name she was committed and tried by) condemn'd for breaking the House of Mr. Christopher Hurt, and stealing thence a Pair of Flaxen Sheets, and other Goods.


  • On 7th October 1944 the Nottingham Evening Post announced ‘Training of women as engineers by the Ministry of Labour is to stop in a few weeks, as no more skilled women workers are needed in war industries. ‘


  • The collection of iron railings for scrap ended in September 1944. Iron had been collected early in 1940, with a focus on railings in August of that year.


  • One of the earliest recipes for Pineapple based treats can be found on Richard Bradley’s ‘The Country Housewife and Lady’s Director.’



 To make a Tart of the Ananas, or Pine-Apple. From Barbadoes.


Take a Pine-Apple, and twist off its Crown: then pare it free from the Knots, and cut it in Slices about half an Inch thick; then stew it with a little Canary wine, or Madera Wine, and some Sugar, till it is thoroughly hot, and it will distribute its Flavour to the Wine much better than any thing we can add to it. 


When it is as one would have it, take it from the Fire; and when it is cool, put it into a sweet Paste, with its Liquor, and bake it gently a little while, and when it comes from the Oven, pour Cream over it (if you have it) and serve it either hot or cold.

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