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A memory of Princelet Street Synagogue and Lipman's shoe shop, 19 Princelet Street - by 87 year old (January 2008) Anne Sloman

 

"I remember 19 Princelet Street well,  but not entirely as a shool. It was the home and business of the Lipman Family. The shop front held Mr. Lipman's shoe repair business, the back of the building the family living rooms. Upstairs, I assume were the family sleeping quarters  I was dating the son Harry around 1940, and remember we were sitting in the kitchen / living  room which joined the shop front. A number of people were walking through the back yard, I asked where they were going was told they were going to Shabbat evening services."

 

So now you know - Until recently the building was a shoe shop and family home with a Federation synagogue built over what would have been the back garden.