Vera Menchik - history in Hastings

[jobriggs]

I'm writing a biography of Vera Menchik - I wondered if the club membership records will tell me what number St. John's Road was the family's address in the early 1920's. Any ideas? I know that the club came by her medals somehow - no mean feat as I think they were in the house in Lambeth where she died in an air-raid in 1944. If there are any archivists or chess document collectors out there, please let me know if you have anything Menchik-related - including copies of Chess magazine from the 1920's and 30's - or if you know where any local material on her might be. Jo.

[Stompond]

I will check the Minute Books some time, see if I can trace when she applied for membership.

Paul Buswell

[Stompond]

Sorry, the Minute Book refers to her joining but gives no address.

[Stompond]

Brian Denman (temporarily incommunicado) reckons 13 or 73 St. John's Rd., probably the former, depending on how yoiu read her writing....