Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1915 — The Tooley Steet Tailors. [ARTICLE]

The Tooley Steet Tailors.

Everyone has heard of “the three tailors of Tooley street” but it is not generally known that only two of them were tailors. The. three men were John * Grose, tailor, Tooley street; Thomas Satterly, tailor, Weston street, and George Sandham, grocer, Bermondsey street They were accustomed to meet after business hours at a public house in Tooley street in Southwark to drink beer, smoke their pipes, talk politics and discuss public affairs. During the movement for Catholic emancipation when Canning was prime minister, these three worthies determined to petition parliament on the subject, and they commenced the document with these words, “We, the people of England!”