Ilford Recorder 24 Flashback: Beer theft , candlesticks stolen from a church and a pensions wrangle Ilford Recorder 24 1957: Thieves made off with £60 worth of beer and spirits after they broke into the newly-opened Manor Park British Legion Hall in Church Road. The branch, which had only been there for two months, lost a relay radiogram as well as the expensive booze.

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Flashback: Beer theft, candlesticks stolen from a church and a pensions wrangle – Ilford Recorder 24