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Why we’ll miss Jim
• YOU published an excellent article by Mary Cosh about the late Jim Lagden, who for many years organised the Friends of Islington Museum (Museum campaigner who contributed to the brighter side of life, April 3).
Like Mary, I greatly appreciated Jim’s wide-ranging activities, including the Islington Canal Festival, and I would like to add my admiration of what Jim called his Timeline display, a series of maps showing Islington as it was in the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
These maps gave a graphic illustration of how Islington grew from a country village, regularly visited by Samuel Pepys for Sunday afternoon tea, to the bustling shopping centre it has now become.
Also, like Mary, I suffered endless telephone calls from Jim, invariably on issues that were very important, but which could have been resolved in very much less time. Nevertheless, Islington would have been a poorer place without Jim’s boundless energy and it will be a poorer place without the familiar sight of Jim and his guide dog Flint.
HARLEY SHERLOCK
Alwyne Place, N1
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