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delight to the poor families
who frequented Tower Hill’.
He received the backing of
Lord Wakefield of Hythe, a
former Lord Mayor of
London who made his fortune
founding the Wakefield Oil
Company, later Castrol, and
who became president of the
Tower Hill Improvement
Fund. He bankrolled ‘all the
beach expenses pre-World
War Two,’ explains Rose,
‘and a heap of other good