Muriel and Doris Lester &
The Heritage of the Kingsley Hall Community Centres

   The website of the Kingsley Hall Community Centres Heritage Committee (KHCCHC)

   Email : info@muriellester.org     Copyright  LAPOLLO Systems on behalf of KHCCHC

   Every attempt has been made to ensure no materials are used without permission of copyright

   owners. If you believe we have breached this please contact us to agree appropriate actions.

Welcome to Muriel Lester.Org Muriel & Doris Lester Doris Lester Lester Family The Origins of the Kingsley Halls KH Bow KH Dagenham Childrens House Childrens House Dagenham Gandhi KH People Past Events Locations Heritage Project The Muriel Lester Archive Oral Histories Blue Plaques Heritage Committee Contact Us Data Protection

Doris Lester


Like Muriel,Doris were educated at St Leonard's College, St Andrews, Aberdeen.


She followed Muriel to Bow in 1904.  


Doris, being interested in child welfare, enrolled into a teacher training college, learning skills that would become a blessing to the children of Bow.  An area in which for every hundred children born fifteen died before their first birthday.