he researchers on the latest series of were fascinated to discover from census returns that Andrew Lloyd Webber's great great grandfather. This project had identified surviving archival resources for institutions that transformed Bloomsbury into an intellectual hub during the 19th century, among them the London City Mission (LCM). Here we learnt that at its small Tower Bridge Road office this Christian organisation retains its missionaries' daily journals created since its foundation in 1835. A volunteer archivist managing the LCM collection helped us to find a record of Henry's initial interview to become a missionary in 1852 in the LCM committee minutes, revealing that he had worked as an actor in saloons as a young man. His obituary, which was published in in 1892, told us that he devoted his energy to preaching in pubs in the East End and in coffee shops in South London. The LCM can be contacted via the online form at , and back issues of the magazine, published regularly since 1836, can also be accessed at the British Library.
