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Mayor of Camberwell (later combined with Bermondsey and Southwark) 1945 and 1946, and wife of the 1947-49 Mayor Frederick George Burgess.

School girl Pamela Phillips, aged 17, was chosen by Jessie Burgess to be her Mayoress to represent the youth who had put up with the hardships of the Second Wold War. She was known in the press as the 'School Girl Mayoress'.

Wikipedia page [1], and information here

Burgess Park is named after her.

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