 In the early 1950s , Hollamby and Doris were living in St. Peter 's Square , Hammersmith with two friends , Dick and Mary Toms . Born in London , Richard " Dick " Toms ( 1914 – 2005 ) was largely self @-@ taught as an architect , and had met and befriended Edward during the war before gaining employment alongside him at the LCC . Toms ' wife Mary ( née Lehner , 1920 – 2010 ) was Austrian but had been born in Berlin , Germany . Because her grandfather was Jewish , she fled Austria after it was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938 . Both couples were involved in left @-@ wing political activism , being members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the British @-@ Soviet Friendship Society ; they were thus sympathetic to the far left political causes to which Morris had devoted much of his later life . 
