Comments on: My beautiful community launderette https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/03/09/my-beautiful-community-laundrette/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Sam How https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/03/09/my-beautiful-community-laundrette/#comment-1550070 Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:43:00 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=5705#comment-1550070 Our beautiful Boundary Estate Community Launderette has been shut down without warning by the council! Tracey, Tina and Mina, the loverly ladies who worked there, are suddenly unemployed. Residents have nowhere to take their washing and we have lost a well-loved community space and vital community resource.

Please take the time to sign the petition asking for it to be re-opened: https://bit.ly/launderette_petition

For more information and how to write to the council:
https://bit.ly/save_our_launderette

]]> By: paul jennings https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/03/09/my-beautiful-community-laundrette/#comment-35757 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:38:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=5705#comment-35757 I was thinking of setting up a similar project in a northern town (Liverpool or Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Also I wanted to include a lending library/community cafe/wi-fi etc. What do you think please of the idea of using regular domestic washers to save on initial outlay? How long do you think they would hold-up? Look forward to hearing from you and good luck with your community launderette.

]]> By: Boundary Community Launderette https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/03/09/my-beautiful-community-laundrette/#comment-705 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:27:05 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=5705#comment-705 Hello again! For some reason our web link didn’t appear in our previous message, so here it is: http://boundarylaunderette.wordpress.com/
As well as info on the launderette we’ve posted pages on local history, and each week we provide info on local events. We hope to regularly post new pages on items of local interest.
Let us know what you think – you can even subscribe!

The Boundary Community Launderette Team.

]]> By: Boundary Community Launderette https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/03/09/my-beautiful-community-laundrette/#comment-704 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:12:50 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=5705#comment-704 Hello!

We’re pleased to say that the future of the launderette is guaranteed, we’ve agreed a new five year lease with Tower Hamlets, although we’ve had a huge rent increase.

We can now plan ahead – we’ve even got ourselves a web page!

Thanks to everyone who supported us.

The Boundary Community Launderette Team

]]> By: Boundary Community Launderette https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/03/09/my-beautiful-community-laundrette/#comment-703 Sun, 30 May 2010 12:25:03 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=5705#comment-703 Dear Friends

We will finally be able to let everyone know the outcome of our rent neogotiations with the council within the next ten days. When we know the council’s decision we will have to discuss matters as directors, and then with the staff. Once we’ve done that we will let you all know.

It’s something you’re probably fed-up of hearing from us by now, but please suggest our facebook page to your facebook friends. It really could make a huge difference should we find that we may need to start a campaign. And if we don’t need to start a campaign it’s always good to be a fan of something a bit different that does some good – there aren’t many not-for-profit community launderettes around!

BBC Radio 4 have a programme called ‘Saturday Live’, which is a magazine programme that covers all aspects of life in the UK today, and – surprise, surprise – it is on every Saturday at 9am. They will be doing a feature on the launderette in the near future, we’ll let you know the date as soon as we have it.

Enjoy your Bank Holiday Monday, if you’re lucky enough not to be working!

With all best wishes

The Boundary Community Launderette Team

]]> By: Katrina and Pete https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/03/09/my-beautiful-community-laundrette/#comment-422 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:43:47 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=5705#comment-422 I really hope that the council will stop behaving in this nonsensical way and leave the launderette alone. Haven’t they got better – more important – issues to deal with at the moment? Or are they determined to be small minded and ungenerous as usual?

]]> By: Helen Bond https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/03/09/my-beautiful-community-laundrette/#comment-421 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:28:05 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=5705#comment-421 Great to see this publicity for the laundrette, which I have used several times recently and found really friendly and helpful. More strength to it. Surely the rumours I hear about a greedy Council wanting to up its rent AND take a cut of its turnover can’t be true? How can they justify that?

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