Comments on: Grace Payne, City of London Resident https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/04/grace-payne-city-of-london-resident/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 05 Oct 2020 01:07:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: David Bryn Williamson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/04/grace-payne-city-of-london-resident/#comment-1354365 Mon, 05 Oct 2020 01:07:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=25552#comment-1354365 Hello Grace,
I was wondering how you have been doing all these years since you left Hong Kong. I remember seeing you once when you returned aeons ago but never again. I presume you never returned as you must have had a busy life in London. From your internet blog you look quite well and seem to have plenty to do. I expect by now you might be in your 80’s or even early 90’s.
I retired from St. Paul’s in 2009 and live in Pok Fu Lam Gardens. I haven’t been to many events this year at St. Paul’s and I don’t see the old teachers that often and only rearely see Kwok Chun. I am a member of the Helena May and play a full part in the community there, doing school and public tours of the building, and am also a member of the book club. I hope you are well and have kept safe during the Covid-19 crisis. This month concerts will begin again and I have five tickets for concerts, all of Beetthoven’s music. Is Janet Heady still around? If she is, I expect you may still be in contact with her.

Best wishes,
Bryn Williamson

]]> By: Simon Moore https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/04/grace-payne-city-of-london-resident/#comment-1187922 Fri, 22 Dec 2017 11:32:03 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=25552#comment-1187922 Lovely article. I woke up this morning for some reason thought about grace and douglas they commissioned a bespoke table and bench from me for there Barbican flat along time ago, such gracious people, great clients to a young furniture designer. Lovely people.

]]> By: Angela https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/04/grace-payne-city-of-london-resident/#comment-27253 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:29:46 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=25552#comment-27253 I very much enjoyed reading your article and I’m very happy to know that Grace is as active and beautifull as 15 years ago. Haven’t forgotten your delicious crunchies!! Best wishes , Grace, from France!

]]> By: Fotini Vergottis https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/04/grace-payne-city-of-london-resident/#comment-12343 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:51:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=25552#comment-12343 What an interesting article, Sarah, on Grace!
I always felt it a privilege to sing with her and have a little chat, whenever we meet; she is beautiful, energetic,knowledgable-a polymath- and very modest. Grace and Douglas are a wonderful pair, so full of life and interests, with an undiminished sense of wonder and wanderlust.
Grace, have you considered writing your memoirs?
Thank you Sarah for giving us a lovely insight of Grace’s life story.

]]> By: Debby Chan-Gaskin from Canada https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/04/grace-payne-city-of-london-resident/#comment-7647 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:41:30 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=25552#comment-7647 Great article! I feel honoured to have met Grace when she lived in Hong Kong. She is such a kind and interesting person!! Thank you for sharing with us this wonderful interview.

]]> By: Gayle Logan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/04/grace-payne-city-of-london-resident/#comment-7486 Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:20:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=25552#comment-7486 I’m afraid Grace’s crunchie cannot be replicated – we have tried many times and my boys still prefer that made by Great Grannie Grace!
A wonderful read Sarah.

]]> By: jeannette https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/04/grace-payne-city-of-london-resident/#comment-7439 Sun, 06 Mar 2011 05:49:42 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=25552#comment-7439 chris! you’re adorable, thank you.

]]> By: gary https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/04/grace-payne-city-of-london-resident/#comment-7387 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:53:47 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=25552#comment-7387 what a nice story

]]> By: Chris F https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/04/grace-payne-city-of-london-resident/#comment-7321 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:43:12 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=25552#comment-7321 Here you go Jeannette, try this recipe.
You need 4 level tablespoons of Golden Syrup melted with 4 oz margarine in a saucepan. To this you add 3 oz granulated sugar and 8 oz porridge oats, put into a greased square tin and cook for around 30 minutes on Gas 3. I have managed to over cook these sometimes and they go too hard and crunchy. I have also found (through experience) that you must cut them up while still warm otherwise they harden too quickly and it is then difficult to cut them into shapes. I’ve just had two with a cup of tea…. Yum…

]]> By: Jean Weddle from the USA https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/04/grace-payne-city-of-london-resident/#comment-7312 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:59:07 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=25552#comment-7312 What a lovely story about a lovely woman. I love articles like this that interview people who’ve touched history and can tell us about old times. My father is Grace’s age and I love to listen to his stories about the early/mid 1900’s, so this story shared by Grace was something I enjoyed a lot. I would like to see more blog entries like this.

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