Comments on: A Long Way From Spitalfields

By: Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 23:56:48 +0000

Thank you for a wonderfully sensitive and moving piece.

By: MARIA

MARIA — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:34:59 +0000

dear gentle author – i feel that you came back to london for a different purpose, and everyone reading your stories is grateful for this

By: Linda in Texas

Linda in Texas — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 06:37:49 +0000

Thank you. You opened my eyes and melted my heart. I was clueless the international impact of 911 until I read this. I have only been to NYC once in my life and that was when I was young. I feel so moved knowing this city reaches out to the world, no longer will I think of it as an American city.

By: TokyoDon

TokyoDon — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:38:40 +0000

Thankyou, GA.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:43:58 +0000

Thank you for writing this. I too remember thinking that this could go on all day and and even spread around the world. My thoughts are with everyone who suffered and lost someone.

By: John_F

John_F — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:25:16 +0000

Thank you for a wonderfully sensitive and moving piece – it says so much more than the endless media coverage.

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:22:50 +0000

A wonderful post,thank you.It took me a while to realise that the old century had gone, and that 9/11 had ushered in the new century.You got it same day.

By: Alice C

Alice C — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:37:24 +0000

I have often wondered how you found yourself in Spitalfields and now I understand.

Thank you for this very moving post.

By: CornishCockney

CornishCockney — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:41:16 +0000

Like those of my parents generation who knew exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news of JFKs assassination, people of my generation will always remember the same about 9/11.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:33:06 +0000

Thank you for sharing your story with us all. I too was English and living in New York, and your experience sounds very similar to mine. Like you, I have also relocated to London’s East End. This is a painful time for many of my New York friends and I grieve with them, but I also wish that we would start from today to put the past behind us and turn to hope for the future. As a former US president once said, you have nothing to fear but fear itself. He was right then, as the world lurched from depression to world war, and he would be right to say it today. I know that for many that day it felt like all hope was lost, but it was not. I for one live for a brighter day.