Comments on: So Long, Charlie Burns

By: Hanif Loonat

Hanif Loonat — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 20:02:12 +0000

Lovely memories I have . We traded on Sclater street and owned buildings in the area. From the London Trimmings Family . R.I.P.

By: Beve

Beve — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 10:58:53 +0000

A few days ago I was walking though brick lane and saw the graffiti of Charlie Burns 1915-2012. I liked it, but I didn’t know who Chalie Burns was. Now I know. Thank you

By: Robert Grainger

Robert Grainger — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:45:03 +0000

I met Charlie and family in the mid 80’s. I worked for BT in the City and Charlie did our removals. Reading this he was in his 70’s then and still actively moved stuff with his boys. I’m doing the knowledge now to be a cabbie and always past by Bacon St. I’ll be sure to stop and say hello to Charlie’s lovely mural when I do. Always remembered.

Robert (Bob) Grainger

By: Judy

Judy — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:34:06 +0000

A very beautiful tribute to an – obviously – very special human being!
Thank you!

By: metighe {niece}

metighe {niece} — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:25:28 +0000

Thank you for this honest story of my uncle charlie you described it perfectly
god bless uncle charlie xxx

By: Eastendtwin

Eastendtwin — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:49:05 +0000

Sorry to hear of the sad loss – i remember when you used to come to our house – as we lived in Bethnal Green – which you knew our father the late Freddie Read – who passed away in Sept 2010 – so Charlie R.I.P and my God be with you.

By: Asad Khan and family

Asad Khan and family — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:14:05 +0000

Old man will never forgoton, I wonder if we will not talk about him any single day. He lives in our hearts and he will stay there forever. How can we forget your prediction for our twins. I will always wonder that who told you that. I believe that you knew people deep from there souls. My children will not see the man who wished blessing for them every day, but stories that we will tell them. Who says that blood relations are the only relations. This relation of love and respect with you will never broke , we promise.

By: Heather. charly burns my uncle

Heather. charly burns my uncle — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:25:40 +0000

It is a honour to have had this man as my uncle, my mother is his sister Marie, the youngest and last of that generation.
My mother has always told me stories of their childhood, and in what high regard she had for her elder brother. The tricks he would play on her, the teasing etc, and like most children of that era, how their working lives started so young. I loved meeting him, he always had a good story to tell, and we always left with a laugh.
He truly was a rare and generous and charitable man, life will never be the same down Bacon Street, an era has ended with the passing of this wonderful charecter.

By: Alan Gilbey

Alan Gilbey — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:45:28 +0000

A lovely tribute – as was the mural. Is there any chance of getting the artist back to restore his work as other grafitti ‘artists’, with far less respect for the area, have now scrawled and sprayed their self promotions across it?

By: maria

maria — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:42:20 +0000

a long full life, enviable in many ways: charlie was constatnly surrounded not just by his nuclear family but his extended one in the neighbourhood – few people can claim to have such a large family to turn to on a daily basis