Comments on: Jack Corbett, London’s Oldest Fireman

By: gabrielle

gabrielle — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 07:34:56 +0000

A marvellous man and a life well lived. Inspirational!

By: Justin AR

Justin AR — Fri, 31 May 2013 21:49:09 +0000

What a lovely chap Jack is. I’m certain that he’s had his fair share of hardships but he still seems to have had a charmed life!
My great grandparents got married just down the road from where Jack was married. In Bloomsbury.

Save Clerkenwell FS !!!

By: Barbara

Barbara — Fri, 31 May 2013 08:06:43 +0000

What a gentleman!His family must feel very proud, his story deserves a book of its own.It is heartwarming to read about such honest, hardworking people who have given so much to others. Long may you enjoy your garden Jack.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 30 May 2013 20:17:51 +0000

I’ve only recently tuned in to your blog, a friend of mine told me about it and I’m hooked.

Thank you so much for your excellent choice of stories and well written and researched articles, I particularly enjoyed reading this article and as other readers have commented the photos are simply wonderful.

Thank you.

By: Carolyn Badcock - nee Hooper

Carolyn Badcock - nee Hooper — Thu, 30 May 2013 11:43:48 +0000

What a truly wonderful human being is Jack! A top story of a life of contentment.

Thank-you, gentle author.
Carolyn

By: Tina

Tina — Thu, 30 May 2013 09:32:30 +0000

Sadly do not always get a chance to read your wonderful writings on a daily basis, but this one caught my attention.

Such a fulfilling and worthy life, modest too. I agree with Madame Bordello, noble indeed!

Do they still make them like that anymore? Only a few I think …

Yes, what is happening about the Fire Station?

By: Madame Bordello

Madame Bordello — Thu, 30 May 2013 08:49:54 +0000

Thankyou Gentle Author for this wonderful heart warming story this morning of Jack Corbett. Well thats certainly a life well lived. Contrary to what Jack may think, I find him more noble than starchy – they certainly dont make em like that anymore. And what great pictures. I love particularly the one of Jacks parents Charles and Ann, what wonderful smiles. Love it.
And by the way, cant we do anything about the closure of Clerkenwell Fire Station ???

By: jeannette

jeannette — Thu, 30 May 2013 01:52:23 +0000

i love to hear the centenarians talking about time. how wonderfully spruce and vital he is, from the picture as a boy, through the wonderful pix of his sparkling parents, the amazingly good wedding photo — i’ve never see one like this, in which everyone looks so good == and it all went like clockwork. love to think of him in his sitting room overlooking the flowers, and the pic with the younger firepeople all happy to think they’ll live through the blitz to be 102.
thank you so much. my mother would be 103. i miss her.