Comments on: Professor Dick Hobbs, Criminologist

By: Barry Hobbs

Barry Hobbs — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 14:59:11 +0000

Message for Laurain Hobbs (june 5 2016)

Another Hobbs , I’m from the Portsmouth line and still here.
We came from Titchfield (a village near Fareham) in the 1860’s to Pompey.
I’ve traced the Titchfield line back to the late 1600’s

Barry Feb 2022

By: Laurain HOBBS

Laurain HOBBS — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 01:33:14 +0000

Hello Prof Hobbs,

I would like to say a very big thank you for your part that you take in the show “Who do you think you are” also never to late to Congratulate you for that & what you have done with your life & now show people like myself who do Family History how important it is to find out as much as possible of our family back grounds.
My Grandfather & his son my father who were Hobbs from Middlesex & Kent & that I have traced so far back to Portsmouth, dear old George Hobbs who came & married in Spitalfields.
Once again a big thank you.
Kind Regards.
Laurain Hobbs.

By: David Sykes

David Sykes — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:28:51 +0000

Dear Prof Hobbs

I just watched you this morning on the subject of Twiggy ‘Who do you think you are’. I could tell from your accent that you were a good old east end boy. I felt so proud of what you have achieved.

I am also an East ender born in Limehouse-our house was right opposite Canary Wharf-I played in the banana warehouses there as a boy.

After a career in football I went to London University and read law and became a solicitor. I obtained my first degree in 1972 and became a solicitor in April 1975. I also studied for my LL.M and PGC (European law) whilst practising as a lawyer in London.

I have just returned to Essex University to read for my PhD in law-I am just entering my third year. My subject involves equitable principles in judicial proceedings.

Keep up the good work-I am sure you have and are still encouraging others from similar working class backgrounds to achieve their goals

Warmest regards-David Sykes

By: Billy Hunt

Billy Hunt — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 08:45:58 +0000

This is a truly insightful article, providing a highly amusing and detailed observation of the entrepreneurial work-ethic, coupled with the normality of a culture of crime and deviance of London’s East End. I have read his latest book ‘Lush Life’, which is as good a read as this article. It is well worth getting a hold of. And, if Rick Wakeman could date page three models there’s hope for us all yet…

By: Cherub

Cherub — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 16:08:09 +0000

I am loving the art deco style bathroom suites. Just over 10 years ago I had the misfortune to be flooded out of my house and had to move to a bungalow built in about 1930. It still had the original bathroom fittings like the ones here, in a pale mint green. Must have been luxury back then.

By: Ray of Hackney

Ray of Hackney — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 15:25:19 +0000

Great read. Can’t wait to read “Lush life”. I hope I can get it here in the US

By: heather d

heather d — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 08:43:09 +0000

what an interesting contribution and so true – duckng and diving was what my dad built his business on after the war. Doing the deal and a spit and a handshake was how he traded – so this little gem about Nichols and Clarke’s ’employees’ brings back many memories. T

By: Libby Hall

Libby Hall — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 06:47:49 +0000

Wonderful! ‘Do you work here?’ ‘Not if I can help it.’

Ah nostalgia for the East End I first lived in. How almost-gentle it was compared to the corporate-competitive East End now.

By: Caroline Bottomley

Caroline Bottomley — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 05:40:08 +0000

Dick Hobbs! I read you at art college – nice to meet you 🙂