Comments on: Marie Iles, Machinist

By: Paula LH

Paula LH — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 04:48:55 +0000

What a lovely story! It brought a smile to my face.

By: Gary Gillman

Gary Gillman — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 01:03:14 +0000

A warm and inspiring story. It brought to mind, as I was paging down the images, the song “Picture Book” by the The Kinks, which states in part that families took pictures and placed them in a book, “…to prove they loved each other a long time ago, a long time ago”.

Gary Gillman, Toronto.

By: Phil Maxwell

Phil Maxwell — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:45:48 +0000

A wonderful life – thanks so much for sharing.

By: valerie-Jael

valerie-Jael — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:49:17 +0000

Thanks for the lovely story! I was born and grew up in Stepney and Whitechapel, and went to school in Arbour Square, so this holds lots of good memories for me! Valerie

By: Molasses

Molasses — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 05:06:19 +0000

Life is life – so happy you can capture this wonderful life.

Not sure why but I cried reading it – happy tears for the strength we all have.

By: Cherub

Cherub — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 20:57:05 +0000

I’ve been married 27 years and if I make it to 60 like Marie and Fred I will have achieved something in life. What a lovely story, it is so important to have all these things recorded for future generations to share. Marie and Fred’s prefab from years ago reminds me of my first home as a small child in the 60s. When it was knocked down to make way for the new place we moved to my mum and dad shed a tear as they loved their little “detached prefab bungalow” as my dad referred to it. He made it sound so posh 🙂

Cannot believe this couple are in their 80s, they look sprightly and great together – must be all the love and respect between them.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 20:02:37 +0000

Congratulations Marie and Fred. It’s been wonderful reading about your lives and so grateful to the Gentle Author for introducing you to us! So sorry to hear about Smudge but how lucky that she found you all those years ago. Very best wishes to you both.x

By: Elizabeth Venables

Elizabeth Venables — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 19:42:55 +0000

What an inspiring couple. And what beautiful photos. Thank you Gentle Author.

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:11:57 +0000

Such a moving story from a natural wordsmith. I’m sad to say that I’ve just come back from breaking the sad news that their lovely Smudge, pictured in the accompanying story about Fred, has died. Fred and Marie gave her a wonderful life. It was a comfort to Marie that they have the beautiful pictures of her from the Gentle Author’s post.

By: Katie Keller

Katie Keller — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 12:45:13 +0000

Beautiful story. I especially loved that the Germans were coming- but not to Garden St. Living in NYC during the 9/11 attack gave me a much deeper understanding of what the English populace endured in WWII. Loved this!