Comments on: Row Over Demolition At Geffrye Museum

By: Greg Tingey

Greg Tingey — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:49:19 +0000

Did the launch go well?

Oh, & you’ve made “Nooks & Corners” (Of the new barbarism) in Private Eye – well done!

By: Robert Green

Robert Green — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 23:38:43 +0000

As a young boy I spent many an hour wandering about in this museum with my father, I always enjoyed looking at the room setting’s, However, recently I paid a return visit, my first in over 10 yrs, and although pleased to see little change to the main layout and the room setting’s, I was anything but impressed with the modernized area, an ugly and awkward construction, totally out of character with the original building, and I found the contents of the new section completely irrelevant to the theme of the museum, in fact, completely pointless and a total waste of space.

By: Peter Holford

Peter Holford — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:24:09 +0000

Let’s hope the people who run the Geffrye Museum read this article. Perhaps they might gain some insight. But then again…

By: Ros

Ros — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:35:01 +0000

excellent selection of cuttings and pictures to stoke up the passions that will be needed tonight and in the future to work at preserving the East End’s heritage kept alive in its buildings.

By: Deborah Fyrth

Deborah Fyrth — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 11:57:45 +0000

This lovely and beautifully illustrated article just proves that nothing changes in the world of property development. Also shows how necessary organisations like SPAB and the new East End Preservation Society are. Incidentally, Septimus Buss was a brother of Frances Mary Buss who founded the North London Collegiate School – where I was a pupil back in the mists of time!

By: Ruth Richardson

Ruth Richardson — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 11:20:21 +0000

Hurrah for the LCC!

But how sad for us that we have no intelligent final arbiter that will come down on the side of preservation. Everyone who loves London appreciates why the abolition of the GLC, the successor to the London County Council, was such a catastrophe for the whole of London.

Both national government and local administration now serve to encourage and support the galloping metropolitan necrosis of destruction and so-called ‘development’ that we are witnessing, erasing the history and the archaeology as it goes.

We badly need an East End Preservation Society! I urge everyone who reads Spitalfields Life who can, to come to the founding meeting this evening at the Bishopsgate Institute.

By: Rosemary HOffman

Rosemary HOffman — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 09:49:30 +0000

Having spent a long time as a teenager going to the Geffrye it was fascinating to read its history . IT used to have (don’t know if it still does a lovely garden at the back

By: Greg Tingey

Greg Tingey — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 08:34:53 +0000

The arguments used for a quick buck by the local vestry, & the Irnmongers’ Company, 107 years ago, & those of property “developers” today are totally unchanged, I note. As are the forces of hopeful enlightenment, ranged against them.

By: valerie-Jael

valerie-Jael — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 06:46:45 +0000

Good luck with the meeting ths evening Valerie

By: Libby Hall

Libby Hall — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 06:23:41 +0000

What a fine name – Septimus Buss – and what a fine article contains it.