Comments on: Christmas At The Whitechapel Mission

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:19:21 +0000

It makes me want to cry to know that so many people live with such little creature comfort. This kind of poverty should have ended by now, and they don’t even have the community the Victorian poor enjoyed in their slums, except for a while in the morning thanks to the Mission.

I’ve just bought your book in order to show a foreigner friend of mine, who has criticised our welfare state, just how important it is as long as vast inequalities in wellbeing still exist.
He comes from South Africa and the images in Spitalfied Nippers could be from there these days, with only a change in skin colour. There is no safety net of welfare in S.A. and people suffer.
The welfare state is not necessarily the best state, but it’s better than nothing.

By: Martin Robb

Martin Robb — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 08:24:34 +0000

Wonderful photos, and wonderful to see that the work of the Mission goes on. My great grandfather, Charles Edward Robb (1851 – 1934) was housekeeper at the Wesleyan East End Mission in Whitechapel in the 1890s:

http://mprobb.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/charles-edward-robb-at-the-wesleyan-east-end-mission/

By: cynthia booker

cynthia booker — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 06:46:52 +0000

I am so glad to see that most have warm jackets/coats. There is a quiet dignity in several of the photos, so there is hope. In 100 years, these pictures will be looked at as we looked at the recently posted pictures of the poor children.

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 13:35:21 +0000

Every picture here telling a story.

By: Achim

Achim — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 09:09:46 +0000

Believe it or not: those missions become more and more necessary in Germany too! “Thanks” to the filthy capitalism and the damned Euro…! — Keep the British Pound alive as long as possible!!

Men like Tony Miller do an very important work nowadays!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

By: Judy

Judy — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 08:42:58 +0000

Thank you dearest Gentle Author for bringing The Whitechapel Mission into our home this morning . We sit about stuffed full of Christmas food, in the company of loving family interrupted by visits from treasured friends. Our bodies and minds well rested from deep sleep in comfy beds and a few days away from work. It is important to never assume this will always be the case and your posting today brings feelings of gratitude but also sorrow that millions across the world have a far from happy Christmas .

By: Valerie-Jael

Valerie-Jael — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 07:35:05 +0000

What Tony and his co-workers and family do is really priceless. Thank God for those who help others in need. Valerie