Comments on: Dan Cruickshank In Norton Folgate

By: Megan

Megan — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 06:15:58 +0000

Superb video thank you

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 16:22:31 +0000

Don’t give up the fight! London’s history and heritage is the bedrock not only of its tourist trade but also of the city’s very identity. Yet in the last decade, huge swathes of its old distinctive buildings have been torn down to be replaced with identikit cliches built to a budget rather than an aesthetic.

All too quickly we could find the goose that has laid the golden egg for decades has not only been killed but stuffed and served up to some transitory City diner. This development might generate a few tens of millions for British Land but it would cost the city very many times that in the damage it would wreak on London’s historic sense of itself and its appeal to foreign visitors.

Hang in there!

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 28 May 2015 11:35:49 +0000

Very Good short film !
Norton Folgate deserves better than to be destroyed.
It has been saved once, and its quality was recognised then.
Tourists enjoy visiting it. Any new plan needs to take these points on board.
Something better than the latest proposal is needed.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 11:15:51 +0000

I have walked these streets for many years, tracing my family history.
Many of my forebears walked these streets for 180 years.
Some of the names have changed, but the buildings remain.
It’s this connection to people and history that brings people here.
British Land and greed are doing what the blitz could not.
Lots of change and “smartening up”has gone around Brick Lane, and Bethenal Green, office space and no community.
Death of an area. No! No NO!

By: Keith Styles

Keith Styles — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 16:03:19 +0000

I travel back to Spitalfields as often as i can and am horrified to see the changes to such an historically important and beautiful part of the EastEnd of London. To see the encroachment of the city into this place is shocking. All the old buildings as they are should be preserved for all to see for many years to come. Office blocks, tower blocks, glass and steel monstrosities popping up so quickly. My father’s mum’s family were born and brought in and up around Little Pearl Street (now Jerome Street) in the mid to late Victorian period and my mum, her father and his siblings worked in the furriers in and around Spitalfields and Norton Folgate 1940s onwards. I’m still trying to trace Sid Keye (Furrier) whom they worked for back then. I’d love to know what ever happened to him. Spitalfields to me is part of my family and should be protected from too much change.

By: m.hardie

m.hardie — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 18:18:31 +0000

I spent all my youth in Spitalfields (my wife lived in Peabody Buildings) and for it to be turned into an area just like anywhere else is criminal.
It was a slum area when I was a boy but now it is something beautiful and if it was ruined the people who do it should hang their heads in shame.(As the stuff even more money into the banks)

By: Jen Teulon

Jen Teulon — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 09:35:22 +0000

Excellent film, thank you! I’m descended from a Hugenot family; enjoyed visiting the area and will give the campaign my support…

By: Neil Angus

Neil Angus — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 08:33:56 +0000

Why not raise a Government epetition so that people can participate in trying to stop this development

By: Derek Murrell

Derek Murrell — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:44:43 +0000

It’s so easy to destroy -not so easy to recreate our heritage. I am particularly interested in Old Artillery Ground where my forebears lived. Is it included in the fateful plan?

By: Ben Murphy

Ben Murphy — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 16:41:18 +0000

Please do not forgive them ( the developers ) for they know exactly what they do. Would they be able to say to their grandchildren they were proud of wiping out a significant and important part of the historic Urban Landscape of London?
It is incredulous that profit and greed could be allowed to destroy this beautiful site of British cultural heritage, and in this erasure lose sight of the very reason why this place is a pleasant, historic, meaningful and interesting area. This act of vandalism would be a crime not dissimilar to IS destroying the ancient artefacts in Syria and Iraq.
I say destroy the company British Land. They are intent on making as much money as they can without a concern for history, community or heritage. Hold them to account and let them rot in one of their plastic characterless buildings. Would they be able to say to their grandchildren they were proud of wiping out a part of the British cultural Landscape?
Well done to Dan Cruickshank and Sebastian Sharples for bringing attention to this cause in such an articulate and forceful way.