Comments on: At Time For Tea https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/06/at-time-for-tea/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Tue, 29 Nov 2022 02:42:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: John Vercoutre https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/06/at-time-for-tea/#comment-1492889 Tue, 29 Nov 2022 02:42:03 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=132243#comment-1492889 Thank you andrew it’s lovely to hear you memories and by the way it was a Austin Hereford .. I’d like to move to the north one day ? Such wonderful folk

]]> By: John Vercoutre https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/06/at-time-for-tea/#comment-1453479 Thu, 17 Mar 2022 07:26:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=132243#comment-1453479 I must admit : I don’t miss snoreditch at all as it’s become so cool and contrived ….

]]> By: Andrew Atkinson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/06/at-time-for-tea/#comment-1385695 Thu, 15 Jul 2021 16:42:21 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=132243#comment-1385695 I used to go to Brick Lane/Clubrow in the 1990’s and early 2000’s to look for old tools mainly, I’ve always been a bit too good at ‘wasting’ time. One time, I think it was after I had finished at the markets and was idling around pushing my bicycle away from the market and I saw this lovely old big, very rounded car, an Austin Somerset. After a while the friendly owner appeared and we had a chat that I still remember. I told him I liked his car as I thought it was like a big Austin A30 (my favorite car if I had ever learned to drive!)
The car was parked outside his house which had “Time for tea” painted on it and he said something to the effect that he thought that in the ever moving modern world it was important that we should have” time for tea”. I used to look out for the Time for tea house and the big round car if I was in the area and i remembered until I moved back up North in 2005
I hope the friendly man I met that day is still making time for tea, I am

]]> By: Brandon https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/06/at-time-for-tea/#comment-1268949 Thu, 07 Mar 2019 22:45:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=132243#comment-1268949 So glad to find this article! My band shot a music video almost entirely in Time for Tea back in 2009. Johnny was a lovely host, and his house was amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhF0z2hQt0k

Sadly, it looks like the building has now become a Lavenham retail shop. Rural gentleman clothing marketed to hipsters. Sigh.

]]> By: Johnny vercoutre https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/06/at-time-for-tea/#comment-1237472 Mon, 12 Nov 2018 14:37:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=132243#comment-1237472 Thank you for a wonderful article and for the touching comments and yes a lot of the original features have be thrown in a skip !!;(

]]> By: Michelle https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/06/at-time-for-tea/#comment-928744 Wed, 08 Apr 2015 08:44:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=132243#comment-928744 This makes me so sad. It’s awful to think of developers destroying this amazing place that has been so obviously cherished by this truly individual gent.

]]> By: Meridith Moore https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/06/at-time-for-tea/#comment-928275 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 19:22:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=132243#comment-928275 I can’t quite believe how enchanting this article is. I wish I were wealthy so I could assist the gent in staying there. Everything from the signage, furnishings and green tub are marvelous.

]]> By: Neville Turner https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/06/at-time-for-tea/#comment-927397 Mon, 06 Apr 2015 20:34:06 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=132243#comment-927397 An interesting story for me if it is the same building as I recall it as a savings bank in the 1950’s where my mother opened her one and only bank account,I remember when it closed and ceased as a bank going with her to close the account,the manager was friendly and very polite.Johnny Vercoutre has done this little gem of a building a credit in showing us inside,good luck to you and Time For Tea.

]]> By: deptford pudding https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/06/at-time-for-tea/#comment-927231 Mon, 06 Apr 2015 17:06:03 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=132243#comment-927231 S’pose it’ll be around a millyun ? Sigh.

]]> By: jenn https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/06/at-time-for-tea/#comment-927111 Mon, 06 Apr 2015 15:35:36 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=132243#comment-927111 I always wondered what this place was! I have walked by it so often and it was never open or anything.
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