Comments on: Holland Estate Portraits

By: saima

saima — Fri, 15 May 2015 14:59:02 +0000

we love our estate and thats me and my mum and my friend Taher

By: saima

saima — Fri, 15 May 2015 13:36:20 +0000

IM SIAMA

By: Susan Goldman

Susan Goldman — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 08:20:10 +0000

So sad the way people are treated nowadays. No doubt the new homes built will be sold off to the rich after this little community has been torn apart and dispersed to wherever. The residents look very proud of their nicely kept homes, they don’t look like slums inside! There have been plenty of this type of housing estate that has been refurbished (look at Wapping-my great granddad lived at Parry House, Green bank, and it’s still there!) so why not this one? I hope that this estate can be saved and the social cleansing of Tower Hamlets halted, but I somehow doubt it. It’s just very very sad.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 16:32:46 +0000

I do hope those of us who are anxious to help avoid the destruction of this fairly obviously thriving community can offer our support in some way. Best wishes to you all!
Ian

By: Pam

Pam — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 12:34:24 +0000

Old does not mean condemned or uninhabitable it just means well used and cared for. Is the Tower of London, or anyone of the large royal palaces with all the rats, yes, there are those creatures there uninhabitable? Officer live there as do many other inhabitants.
Owners of the property need to use their profits, made many times over to do the upkeep. I worked in the Whitechapel area for years and loved every minute.
Pam

By: Caroline Murray

Caroline Murray — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 12:18:32 +0000

Yet again, the Gentle Author shows up and *ought* to shame the deviousness (not to use a stronger word!) of landlords/developers who seem determined to forge ahead in pursuit of profit, regardless of the wishes and the needs of the communities who so inconveniently live in ‘their’ territory.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 11:46:17 +0000

Thank you for sharing the loving face of this community. Your photographs are a testament to the dignity of the residents.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 09:26:30 +0000

What handsome people!

By: paul boucher

paul boucher — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 07:56:37 +0000

Really lovely portraits of this community. The developers must not destroy it.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 07:50:46 +0000

East End Homes , sit up and listen ! A sense of community and belonging must not be swept away as it was in the sixties with East End slum clearance . Allow residents to know what is best for their well-being and respect their understanding of what it is that makes a place a home . Uprooting tenants against their will and ignoring the opportunity to develop communities is shameful . Who will really benefit from this proposed redevelopment I wonder ? I am highly suspicious .