Comments on: Squatters Return To Elder St

By: Mary sullivan

Mary sullivan — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 19:16:40 +0000

Lovely times I used to play in itchychoo park across the road in commercial st and my father was going to buy 15 elder st at the time

By: Mary sullivan

Mary sullivan — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 19:14:46 +0000

I lived in elder st half way down 15 1955 onwards my father and mother were Irish and our cousins lived in foldgate st with me going to st Anne’s school and there was a family named the caswells at the time

By: Douglas Cook

Douglas Cook — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 12:50:46 +0000

I lived in 19 Elder Street with my wife Judith between 1954 and 1955, when the house belonged, or may have been rented, by David Morris, an artist I had met at Bretton Hall Teacher Training College. Our first child, Gillian, was born at that time and we moved out of our single upstairs room for reasons of space, to somewhat different Chingford. Many happy memories of that now distant time.
If anyone has knowledge of David Morris I would love to hear.

By: Anna Davin

Anna Davin — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 20:52:09 +0000

I lived at 19 Elder St with Raph from 1970 to 1975.

I remember the bonfire at the edge of Spitalfields market, where homeless and jobless people gathered overnight, the more fit among them getting casual work as the market set up in the small hours.

I also remember one night when we heard cries for help. A homeless man had clambered over railings into the basement area of an an empty Elder St house and managed to push up the sash window to climb inside for shelter. Unfortunately the sash cords had gone and the window fell back down and trapped him. I climbed over the railings and down to help hold up the window and get him out, and he came back to our kitchen to warm up and be fed before (I think) retreating to the market bonfire.

By: David Milne.

David Milne. — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 16:39:37 +0000

Having known and been a part of this wonderfully beautiful vibrant creative and ancient neighbourhood for the last many decades Id always wondered what had become of that group of very young people who became a symbol to stop the destruction by British Land all those years ago, me being just 10 years old, how lovely to see them all again with Dan as we are now all once again United to stop the Vast and Horrid Desruction of the last surviving part of The Liberty Of Norton Folgate for yet more towers of corporate greed.
This is a neighbourhood that’s loved and cherished not only by the the people who live within it but by the vast amounts of people who come to visit.

David Milne.

By: leslie holeyman

leslie holeyman — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 12:48:14 +0000

Returned last week to Shoreditch and walked through Curtain Road and the maze of streets that make up this locality. By the time I got to Old Street Station had lost count of the cranes and building sites around this area.

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 11:06:17 +0000

Just seen the references to Raphael Samuel and wondered if you had come across Alison Light’s latest book, Common People. tremendous. Though not about London, her quest to honour and understand the lives of her anscestors most of whom were too poor to leave any memorials. shares the spirit of your enquiries.

By: Valerie-Jael

Valerie-Jael — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 10:53:55 +0000

I hope the fight will be successful this time round, too; those greedy land-grabbers and vandals need to be stopped. Valerie

By: Joan Bailey

Joan Bailey — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 09:19:52 +0000

I remember stumbling across the old weavers’ cottages in Spitalfields, a northerner – and one time London resident – exploring a part of London unknow to me. I was familiar with the elegant splendour of Bloomsbury’s squares and terraces but this was different. Here I sensed a different kind of Georgian history, older and somehow more authentic, less monied. As elegant as Gower Street yet more ramshackle. Narrower and ever so slightly oppressive, I could sense the artisans and workers, the traders and the vagabonds in the market. A preserved piece of history. I was amazed and kept walking round Fournier and the adjacent streets taking photographs.
Later, I read about the campaign that had saved these these streets and visited Denis Severs house.
I wish you every success in your campaign to save Northern Folgate and have it modernised in a way that preserves yet renews your area.

By: jeannette

jeannette — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 05:23:09 +0000

https://youtu.be/xlZZEGvwDBY