Comments on: Neville Turner Returns To Elder St

By: barbara sutton

barbara sutton — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:23:01 +0000

I was a friend of Neville and Aubrey and Das in London in the early 60’s.I happened to see a piece on YouTube today about a house in Fournier St up for sale and thought about Neville.On a whim,I googled his name and was astonished to find this article.We lost touch shortly after I emigrated to the USA in October 1963.I live in New York City .I grew up in the 40s in Cardiff.

By: Gordon Lester

Gordon Lester — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 13:14:27 +0000

this brings back lots of memories. I was very good friends with your brother Dougie. I lived over the primrose with my parents Harry and Daisy Lester and I worked in spitalfields as a porter.i would love to know if Dougie and Terry are still alive.

By: Vanda Human

Vanda Human — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 05:28:40 +0000

Gentle Author, your articles are so interesting and graphic that one feels as if you are actually there. Your country is so full of history, I hope and pray that the citizens of your country never destroy the history/ monuments / buildings as they are destorying them in this country (South Africa).

Please dont stop writing, your articles are the highlight of my day.

By: aubrey

aubrey — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 12:44:30 +0000

I remember sitting in Neville’s bedroom with other friends listening to jazz LP’s in the early sixties. I seem to remember that he had a part of a large diameter sewer pipe used as a woofer for his sound system. Great days listening to Ruby Braff et al!

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 12:20:31 +0000

Letters and emails to save Norton Folgate can be sent at:

Beth Eite
Town Planning,
Town Hall,
Mulberry Place,
5 Clove Crescent,
London E14 2BG
Planningandbuilding@towerhamlets.gov.uk

Quoting application numbers:
PA/14/03548
PA/14/03618

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 11:49:21 +0000

How lovely to read of Neville’s return to his childhood home, and great to see that it still remains after so much has been swept away. Thank you Gentle Author and Neville for sharing your story. Loved it!

By: Mary

Mary — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 09:06:15 +0000

A really interesting account of how things used to be. However Spitalfields and the surrounding areas have become ‘trendy’ places to live. ‘Ordinary’ People would have needed to have bought property many years ago or rented years ago – with secure tenancies – to still afford to be part of the communities. Although, as can be seen with modern developers, even those properties are now under threat.

The area has an amazing history (we often travel through or walk around) but these days you are likely to need at least half a million to buy even the smallest flat !

By: Vicki Heneker

Vicki Heneker — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 08:41:41 +0000

I love your stories of the people who lived or live in these old building, I especially love the gritty black and white pics. As I have previously mentioned, my mum’s family lived in the Spitalfield area in the 1800s, and probably the 1900s and I am sure there are family still somewhere there….but one of the children migrated in 1894 and so it goes, but what I am getting at is….your stories of people who lived there even in the 1930’s, 40’s, 50’s, and the beautiful photographs, both modern and old, give me some understanding of what life may have been like for them, and where they lived and how some of the places actually looked . Even though I live so far away in South Australia, I am quite addicted to your posts, and feel almost like I am walking and living there in your footsteps. I crave for the community your posts evoke….thank you .

By: linda salter

linda salter — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 06:56:51 +0000

Lovely to have an in depth, personal account. Evocative pictures of both past and present. Brings social history and importance of care of place and memory home in a very positive way.