Comments on: So Long, Lennie Saunders

By: Sheila butt

Sheila butt — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 14:08:08 +0000

RIP Lennie you and Annie were a match made in heaven I have wonderful memories of you both x

By: Harold Rantor

Harold Rantor — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 08:00:39 +0000

I am so very sad to read of the death of Lennie Saunders I grew up on the Council Estate on Stamford Hill. We lived in Sidlaw House. Lennie lived in Quantock House next door. My dad was a cab driver too and he know Lennie very well. I knew Roy from the Estate and at Stamford Hill Club.
I remember Lennie as a true gentleman. I am very sad. I wish all the surviving members of the Saunders and wider family my condolences and a long life

Harold Rantor

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:22:45 +0000

R.I.P. Uncle Lennie a true East End Gentleman so proud and lucky to have had you in my life every piece of advice you game was a gem.

By: John hayes

John hayes — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 17:52:44 +0000

I Grew up in swanfield St Bethnal Green opposite lenny’s beloved bandstand and was a member of the New Cambridge boys club from 1984 -1988 My Dad Alfie Hayes, who was the Branch chairman of the 1/511 T .G.W.U. Which consisted of over 400 licensed spitalfields market porters was a friend of Lenny Saunders and my mum tells me that he and his wife Annie would sometimes pop round to our flat 16 lamb St above spitalfields market in the 1970’s when I was only a baby and I remember Lenny taking badminton classes on a Tuesday night at the Cambridge the other memory of Lenny that I have is of his association with Tottenham Hotspur football club , I believe he was a scout their in the 70’s he definitely accompanied the boys from the new Cambridge club on a tour of White hart lane when such things were uncommon and he was also instrumental in getting footballers such as Spurs player and 1st 1million pound teenager Clive Allen , Man Utd Goalkeeper and ex new Cambridge boy Les Sealy to attended the clubs annual presentation days, He also managed to get hold of four tickets to the 1984 UEFA cup final for my Dad my uncle ,brother and myself , in fact so legendary was his ability to obtain big match tickets that amongst ex Cambridge boys who still go over spurs it’s a running joke when we are struggling for tickets to a big spurs match that someone will inevetibley say to me “Any chance Lenny Saunders can get hold of a couple” Rip Len from John Hayes and family and all other ex New Cambridge boys Cheers!!!

By: Brett Sanders

Brett Sanders — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 18:27:14 +0000

hi
A big thanks for the tribute and those that commented. My granddad was an extraordinary ordinary man. He continued these weekly trips right up until December of last year. The bandstand and east end were his favourite places to visit.

Brett, Grandson

By: Vintage Jane

Vintage Jane — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 08:24:33 +0000

A warm and touching tribute.

By: david green

david green — Sun, 09 Aug 2015 21:02:36 +0000

Another fine story of real life and the good and bad times that go to make it. I greatly appreciate this story.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sun, 09 Aug 2015 12:21:33 +0000

Thank you, I enjoyed reading about this man who I will never meet. RIP Lennie. Beautifully written and with evocative photographs. I am currently reading ‘Shadows of the Workhouse’ by Jennifer Worth. It’s the first book I have read by her, her writings inspired the Call the Midwife series, which I did watch.

By: Joan Bailey

Joan Bailey — Sun, 09 Aug 2015 08:16:06 +0000

In a celebrity obsessed world, your celebration of ordinary people provides a necessary and beautiful contrast. There is such a sense of a real life lived and a touching and dignified sense of loss and personal veneration of the past here. Your portraits of ‘ordinary’ people contain the genus for so many novels or short stories. But these lives ate not fiction, just the stuff of it. I wonder how many actual or would be novelists are inspired by your blog?

By: Ron Goldstein

Ron Goldstein — Sun, 09 Aug 2015 04:53:34 +0000

Many, many thanks Gentle Author for taking the time to pay this tribute.

The Cambridge & Bethnal Green Boy’s Club will forever be in your debt for preserving these wonderful stories and images of childhood in our city.

Long may you reign !

Ron Goldstein