Comments on: At Sandwich https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/08/31/at-sandwich/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 09 Jan 2016 19:51:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tony Grant https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/08/31/at-sandwich/#comment-1069000 Sat, 09 Jan 2016 19:51:35 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=137666#comment-1069000 Hello,
Your web site is magnificent, I keep coming back for more. I think you would enjoy a visit to Sandwich 8-11 September 2016 Heritage Open Days, I visited last year and was allowed access to two private houses , the garden of another, the Masonic Hall, the United Reformed church and the Guildhall with a very entertaining Town Sargent, and warm welcome from The Mayor and the Lady Mayoress. A really good day out.
Regards
Tony

]]> By: Sonia murray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/08/31/at-sandwich/#comment-1011320 Wed, 02 Sep 2015 00:59:15 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=137666#comment-1011320 Thanks for the memories! Gil and I spent happy hours exploring the town and had tea at, yes, I think it was the Sandwich Weavers, in 1955 or ’56, not long after we married. He was in the USAF at Manston – I grew up at Margate – and we loved visiting the ancient surrounding villages and towns. Walks along the cliffs… Lilac and laburnum in the springtime… We were young and poor, but it truly was the best of times!

]]> By: Jean Gaffin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/08/31/at-sandwich/#comment-1010411 Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:23:57 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=137666#comment-1010411 Loved this Sandwich piece – very nostalgic as my late parents lived in Margate for many years and a visit to Sandwich was a “must” over many years. The book mentioned in the post above, Four Thousand Lives, is very interesting and one might want to contrast the welcoming attitude of the population of Sandwich to this large camp for 4,000 Jews with the attitudes to those currently fleeting from current wars.

]]> By: Clare Ungerson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/08/31/at-sandwich/#comment-1010138 Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:05:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=137666#comment-1010138 I am lucky enough to live in Sandwich, just along the street from the Fisher Gate. I am away from Sandwich at the moment and your excellent photos have made me quite homesick! One of the most notable aspects of Sandwich’s more recent history is that in 1939/40 it was home to 4000 German Jewish men who had been rescued, mostly from concentration camps, by the Anglo Jewish community, and placed in an old First WorldWar camp just on the edge of the town. You can read all about it in my book, published in 2014 by the History Press. It’s called ‘Four Thousand Lives: the rescue of German Jewish men to Britain,1939’.

Sandwich, it turns out, has a remarkable and generous history with regard to refugees, first to Huguenots and then to Jews.

]]> By: Peter Harrison https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/08/31/at-sandwich/#comment-1010039 Mon, 31 Aug 2015 11:22:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=137666#comment-1010039 Totally brilliant photos of a clearly fascinating place. Thank you so much: broadens one’s horizons!

]]> By: Linda Granfield https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/08/31/at-sandwich/#comment-1010027 Mon, 31 Aug 2015 10:48:24 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=137666#comment-1010027 The people of Sandwich have been masters of “upcycling” building materials for centuries!

I love the overhang of the weavers’ front door. (Would be nice to see that design used now!)

Lots of photos that make one gasp aloud at the beauty–the church roof interior, the clarity of the water and light…

Glad you had a day away. We all benefitted from your break. Thanks!

]]> By: Valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/08/31/at-sandwich/#comment-1010002 Mon, 31 Aug 2015 09:56:24 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=137666#comment-1010002 Sandwich is a wonderful place, so full of history and with a wonderful atmosphere, which you have captured here really well. Valerie

]]> By: Caroline Murray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/08/31/at-sandwich/#comment-1009994 Mon, 31 Aug 2015 09:41:42 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=137666#comment-1009994 What a beautiful place – and, of course, heavily affected by refugee Huguenots from France and Flanders during their sixteenth-century migration: http://bit.ly/1CpGWAJ

]]> By: Victoria https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/08/31/at-sandwich/#comment-1009985 Mon, 31 Aug 2015 09:32:38 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=137666#comment-1009985 My favourite GA post of the year. Always. The mini summer break Do love Sandwich, very much a hidden gem and was fortunate enough to get lost in those streets during the Easter break this year.

]]> By: leslie holeyman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/08/31/at-sandwich/#comment-1009971 Mon, 31 Aug 2015 08:54:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=137666#comment-1009971 so much more to see. the quayside, the guildhall and museum. the ropewalk and nature reserve. st barts and the brothers alms houses and church. the white windmill. the toll gate and bridge. a place of endless walks and surprises around every corner.

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