Comments on: Joan Lauder, Cat Lady Of Spitalfields https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/08/joan-lauder-cat-lady-of-spitalfields/ 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, 16 Jan 2021 12:28:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Glynis williams https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/08/joan-lauder-cat-lady-of-spitalfields/#comment-1364232 Sat, 16 Jan 2021 12:28:29 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=144715#comment-1364232 She was my auntie loved seeing her feed the stray cats iv inherited her ways iv also feed all stray cats last time I saw her I was young I’m glad she spent her life doing wot she loved doing

]]> By: Diana Buck https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/08/joan-lauder-cat-lady-of-spitalfields/#comment-1101365 Sun, 14 Aug 2016 21:26:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=144715#comment-1101365 We all need someone to love and to love us. Perhaps that was her path.
She certainly looked well in the last photograph. I guess her work was done.
D

]]> By: Patty/NS, Canada https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/08/joan-lauder-cat-lady-of-spitalfields/#comment-1084889 Fri, 08 Apr 2016 17:45:38 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=144715#comment-1084889 I wonder if anyone ever picked up when Joan departed? Continued the feeding ritual along with trapping spay/neutering to help control the forgotten kitties?

]]> By: belle https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/08/joan-lauder-cat-lady-of-spitalfields/#comment-1084887 Fri, 08 Apr 2016 17:36:59 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=144715#comment-1084887 For whatever reason she had found her vocation. Vested of social norms she could just get on with it and focus on what she loved doing. She might very well have been happier than most. She might very well have been burnt at the stake in earlier times. The liberation of a certain kind of cronedom, bless her and her cats.

]]> By: Shawdian https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/08/joan-lauder-cat-lady-of-spitalfields/#comment-1084885 Fri, 08 Apr 2016 17:06:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=144715#comment-1084885 I too Love Cats. But I have a loving husband and home. I think Joan was incredibly lonely and now she has gone, those cats will be have become so hungry after she was no longer able to feed them. 20 years is a long time to be feeding animals on the street. I hope this lady is now at peace and as for the street cats, my heart goes out to them all.

]]> By: Malcolm https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/08/joan-lauder-cat-lady-of-spitalfields/#comment-1084871 Fri, 08 Apr 2016 13:02:07 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=144715#comment-1084871 I remember seeing Joan around the Spitalfields area back in the 80’s when I used to take photographs there. She always seemed to be in her own world, never speaking to anyone, never even looking at anyone. I saw her talking to cats and feeding them in the empty market but I never photographed her. The new Spitalfields, with it’s hipsters, cafes, galleries and boutiques has no place in it’s heart for people like Joan. We move on and leave her memory to fade, along with the market and the old streets but stories like this will serve to remember.

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/08/joan-lauder-cat-lady-of-spitalfields/#comment-1084865 Fri, 08 Apr 2016 11:05:35 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=144715#comment-1084865 A very moving story …

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: John Barrett https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/08/joan-lauder-cat-lady-of-spitalfields/#comment-1084853 Fri, 08 Apr 2016 07:07:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=144715#comment-1084853 We do not know Joan’s background she appears to have lived alone and was lonely. Or was she, her loving family were her cats ‘her darlings’. This lovely blog explains it all about this saintly person, Joan and her extended cat family. Nice one. John

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