Comments on: So Long, Bruno Besagni https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/17/so-long-bruno-besagni/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 17 May 2017 22:24:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Cathy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/17/so-long-bruno-besagni/#comment-1150059 Wed, 17 May 2017 22:24:11 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157620#comment-1150059 Thank you

Precious

What a beautiful artist

Rest In Peace Bruno Besagni

]]> By: Gary Arber https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/17/so-long-bruno-besagni/#comment-1150032 Wed, 17 May 2017 17:08:53 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157620#comment-1150032 It was terrible the way that Italians were imprisoned during the war. As a boy I used to visit my grandparents in our shop in Roman Road . Next door was George Gargano who ran a cafe and sold ice cream,, he was a lovely man, I called him Uncle George and always had some ice cream from him. He was interned during the war and died there of a broken heart.
Gary

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/17/so-long-bruno-besagni/#comment-1150017 Wed, 17 May 2017 14:10:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157620#comment-1150017 A wonderful Life Story of two wonderful People!

Olive & Bruno Besagni — R.I.P.

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/17/so-long-bruno-besagni/#comment-1149993 Wed, 17 May 2017 10:55:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157620#comment-1149993 Goodness, I feel that I KNOW Olive and Bruno after these two evocative posts. All I can say is –
I am thrilled that two such simpatico people found one another and spent a whole lifetime together. Brava and Bravo!

I am always so thrilled to explore the vintage photos and other personal ephemera that you highlight, here on the blog. The fragile news clippings, brittle and weathered, remind us of
earnest long-ago scrapbooks; stored in closets or cardboard cartons. But, oh my, the photo of
“the boys of Back Hill” — Now that would be a photo that would have a place of honor on my mantle. Never out of sight, always good for provoking one more smile.

]]> By: Mark s https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/17/so-long-bruno-besagni/#comment-1149985 Wed, 17 May 2017 08:12:20 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157620#comment-1149985 What a wonderful, human story- provides much to reflect on….

]]> By: James Harris https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/17/so-long-bruno-besagni/#comment-1149974 Wed, 17 May 2017 05:55:08 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157620#comment-1149974 Thank you for recounting the story of Bruno Besagni and his wife Olive. Lives lived with love and lustre.

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