Comments on: Trinity Green Almshouses Are Saved

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 18:17:45 +0000

My 3 x Gt Grandfather had a Wheelwrights shop in Sun Tavern Fields, near Cable Street E1. there was also Captain Carrs Almshouses here. Am trying to find anything about them.

By: Clera Rodrigues

Clera Rodrigues — Fri, 21 May 2021 19:29:50 +0000

Who made the artwork ‘Statue of Captain Richard Naples’ and in what year?

By: Clera Rodrigues

Clera Rodrigues — Fri, 21 May 2021 19:16:51 +0000

What is the name of the artist that made the artwork ‘Statue of Captain Richard Naples’?

By: Maureen Cocklin (nee Buckle)

Maureen Cocklin (nee Buckle) — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 12:02:43 +0000

I’m new to this site hence my belated comments. I walked passed trinity cottages every week with my grandmother and always wished I lived in one of them. So pleased that the monstrosity isn’t going to dominate the skyline. We have enough of them in London.

By: pauline taylor

pauline taylor — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 17:31:25 +0000

Thank you to everyone who fought so hard to secure this wonderful result, and thank you to Sadiq Khan for being an honourable man, unlike his predecessor.

Very well done GA.

By: Jude

Jude — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 15:34:46 +0000

Small victory with a huge consequence. Soooo happy!

By: Jackie Keith

Jackie Keith — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 13:14:03 +0000

So happy to hear the news, thanks in no small part to you, Gentle Author, for highlighting these campaigns. Praise be that we have a Mayor putting the interests of Londoners first rather than big business – here’s to a second term in office!

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 11:17:33 +0000

A notable victory indeed, and not before time. The rape and wanton destruction of London in recent years has been on an unparalleled scale. The demolition of historic buildings and streets – aided and abetted by various appalling Mayors, Home Secretaries and the City of London planning department has all but erased the city I have known and lived in all my life. So this news is some small comfort. However…the cynic in me says Sainsbury’s isn’t going to give up just yet.
I suppose I should extend a small nod of appreciation – which goes against my better judgement and experience – in the direction of our latest Mayor, Sadiq Khan, for at least putting the values and concerns of a community of people before those of a wealthy family of grocers.
But the cynic in me (again) is mindful that we have an election hoving into view any minute now…

A bigger thank you is in order to the Gentle Author and his continued efforts to keep fighting for our city, its people and its history.

By: Annabel Mallia

Annabel Mallia — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 09:44:05 +0000

So glad to hear this news. Welll done for campaigning and using your page to highlight these things. Heritage needs a champion like you!

By: Richard S

Richard S — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 09:22:10 +0000

Commendable result … and well played the Spitalfields Life community, adroitly assisted by Dan Cruickshank, to boot.
Whilst I may now live in parochial Wiltshire, my life was honed by the bump and grind of London for over 55 years – and I watch, with dismay, as the essence of what makes London great is increasingly gnawed away – by rodents of quite a different variety.
Here – amidst the county downlands, valleys and market towns – erosion of tangible and intangible assets similarly proceeds apace … and I’ve just lost a planning battle to preserve a redoubtable C18th Mill Factory from fast-track development into mean and superfluous apartments that dishonour the historic locale and robust industrial architecture.
Would that the spirit, community and efficacy of ‘Spitalfields Life’ could delve deeper into the secluded corners of this fair land – and stretch out to combat insensitive ‘advancement’ for the sake of advancement alone.
Well done to you all.