Comments on: A Walk With Mick Taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/01/a-walk-with-mick-taylor/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Tue, 03 Oct 2017 18:44:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Jeff Spires https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/01/a-walk-with-mick-taylor/#comment-1171836 Tue, 03 Oct 2017 18:44:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160598#comment-1171836 Really caught/kept this kid’s attention. Great character profile.

]]> By: RAYMOND JULIAN-HUXLEY https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/01/a-walk-with-mick-taylor/#comment-1171543 Mon, 02 Oct 2017 12:03:08 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160598#comment-1171543 It must have been about ten years ago that I first happened across Mick Taylor on one of my many visits to the bagel shop for a lovely hot cup of steaming tea and a salmon and cream cheese bagel
There he was sitting on a chair outside the famous bagel bake brick lane
We immediately clicked as we both dressed in a eccentric manor
His like is unlikely to grace this earth again
It a shame that people like him are not in charge of the earth and it politics
I always on departing him after about an hour’s chat
Would press a £5 pound note into his hand
And sometimes I would post some money to his address
I like many will miss this lovely caricature
Rest in peace Mick I will miss you lots !!

]]> By: Christine Gingerich https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/01/a-walk-with-mick-taylor/#comment-1171397 Sun, 01 Oct 2017 18:20:48 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160598#comment-1171397 Such a presence. I wish I had met him.

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/01/a-walk-with-mick-taylor/#comment-1171334 Sun, 01 Oct 2017 10:52:06 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160598#comment-1171334 Greetings from Boston,

GA, Mick sounds like a colorful character who really loved his pied-a-terre.

Interesting –
“…Yet before he started work Mick had to clock in and enjoy the two or three pints of maturing brown ale with his workmates, as was the custom in the brewery.” Wow, that would never fly today.

I also learned a new word – “A FIRKIN is a unit of measure and also the size of a particular kind of keg used for cask conditioning; one quarter of a barrel, 72 pints, 9 imperial gallons. Firkins can be wooden or metal.”

Mick, RIP.

]]> By: John Barrett https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/01/a-walk-with-mick-taylor/#comment-1171300 Sun, 01 Oct 2017 07:21:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160598#comment-1171300 A brilliant expose and walkabout by GA and principle Mick no stone was left unturned walk wise. l do like these one-off characters no upfront nonsense with them, rock solid I say – keep walking Mick T. John a Bus Pass Poet

]]> By: David Cantor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/01/a-walk-with-mick-taylor/#comment-1171298 Sun, 01 Oct 2017 07:11:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160598#comment-1171298 For reasons I cannot explain, it feels like a member of my family has passed away. I first met Mick some years ago and have been taking his photograph ever since. More often than not though we just had a catch up and exchanged our family histories. I shall never forget the twinkle in his eyes or the incredibly strong handshake. RIP Mick, you will not be forgotten.

David

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