Comments on: Mavis Bullwinkle, Secretary

By: Dave Stevenson

Dave Stevenson — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 00:54:17 +0000

Sorry her Grandmother Louisa was my mom’s aunt.

thx

By: Dave Stevenson

Dave Stevenson — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 00:52:08 +0000

I would love to contact Mavis, my mom was Ivy Irene her Mom Louisa was her Aunt. My mom’s dad Alfred, was killed by a lorry in the 20’s in London. Can you pass this on.

thx

Dave

By: Jeannette

Jeannette — Wed, 01 May 2019 05:43:41 +0000

How delightful to look Miss Mavis and all her people in the eye. I hope she will tell you more about life for so many years in the Albert Family Dwellings. Thanks to both of you.

By: Jill Wilson

Jill Wilson — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 09:43:19 +0000

Yes – a remarkable lady indeed who I had the pleasure of meeting last year.

And great to see all the added family photos and memorabilia (hurrah for the blog format which allows for all the extra visuals!)

By: Paul Huckett

Paul Huckett — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 23:00:20 +0000

A wonderful story . The surname Bullwinkle is shared with a much loved Australian war hero, the late Vivian Bullwinkel, albeit a slight difference in spelling . Her story is extraordinary in that she survived a massacre in WW11 and then internment by the Japanese Imperial Army . Her story is worth a read https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P10676383

By: Suresh Singh

Suresh Singh — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 19:16:45 +0000

What a beautiful women of elegance and moral purpose.

I adored Mavis’s beautiful hats on a Sunday school visit, she made me feel safe and loved.

I with deep sikhism bow down to Mavis Bullwinkle.

She shone in Hanbury Hall amongst the grime. A true Dorcas Guild.

She is true in my memoir Suresh Singh

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 12:54:29 +0000

Mavis is a marvel. May I say she is an elegant version of True Grit? Her story, combined with
this remarkable cache of intimate family documentation is a treasure.

This post is a keeper, and deserves more than one reading and one look. I will return to this later this evening, with a glass of wine in hand. Saluting YOU, Mabel!

Onward and upward.

By: Paul Loften

Paul Loften — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 12:30:29 +0000

My dad used to take me to visit his mother who was then living in a tiny house in Raven Row just behind the London Hospital . The house was a Victorian hovel with an outside toilet situated in concreted back yard about 10 sq ft. It was earmarked for demolition and she must have been the oldest resident there. She would talk about the times when the street was full of Jewish immigrant families and the hot biegel cart would come clattering down the street and tell me about the assortment of characters that lived there . I can still picture the narrow street. On the corner of the street leading up Whitechapel road was the site was a brewery with a massive black brick built chimney that towered over the area. I think the white letters Truman ran down it .although I cant be 100 pecent sure. The last time I saw it ,and that was years ago, there was a Post Office depot there with many parked red vans. The chimney had gone.
Thank you both Gentle Author and Mavis Bullwinkle for the wonderful story . Mavis ,you are still lovely as ever. I cant speak for the Gentle Author though !

By: Anders Bellis

Anders Bellis — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 12:20:03 +0000

Stories like this one are those that interest me the very most on Spitalfields Life, stories of the kind one finds under the heading Human Life.

It is so easy for so many, in this day and age of celebrity hysteria, to be more or less uninterested in “ordinary” people, people like Mavis Bullwinkle … who are anything but ordinary! The most interesting life stories are not those of rock stars or famous actors or billionaire businessmen/businesswomen, but the life stories of so called “ordinary” people who live and whose families have lived not cut off from everyday society – who have not, so to speak, lived “sheltered” lives.

Becfause they really have interesting and fascinating stories to tell us.

Of this Mavis Bullwinkle is a fine example indeed. And one can not but also mention that she is a lady who looks elegantly stylish.

By: Pauline Taylor

Pauline Taylor — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 12:15:31 +0000

Thank you GA and Mavis Bullwinkle, I really enjoyed reading this and the family photographs are great, I wish I had more photos like that of my grandfather’s family as he was true cockney born in a building in Whitecross Street, but none have survived even supposing that any were ever taken. I have never been able to discover where my grandfather lived between his mother’s death, when he was seven, and the 1891 census, but he was probably sent away to school. I shall never know I fear as the 1881 census has no record of him which I find very sad. But thank you GA for stories like this as they help me to understand what life was like in the City of London in the late Victorian and early 20th century days. How happy and smart Mavis looks and long may that continue.