Comments on: Save The Chamber St Wall

By: Betty Simmons

Betty Simmons — Fri, 22 May 2020 18:13:27 +0000

I have stood at places where death and tragedy happened. A pockmarked wall in the town of Esteli, Nicaragua, where air fire was brought down, by Somosa, on his own town. There was the day I visited the San Francisco Zoo and was overwhelmed by the feeling of grief at that one spot, learning later it was the zoo cage home of Tatiana, the magnificent 300-lb tiger shot and killed because two teens taunted her and she pursued them. I stood with others at the sites of brutal killing and bombings in both Ireland and Germany, including Bergen Belsen. I walked on the land of the Blackfeet in Montana, where buffalo were slaughtered to cause starvation of the native people. My feet are on the same ground as those victims, I am breathing the same air, knowing it could have been me facing those gun barrels or hearing the mortar fire does something to me that standing in front of a memorial marker can never do. Time disappears. For those minutes I am present at that event, I am standing in the shoes of the people, and looking into the eyes of the tiger, who were so brutally killed. For those minutes I feel their agony. A bit of ground on this planet has become sacred. The earth remembers.

By: Barbara Hirst

Barbara Hirst — Sat, 22 Feb 2020 01:14:37 +0000

The proposed extension is ugly….whether or not the wall is kept.

By: Chris Ashby

Chris Ashby — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 22:45:07 +0000

I’ve just objected to this short sighted proposal.
Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
All the best.
Chris.

By: RM Butten

RM Butten — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 22:32:52 +0000

As usual killing our history for the sake of developers, councillors with no brains and for money.
All concerned should be ashamed to neglect our history.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 20:51:03 +0000

My mother used to tell us about the terrible bombings and shelling that went on near where she worked during the war and when I became a police officer and worked in the same area and was the same age she had been in the war we walked together to see the damage that had been done to that particular piece of wall. I have grandchildren and they will know of it only by a photo.
There are people trying to save pieces of an old wooden bridge further down the river and yet this solid bit of wall will be tossed away.
No person with any soul even know London history.
Why are we putting money towards the Parthenon in Athens? After all that is old and falling down! Save our history – at least house it within the structure.
A hotel by last section before the railway lines – better they make sure the windows of the hotel rooms are too thick to break for “Death by suicide train!”
People with no history or life will never stop demolishing the old, a sad comment on so called Historic England. Only there to demolish.

By: paul loftenp

paul loftenp — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 19:40:50 +0000

Save that wall! It is a brick wall that is a stark reminder of the horror of war. This wall tells you the truth and is there to prevent you from entering a world of delusions.

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 19:22:59 +0000

Letter sent. Thank you, GA, for bringing this to our attention

By: David Green

David Green — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:08:08 +0000

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, that is one hideous building. And now they want to double it? They should be pilloried. Why not make the wall an actual feature? The Mayor of London should have the authority to overturn idiotic decisions like this. Historic England should be ashamed of themselves. Is their Board of Directors populated with ‘developers’?

By: Helen Breen

Helen Breen — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 12:26:27 +0000

Greetings from Boston,

GA, wishing you the best in trying to preserve the deeply scarred Chamber St. wall from oblivion. From reading your posts over the years, we are reminded of how indelible is the memory of the extensive damage to the area during WWII. I remember that great photo of Winston and Clementine inspecting the destruction in the East End after a bombing, giving its residents hope.

Carry on in this endeavor!

By: Peter Huddart

Peter Huddart — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 12:20:05 +0000

Email sent. Mr Blundell email not accepted so sent to Post, fao Mr Blundell