Comments on: Alison Light’s Spitalfields https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/02/23/alison-lights-spitalfields/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 24 Feb 2020 09:37:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Richard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/02/23/alison-lights-spitalfields/#comment-1330913 Mon, 24 Feb 2020 09:37:51 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179909#comment-1330913 Thanks

]]> By: Ros https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/02/23/alison-lights-spitalfields/#comment-1330876 Sun, 23 Feb 2020 22:26:46 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179909#comment-1330876 A thoughtful and reflective piece that I read with interest and pleasure.

]]> By: Suresh Singh https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/02/23/alison-lights-spitalfields/#comment-1330861 Sun, 23 Feb 2020 18:09:48 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179909#comment-1330861 I bow down to Alison. I visited the Bishops Gate Institute this Friday and I bowed to the wonderful Raphael Samuel to whom DIRT was not a problem, from deep within my Sikh Heart

Suresh Singh

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/02/23/alison-lights-spitalfields/#comment-1330847 Sun, 23 Feb 2020 13:48:32 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179909#comment-1330847 It must have been a fascinating time to live in Spitalfields.

I loved the phrase “noisy with gesticulating historians engaged in intense debate”… I can think of at least one wildly gesticulating historian still living in Elder Street!

]]> By: John McVey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/02/23/alison-lights-spitalfields/#comment-1330846 Sun, 23 Feb 2020 13:46:59 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179909#comment-1330846 “oscillating between keeping things and letting them go” —
so much nuance and complexity in this piece, about conservatism, the idea of “just passing through…”
thank you.

]]> By: Mathilde Grange https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/02/23/alison-lights-spitalfields/#comment-1330837 Sun, 23 Feb 2020 11:01:14 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179909#comment-1330837 Wonderful, I loved this piece. Thanks.

]]> By: Moyra Peralta https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/02/23/alison-lights-spitalfields/#comment-1330833 Sun, 23 Feb 2020 10:14:32 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179909#comment-1330833 What a beautiful piece! Spitalfields Life at its very very best…

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