Comments on: So Long, Mannie Blankett https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/11/so-long-mannie-blankett/ 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, 08 Feb 2021 16:58:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Gwyneth Owen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/11/so-long-mannie-blankett/#comment-1367459 Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:58:13 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184895#comment-1367459 I remember Manny from my days in CND and the committee of 100. A wonderful man and a genttle soul. I send him Love.
Gwyn xxx

]]> By: Amanda https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/11/so-long-mannie-blankett/#comment-1363977 Mon, 11 Jan 2021 22:29:20 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184895#comment-1363977 Mannie appeared contented with all that happened life and that has to be the best life anyone could wish for. RIP.

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The Hot Salt Beef Boys were amazing – thanks for filming their relaxing banter.

]]> By: Nurjahan Julie Begum https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/11/so-long-mannie-blankett/#comment-1363959 Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:08:55 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184895#comment-1363959 I heard about Mannie’s death today from Toynbee Hall. It was a pleasure meeting such a gentleman during the Aldgate East My Neighborhood project.

]]> By: Penny Gardner https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/11/so-long-mannie-blankett/#comment-1363956 Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:50:35 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184895#comment-1363956 Nice cardigan.

]]> By: Adele Lester https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/11/so-long-mannie-blankett/#comment-1363953 Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:16:53 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184895#comment-1363953 Rest In Peace Manny. Imagine you are hanging out with your Middlesex Street cronies now – having a cuppa and a good chinwag.

]]> By: aubrey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/11/so-long-mannie-blankett/#comment-1363949 Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:46:55 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184895#comment-1363949 I hadn’t seen this 4 year old film before. I watched the whole show and was absolutely transfixed. Smoked salmon biegels. Marvellous!

]]> By: Sarah Ainslie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/11/so-long-mannie-blankett/#comment-1363948 Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:33:18 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184895#comment-1363948 He was such a lovely fascinating man with a twinkle in his eye, a real privilege to have known him.

]]> By: Lewis Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/11/so-long-mannie-blankett/#comment-1363946 Mon, 11 Jan 2021 08:47:44 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184895#comment-1363946 Having been looking into the early history of the Pavilion Theatre, I’m delighted to read these accounts of visits in its final years. It had barely occurred to me that an attendee would have lived almost to the present.

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/11/so-long-mannie-blankett/#comment-1363945 Mon, 11 Jan 2021 08:33:38 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184895#comment-1363945 Mr Mannie Blankett (1917-2021) — R.I.P.

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Becky https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/11/so-long-mannie-blankett/#comment-1363940 Mon, 11 Jan 2021 07:37:41 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184895#comment-1363940 Such a wonderful, gentle, kind man. I will miss Mannie’s laugh and smile very much.

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