Comments on: The Departure Of Arthur Beale https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/19/the-departure-of-arthur-beale/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 15 Aug 2024 23:09:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Jody https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/19/the-departure-of-arthur-beale/#comment-1607593 Thu, 15 Aug 2024 23:09:01 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187122#comment-1607593 It’s been empty ever since it closed. I’m forlorn, there’s something so sad about passing it daily, knowing it should simply still be there. Nobody gained, we all lost. X

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/19/the-departure-of-arthur-beale/#comment-1528499 Mon, 20 Nov 2023 20:32:31 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187122#comment-1528499 Thanks for the post. Great read.
Does anyone have any information about Arthur Beale the person? He is a relative and I would love to find out more about him.

]]> By: JamesBuchanan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/19/the-departure-of-arthur-beale/#comment-1379365 Thu, 20 May 2021 09:24:40 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187122#comment-1379365 A couple of years ago I was on my cousins boat on the way to South Dock. Approaching Gravesend with the tide turning we decided sit out the tide but we hadn’t booked a mooring in advance. Alastair happened to be on the next mooring, and recognising a loyal customer persuaded the Harbour Master to allow us to use the spare mooring! We were then invited on board Alastair’s beautifully varnished 26ft yacht for supper. The internet has kept us going throughout this pandemic but, “the times are a changing”.

]]> By: Jo Rogers https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/19/the-departure-of-arthur-beale/#comment-1379272 Wed, 19 May 2021 22:00:14 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187122#comment-1379272 Surely there is some well-off yacht owner with some spare funds who could take on the rent for this brilliant company? Beales is every bit as deserving as many of the Charities which entrepreneurs subsidise! The loss of this business in this location is tragic.

]]> By: Sue https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/19/the-departure-of-arthur-beale/#comment-1379252 Wed, 19 May 2021 19:20:17 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187122#comment-1379252 What will happen to all these lovely items, and the old fixtures, the actual building, the historical items and fittings? It’s a beautiful place, with a beautiful history! The photos give such a wonderful feel. I agree with those who have posted that “real life” is disappearing. Everything is so sterile, robotic, sans personality or individuality, dull! Where’s the texture, the heart, the throbbing pulse of innovation and dynamism and purity of purpose and practicality? The London I knew in the 1970’s oh! I suppose every generation feels this way as the years past, all they knew changing/being replaced….

I spend more time in my thoughts of the past than I do of this present day, there is so little that seems to really engage the heart and mind with its charm. I’m thankful to escape into this blog and the images, stories, and whimsy/history that is shared!

]]> By: Sonia Murray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/19/the-departure-of-arthur-beale/#comment-1379222 Wed, 19 May 2021 14:42:42 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187122#comment-1379222 The loss of so many small specialty shops is tragic. After 400 years! The landlord is probably facing high taxation, planned from on high to force sale to build yet another office tower or boutique hotel. My seafaring ancestors who sailed from the Pool in the 1770’s may have purchased supplies at this ship chandlers. I do hope Beale’s account books will be given to the National Archives and made available to researchers, not just thrown away.

]]> By: Lizebeth https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/19/the-departure-of-arthur-beale/#comment-1379221 Wed, 19 May 2021 14:41:49 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187122#comment-1379221 This shop, sadly, joins the ranks of Stanford’s, the Dover Bookshop (does anyone remember them in Seven Dials?) and too many others forced out by greedy landlords. I live in the area and our only Supermarket, a Tesco Metro, last heard was paying in excess of £10,000 monthly rent. Why has the legislature not addressed this problem? There are only a few large landholders in this part of London and they all have more money than they require, without forcing their tenants to depart. As others have said, soon there will be nothing left in the West
End but Hotels and Chain Coffee Shops — and will even these survive Covid?

]]> By: Richard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/19/the-departure-of-arthur-beale/#comment-1379216 Wed, 19 May 2021 13:49:41 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187122#comment-1379216 One of the last survivors. I guess it’s only a loss to the current generation. Does anyone remember Withers of Wardour St, the violin shop.

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/19/the-departure-of-arthur-beale/#comment-1379209 Wed, 19 May 2021 12:40:52 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187122#comment-1379209 Greetings from Boston,

GA, what an interesting enterprise – so “ship shape” that it looks like a museum. So sad to lose another real business – same on this side of the pond.

Great photos…

]]> By: David Green https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/19/the-departure-of-arthur-beale/#comment-1379205 Wed, 19 May 2021 12:20:08 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187122#comment-1379205 Shocking that a city like London does not have an Office of Intangible Cultural Heritage with the legislative authority to stop these avaricious bloody landlords from robbing people of their living and the country of its’ culture and history. Disgusting. I happened onto Arthur Beale’s entirely by chance last time I visited London, and being somewhat nautically obsessed, was awed with the place. Shame.

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