Comments on: Beattie Orwell, Centenarian https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/05/beattie-orwell-centenarian-x/ 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, 09 Jun 2022 10:23:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Lord Bouchier Of Shoreditch https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/05/beattie-orwell-centenarian-x/#comment-1466740 Thu, 09 Jun 2022 10:23:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189070#comment-1466740 I believe a new building in Baroness Road was called after this delightful woman. Orwell House was erected in the old car park of Baroness Road E2.

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/05/beattie-orwell-centenarian-x/#comment-1417580 Wed, 06 Oct 2021 21:31:21 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189070#comment-1417580 What a tough old bird. I bow to you Beattie! Sending the very best of birthday wishes too.

]]> By: Andy Strowman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/05/beattie-orwell-centenarian-x/#comment-1417579 Wed, 06 Oct 2021 21:30:38 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189070#comment-1417579 There were many like her in the East End. My Mum, my grandma, and my Auntie Rae were like her.Rosie Bocher too. Betty Gillard another
They had to be. What else could they do?
As Jack Dash’s dad said, “You have to fight for everything. The employers won’t give it to you on a plate.”

Long live the memory of these tough East End people. Made of iron.

]]> By: Susan Elizabeth Martin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/05/beattie-orwell-centenarian-x/#comment-1417342 Wed, 06 Oct 2021 07:38:20 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189070#comment-1417342 What an amazing lady! Such a life so well lived. I wish I knew her!

]]> By: Sue https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/05/beattie-orwell-centenarian-x/#comment-1417206 Tue, 05 Oct 2021 21:55:53 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189070#comment-1417206 What a woman!

]]> By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/05/beattie-orwell-centenarian-x/#comment-1417193 Tue, 05 Oct 2021 21:13:40 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189070#comment-1417193 A terrific story of a life well spent in a generous and kind way. We need more people like Beattie in this day and age. I would never have thought she was 104, what a fabulous and feisty lady. Thank you for sharing your story!

]]> By: Laura Vaughan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/05/beattie-orwell-centenarian-x/#comment-1417078 Tue, 05 Oct 2021 13:05:27 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189070#comment-1417078 Readers of this wonderful interview might be interested in a recording of several people, including Beattie Orwell, who were at the Battle of Cable Street.

This is via the Memory Map of the Jewish East End, created at UCL with the writer Rachel Lichtenstein, whose archive of recordings underpinned the site’s creation.

https://jewisheastendmemorymap.org/?feature_type=point&id=40

]]> By: Adele Lester https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/05/beattie-orwell-centenarian-x/#comment-1417070 Tue, 05 Oct 2021 12:26:10 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189070#comment-1417070 Happy Birthday to Beattie! A true EastEnder.

]]> By: Kelly Holman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/05/beattie-orwell-centenarian-x/#comment-1417034 Tue, 05 Oct 2021 10:07:27 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189070#comment-1417034 Wishing you well Beattie. Thank you for sharing your amazing story.

]]> By: Mark. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/05/beattie-orwell-centenarian-x/#comment-1417025 Tue, 05 Oct 2021 09:29:22 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189070#comment-1417025 Great name, great woman.
If only we had people like Beattie to take on today’s Fascists we wouldn’t be in the mess we have sleepwalked into now!
Live long and prosper, Beattie.
And thankyou.

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