Comments on: Where The White Chapel Once Stood https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/05/27/where-the-white-chapel-once-stood-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 Mon, 30 May 2022 17:49:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Colin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/05/27/where-the-white-chapel-once-stood-x/#comment-1465575 Mon, 30 May 2022 17:49:38 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191828#comment-1465575 Thank you for an enjoyable article, one correction though regarding your statement “Sir John Cass, founder of the Stepney school that still bears his name” is no longer true.

I believe you’re referring to the Sir John Cass Redcoat School. If so, after public recognition of Cass’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, the school was renamed Stepney All Saints School in 2020.

https://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/education/redcoat-school-to-become-stepney-all-saints-3669238

]]> By: Sonia Murray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/05/27/where-the-white-chapel-once-stood-x/#comment-1465195 Fri, 27 May 2022 16:50:46 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191828#comment-1465195 Thank you for another wonderful article, G.A.! I want to come to see the Georgian Soup Tureen tomb, and the area near the docks where my ancestors lived. It’s remarkable that the tomb survived when so much around it has been thoughtlessly destroyed.

]]> By: Pauline Taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/05/27/where-the-white-chapel-once-stood-x/#comment-1465153 Fri, 27 May 2022 10:13:50 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191828#comment-1465153 Thank you Gillian Tindall, these pieces about London history are fascinating especially to someone like me who has a branch of her family who owned so much property there that she can still claim a pension from a bequest to ‘his poor relatives’ by John West, city scrivener and friend to Samuel Pepys. The income from the property still brings in a fantastic amount of money which is administered by Christ’s Hospital in Horsham but none of it was in Whitechapel so far as I am aware, I think it was all in the City.

]]> By: Lesley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/05/27/where-the-white-chapel-once-stood-x/#comment-1465143 Fri, 27 May 2022 08:16:13 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191828#comment-1465143 My 5x great grandfather, John Rayden was convicted of stealing (“but not sacriligiously”) the lead from the roof of St Mary Whitechapel on December 4th 1805. All his children had been baptised there. He was transported for seven years but actually spent all that time in the hulks at Portsmouth.

]]> By: Andy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/05/27/where-the-white-chapel-once-stood-x/#comment-1465137 Fri, 27 May 2022 07:37:23 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191828#comment-1465137 This is an incredible article. The photos mske me realise so much.
I wanted to say I was told Pastor Niemoller came tobwork in a Lutheran church near Altab Ali Park.

Pastor Niemoller is famous.

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