Comments on: So Long, Stan Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/02/so-long-stan-jones/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 03 Jun 2022 12:14:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: John Venes https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/02/so-long-stan-jones/#comment-1466067 Fri, 03 Jun 2022 12:14:14 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191859#comment-1466067 Just an ordinary bloke from the East End.
Getting on with life.
A vanishing breed

]]> By: Steve Shinners https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/02/so-long-stan-jones/#comment-1466023 Fri, 03 Jun 2022 00:33:48 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191859#comment-1466023 What a lovely story you wrote about Stan, his parents their house in mile end and their lives there. Some geat photos too.

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/02/so-long-stan-jones/#comment-1466004 Thu, 02 Jun 2022 20:26:56 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191859#comment-1466004 Tamara Barklem, I am so pleased to know you’re honouring Stan. He sounds like he was an amazing man, lonely perhaps as he mentioned, but I trust not unhappy. A gentle soul. May he rest in peace.

]]> By: Jonathan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/02/so-long-stan-jones/#comment-1465986 Thu, 02 Jun 2022 17:36:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191859#comment-1465986 The photograph with Attlee – the casket on the table contains a ‘Freedom of the Borough of Stepney ‘ certificate, so this is either for the granting of Freedom to Attlee in December 1948 or the granting of Freedom to John Charles Lawder in March 1950 (at which Attlee made a speech). Stan’s dad was the mace bearer on both occasions. The location would have been the People’s Palace in Mile End Road.

]]> By: Andy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/02/so-long-stan-jones/#comment-1465967 Thu, 02 Jun 2022 13:45:45 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191859#comment-1465967 A stupendous article evoking peace and tranquillity.
It has in it the good, the best, of the love, that gets me sentimental about the East Enders.
Thank you all who made it happen.

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/02/so-long-stan-jones/#comment-1465959 Thu, 02 Jun 2022 12:32:42 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191859#comment-1465959 Greetings from Boston,

GA, what a great story to feature today about Stan Jones on the day of Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee. Really love the pics of Stan’s house decorated for her Coronation in 1953 and her later Diamond Jubilee. The house remains in excellent shape.

God save the Queen.

]]> By: Tamara Barklem https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/02/so-long-stan-jones/#comment-1465957 Thu, 02 Jun 2022 12:09:09 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191859#comment-1465957 ]]> Hi Mary! I’m Tamara, Stan’s neighbour on Lichfield Road. We’re having a street party on Saturday June 4th and partly it’s a tribute to him. He really enjoyed the Jubilee celebrations going back a long way and as an amateur photographer, he took photos of them and of community life in general. Stan’s house remains empty but his family have kindly allowed us to put up his bunting and display some of his photos inside his house from 1-3 pm on Saturday. Feel free to come and have a look. Photos that we take of the day will be added to a permanent collection of his pictures at the Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives. We’re remembering him. ❤️

]]> By: achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/02/so-long-stan-jones/#comment-1465939 Thu, 02 Jun 2022 08:36:57 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191859#comment-1465939 Mr STAN JONES (1929-2021) — R.I.P.

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Mary https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/02/so-long-stan-jones/#comment-1465936 Thu, 02 Jun 2022 07:59:11 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191859#comment-1465936 So sorry to hear of the passing of another true East Ender. I know if Stan was still with us he would have decorated his house this week in the manner it has on previous royal occasions. It would be marvellous if, whoever is now living in Stan’s house, were to carry on the tradition.

]]> By: Susan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/02/so-long-stan-jones/#comment-1465935 Thu, 02 Jun 2022 07:54:21 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191859#comment-1465935 This is such a lovely tribute. “Small” lives like his are often quite full, in their own way.

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