Comments on: Remembering Gavin Stamp

By: Jamara A Newell

Jamara A Newell — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 23:54:57 +0000

I came across Mr. Stamp rather superficially, reading about the Young Fogey Movement, but after diving into his work I gained a great respect and admiration for him and much more importantly a lot of knowledge.
RIP to him we were blessed to have had him for the time we did.

By: Dr Ruth Richardson

Dr Ruth Richardson — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 12:13:42 +0000

THANK-YOU so much, Gillian, for writing your tribute to Gavin Stamp, which I’ve just seen.

He was a really stalwart helper during the fight to preserve the Cleveland Street Workhouse – he visited and understood the serial phases of architectural development of the site from the 18th century to the 21st which embodied also the history of the healthcare of the poor.

His book on the great monument to the Missing is a wonder.

I last saw him at a party for James Stevens Curl, and he had on a lovely little black vevet smoking-cap, and of course I hoped it would be temporary, too.’

By: Ellen N Moody

Ellen N Moody — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 21:14:33 +0000

How moving. Thank you for this. Ms Tindall’s books are themselves treasures. Leeds City is one of those ruined by highways. I lived there between 1967 and 1971.

By: Ellen N Moody

Ellen N Moody — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 21:14:12 +0000

How moving. Thank you for this. Ms Tindall’s books are themselves treasures. Leeds City is one of those ruined by highways. I lived there between 1967 and 1971. El

By: David Beevers

David Beevers — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 17:31:13 +0000

Gavin was indeed a great man, fearless and tireless in all the causes in which he fought. On a lighter note, he once told me that his favourite film was Carry on up the Khyber. Amongst his many interests was a fascination with Garibaldi.
He is much missed.
David Beevers

By: Lew Tassell

Lew Tassell — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 01:22:08 +0000

Lovely words Gillian, I look forward to the book and exhibition

By: Jack Montrose

Jack Montrose — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 20:02:23 +0000

Thank you for this tribute. Gavin Stamp was one of the Young Fogeys of the early 1980s and served as a great inspiration to me all the way across the Atlantic in the suburban United States.

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 14:24:59 +0000

Thank you Gillian for keeping alive the memory of this wonderful man who was taken far too early. The world is in even greater need of Gavin Stamps.

By: Esther Wilkinson Rank

Esther Wilkinson Rank — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 12:02:31 +0000

Thank you, Gillian Tindall, for your lovely tribute to Gavin Stamp.

By: Bernie

Bernie — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 10:19:10 +0000

EustonArch: I assume that there is nowhere in the approaches to the station that it could be reconstructed and that leads too the obvious next question– is there not somewhere in central London that it could be placed? One of the Royal parks, perhaps? I would contribute my widow’s mite to the cost.