https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/01/30/at-ben-trumans-house-o/ 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, 02 Feb 2023 17:32:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/01/30/at-ben-trumans-house-o/#comment-1500225 Thu, 02 Feb 2023 17:32:47 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=194608#comment-1500225 Please reassure us that it’s not going to become a casualty to the developers!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/01/30/at-ben-trumans-house-o/#comment-1500076 Wed, 01 Feb 2023 13:14:14 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=194608#comment-1500076 It looks like no work has been done on this for the past 6 years. I was hoping to see what they’d done with it and how it had cleaned up.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/01/30/at-ben-trumans-house-o/#comment-1500011 Tue, 31 Jan 2023 19:15:25 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=194608#comment-1500011 Thanks again! Such beauty. Very wabi-sabi, as the Japanese so rightly say. The entropic touch of time, so poetic!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/01/30/at-ben-trumans-house-o/#comment-1500010 Tue, 31 Jan 2023 18:24:12 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=194608#comment-1500010 A lovely old house. I have visited the house on a few occasions and have the honour of slipping down the rickety staircase and nearly falling through the whole in the floor! No worries… it was an honour to have been in such a well kept and historic building. May it remain as long as it is and keep us old house lovers for generations to come.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/01/30/at-ben-trumans-house-o/#comment-1499959 Tue, 31 Jan 2023 06:26:48 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=194608#comment-1499959 Oh, how I would love to own and live in one of those houses!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/01/30/at-ben-trumans-house-o/#comment-1499910 Mon, 30 Jan 2023 15:18:41 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=194608#comment-1499910 Those worn wooden stair treads get me every time.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/01/30/at-ben-trumans-house-o/#comment-1499906 Mon, 30 Jan 2023 13:30:00 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=194608#comment-1499906 I wouldn’t worry too much Christine, this house pops up in TV dramas etc *all* the time so I imagine it’s a pretty sound investment commercially for the current owners. I too hope that that continues and its features and patina are preserved.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/01/30/at-ben-trumans-house-o/#comment-1499905 Mon, 30 Jan 2023 13:12:46 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=194608#comment-1499905 Fabulous. I hope the new owners will care for the house tenderly. If the chimneys are in the same shape as everything else, I would not light a fire in any fireplace as sparks can fly out between cracks in the mortar and start a fire.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/01/30/at-ben-trumans-house-o/#comment-1499904 Mon, 30 Jan 2023 12:13:53 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=194608#comment-1499904 Wonder what will happen now to this beautiful old building?

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/01/30/at-ben-trumans-house-o/#comment-1499903 Mon, 30 Jan 2023 12:11:36 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=194608#comment-1499903 Fabulous photos of a beautiful house, that looks like it has retained alot of it original features and charm.

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