Comments on: Stan Jones & The Coronation https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/05/05/stan-jones-the-coronation/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 06 May 2023 10:40:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Peter https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/05/05/stan-jones-the-coronation/#comment-1508764 Sat, 06 May 2023 10:40:36 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195611#comment-1508764 Makes me want to cry. What street was his house on?

]]> By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/05/05/stan-jones-the-coronation/#comment-1508730 Sat, 06 May 2023 00:04:00 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195611#comment-1508730 I am so looking forward to The Coronation. In 1953 my 2 brothers were 8 and 3 and my mum was expecting my sister who was born in July. I didn’t come along until 1961.

Sadly, The Queen passed away when I was staying at my house in Scotland last year, so it was a very subdued holiday. I could not pay my respects in Edinburgh as the queue was over 6 hours long and I had a very early morning flight to catch.

I have my bunting up in Switzerland and iced fairy cakes baked in red, white and blue patterned cases.

God Save The King!

]]> By: David Hall https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/05/05/stan-jones-the-coronation/#comment-1508691 Fri, 05 May 2023 12:17:43 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195611#comment-1508691 Fascinating glimpse of a life , thank you .

]]> By: Peter H https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/05/05/stan-jones-the-coronation/#comment-1508681 Fri, 05 May 2023 09:35:13 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195611#comment-1508681 So enjoyed reading this. Thank you.

]]> By: achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/05/05/stan-jones-the-coronation/#comment-1508673 Fri, 05 May 2023 08:17:13 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195611#comment-1508673 Tomorrow is the great day! The United Kingdom will have a new King. It’s an absolutely thrilling historical event — 70 years after the last one. It’s so sad that my father won’t be around to see it — he was born in 1926 to the Queen. And he met the Queen once in Leipzig when she visited Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. And his phrase after that was always: “I recognised her immediately, but she didn’t recognise me.” (My father passed away peacefully at home two years ago at the age of 94.)

Tomorrow I’ll be glued to the TV all day — I want to experience EVERYTHING in personally, just like Stan Jones did!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Di Corry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/05/05/stan-jones-the-coronation/#comment-1508672 Fri, 05 May 2023 07:56:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195611#comment-1508672 A lovely story of a gentle man and a bygone era.
If Alf were still with us, no doubt his much loved home would be looking wonderful for the Coronation celebrations this weekend.
R.I.P Alf.

]]> By: Lynne McBarron https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/05/05/stan-jones-the-coronation/#comment-1508664 Fri, 05 May 2023 05:43:19 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195611#comment-1508664 How lovely .. what a wonderful step back in time.
Thank you .
So many changes and occasions that Stan had lived through.
Thank you for sharing Stan’s story with us.

]]> By: Wendy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/05/05/stan-jones-the-coronation/#comment-1508653 Thu, 04 May 2023 23:38:32 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195611#comment-1508653 This was one of my favourite posts- was so sorry when I heard Stan had died. Thank you for revisiting him and his charming home. I wonder how it has changed since his passing.

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