https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/07/23/marie-iles-machinist-e/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Tue, 23 Jul 2024 14:50:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/07/23/marie-iles-machinist-e/#comment-1591706 Tue, 23 Jul 2024 14:50:24 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=200277#comment-1591706 What lovely people! And such brave little children.
All the best to them.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/07/23/marie-iles-machinist-e/#comment-1591654 Tue, 23 Jul 2024 12:13:42 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=200277#comment-1591654 I love the cheerful seaside picture of Marie and Fred as Flamenco dancers. They look like they’re having such fun.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/07/23/marie-iles-machinist-e/#comment-1591615 Tue, 23 Jul 2024 09:46:06 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=200277#comment-1591615 A lovely Stepney life story – and a love story. Thank you, Gentle Author, and thank you Marie for sharing this. Very best wishes to Marie and Fred.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/07/23/marie-iles-machinist-e/#comment-1591596 Tue, 23 Jul 2024 07:47:09 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=200277#comment-1591596 My headteacher also said terrible things about us kids in the east end in assembly and all the boys looked at me and another boy .
The story is true and evocative and may those terrible people who said such things regret it .
I shall read this to an elderly friend originally from Bethnal Green .

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