Comments on: Mickey Davis At The Fruit & Wool Exchange https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/11/12/mickey-davis-at-the-fruit-wool-exchange-i/ 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 Jan 2025 20:12:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Graham Davies https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/11/12/mickey-davis-at-the-fruit-wool-exchange-i/#comment-1676615 Thu, 02 Jan 2025 20:12:19 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201457#comment-1676615 Thank you. I was really moved by the film “ Blitz” and especially the cameo of Mickey, which led me to find your account of him.

]]> By: Kate Bacon https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/11/12/mickey-davis-at-the-fruit-wool-exchange-i/#comment-1646442 Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:50:09 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201457#comment-1646442 How wonderful to read about Mickey Davies especially after seeing the film “Blitz” last weekend.

]]> By: Nicholas Sack https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/11/12/mickey-davis-at-the-fruit-wool-exchange-i/#comment-1645608 Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:44:19 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201457#comment-1645608 The midget with the heart of a giant. What a wonderful story – and beautifully told by Mike Brooke. Thank you and the Gentle Author – you have inspired me to see the film ‘Blitz’.

]]> By: George Kearse https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/11/12/mickey-davis-at-the-fruit-wool-exchange-i/#comment-1645466 Tue, 12 Nov 2024 08:40:13 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201457#comment-1645466 “Eight years before the NHS was set up, Mickey’s shelter in 1940 had a free medical service already up-and-running”, a poignant inspirational example for us all given the state of the NHS in this day and age.
This piece prompted me to find out more on the redevelopment of The Fruit & Wool Exchange. It is yet another example of the Creeping Plague of Ghastly Facadism.
As the Gentle author puts it So Long, Spitalfields Fruit & Wool Exchange October 11, 2012: After the proposal to demolish and redevelop the historic Spitalfields Fruit & Wool Exchange was rejected unanimously twice by the members of Tower Hamlets Council, last night the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, overruled them and gave the plan his blessing. Now, the sixty small businesses based there have to move out by the end of November to make way for the corporate office block that will take the place of the current building.
An example of the forever creeping destruction of areas and places for small businesses which every way we turn in this 21st century of ours.

]]> By: Andy Strowman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/11/12/mickey-davis-at-the-fruit-wool-exchange-i/#comment-1645391 Tue, 12 Nov 2024 06:20:06 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201457#comment-1645391 A truly fine man .
May his soul rest in peace .

Best wishes ,

Andy Strowman .

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