Comments on: Marie Iles, Machinist https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/07/24/marie-iles-machinist-iiii/ 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, 25 Jul 2026 21:28:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Louise Fry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/07/24/marie-iles-machinist-iiii/#comment-2152923 Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:28:28 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=207655#comment-2152923 They got married the same day as my nan and grandad, they got married in Stoke Newington. Lovely story

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/07/24/marie-iles-machinist-iiii/#comment-2151903 Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:10:34 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=207655#comment-2151903 An interesting life, and so glad that all worked out well in the end for Marie and her family. I was born just after the war and grew up in Chelsea, but not the place it is now, as our playgrounds were literally bomb sites.

]]> By: Charles Orleans https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/07/24/marie-iles-machinist-iiii/#comment-2150731 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:03:46 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=207655#comment-2150731 Such a moving story. Thank you for telling it.

]]> By: Debra. E. Sewell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/07/24/marie-iles-machinist-iiii/#comment-2150570 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:47:44 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=207655#comment-2150570 Her story made me cry.. Beautiful and sad and precious. Marie had and has a wonderful life full of precious memories. She would have been a wonderful mum. However, i feel she was a very loved Aunt.

thank you for sharing her life with us

]]> By: ANDY STROWMAN https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/07/24/marie-iles-machinist-iiii/#comment-2149987 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:11:47 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=207655#comment-2149987 All I can say it is marvellous to read . I shall read it all to a blind lady called Betty who is from Hoxton and Shoreditch .
Thank you
Andy

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