People You May Meet On My Tour
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Map of the Gentle Author’s Tour drawn by Adam Dant
Join me on a ramble through Spitalfields taking no more than two hours, but walking through two thousand years of history and encountering just a few of the people who have made the place distinctive. Here is a selection of whom we may meet.
Linda Carney, Machinist
Harry Landis, Actor
Udham Singh
Emilia Bassanio Lanier (Portrait by Nicholas Hilliard)
Sir John Betjeman & Dan Cruickshank
Neville Turner
Audrey Kneller
Boy wearing Horace Warner’s Hat
Adelaide Springett
Jerry Donovan
Walter Seabrook
Jessica & Rosalie Wakefield
Sandra Esqulant
Danny Tabi
David Prescott
Joan Lauder, the cat lady of Spitalfields
If I can be of help in a future tour, although sitting down telling is my limit, then please let me know.
Dear GA, I would love to meet all these extraordinary people on one of your tours — I hope to achieve just that in this lifetime!
Love & Peace
ACHIM
Such interesting faces on these people. I wouldn’t however had recognised Dan Cruickshank from his image here. Glad to see his son is now also flying the flag for the area.
The tour (took it with three friends in early January) is absolutely fabulous – really opened my eyes to all sorts of different ideas and sights that I have been thinking and reading about since: urban planning (and how much of what we see as modern has roots back to the 16th century); Culpepper’s Herbal (had/still have an early copy that I appreciate anew); progress; community and courage of folks, repeatedly, cyclically settling in the East End taking in its hardships, rewards and joy. Kind of a metaphor for the rest of us in the world.