Comments on: Promise https://spitalfieldslife.com In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:23:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Michael A Hession https://spitalfieldslife.com/my-promise/#comment-1739757 Sat, 21 Jun 2025 02:57:12 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/about/#comment-1739757 Hi:

I am super interested in a family that resided at 15 White Street in 1861-1871. Can we communicate? You have my email. Thanks! Michael

]]> By: Freddy Taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/my-promise/#comment-1684499 Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:01:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/about/#comment-1684499 The gentle author is my favorite, i wish i could write like this. Gripping articles everyday. What a star.

]]> By: James https://spitalfieldslife.com/my-promise/#comment-1682455 Wed, 15 Jan 2025 08:49:07 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/about/#comment-1682455 Love this so much! The Gentle Author is the GOAT.

]]> By: bertie https://spitalfieldslife.com/my-promise/#comment-1682454 Wed, 15 Jan 2025 08:48:35 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/about/#comment-1682454 hope to meet you one day, love your work keep it up

]]> By: Tom Preston https://spitalfieldslife.com/my-promise/#comment-1682453 Wed, 15 Jan 2025 08:48:13 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/about/#comment-1682453 I am incredibly impressed at the dedication, I wish I could stay with something for this long!

]]> By: Meg Twycross https://spitalfieldslife.com/my-promise/#comment-1627573 Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:38:49 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/about/#comment-1627573 Please, where is the Norton Folgate 1600 poorbox now? I have tried every museum and archive website in the district, and drawn a blank. I need to look at it ! But I live in Lancashire, and can’t just launch off into East London on spec.

]]> By: Richard D North https://spitalfieldslife.com/my-promise/#comment-1607188 Thu, 15 Aug 2024 17:13:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/about/#comment-1607188 Dear Gentle Author,

Your site is marvellous. I am glad this comment stream shows you how welcome it is to many people.

Best wishes, RDN

]]> By: Jane S. Gabin https://spitalfieldslife.com/my-promise/#comment-1585434 Sun, 30 Jun 2024 03:29:35 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/about/#comment-1585434 Greetings, Gentle Author!
I already have been receiving, for years, your daily blog and it makes me nostalgic for a time and place I hardly know – because I live in North Carolina, in the south of the United States.

But I am from New York City, so I welcome visits to cities.

I am coming to London this summer, and look forward to our tour on 31 August!

Jane

]]> By: Carol Barton https://spitalfieldslife.com/my-promise/#comment-1565306 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 19:26:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/about/#comment-1565306 Good evening, Gentle Author! My granddad has a tobacconist’s shop in New Street, Spitalfieds, in 1913, according to my late uncle’s birth certificate. I was told to ask you about it (and delighted to have such a great recommendation). My dad was born in the Rothschild Buildings, God rest his soul, but he never spoke of the area, so I didn’t know it was in Spitalfields-or in Jack the Ripper’s territory!–until many years after he was gone. I did take (my own) walking tour of the area in 2008, but didn’t know about Granddad’s shop at the time. Anything you can tell me about the area in the 1920s-1940s will be most gratefully received!

]]> By: Susan E Oliver https://spitalfieldslife.com/my-promise/#comment-1563792 Thu, 04 Apr 2024 04:13:24 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/about/#comment-1563792 Hi
If it mentions on your marriage at St Dunstan’s Stepney you are a rope maker where would you have worked and lived in the Eastend i cannot read where he was from but I think it ends in (atolip) I cannot understand the first letter.
I could send you a copy of the entry if I can have your email.Mine is sb.oliver@bigpond.com
Regards
Susan

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