Globe takes a moment to reflect

Throughout the summer Globe has travelled around east London encountering many people along its path.

On one occasion we met a 93-year old man and his son.

‘What is this?’ the older man asked.

‘This is Globe’ we responded, ‘what do you think it represents?’

‘The earth and togetherness’ the son responded.

This encounter turned out to be intriguing. The older man and his son were standing outside the residence he’d first lived in, having arrived in the UK on the kindertransport in 1939, aged 16. He pointed to a house across the road where he’d moved to shortly afterwards with his adopted family. Later that day we met him again outside the building where his first girlfriend had lived and worked as a hairdresser. Just as Globe was journeying around the city, this man, with his son, was tracing his past journeys, as a child refugee from Nazi Germany to London and then to different dwellings around the city.