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So kind, Soho
• TUESDAY July 21 will be remembered by one of the staff members at Westminster Advocacy Service for Senior Residents as one of her luckier days.
At 1pm she had her bag containing her handbag, her money, house keys, office keys, passport, Oyster card and bank cards stolen as she ate her lunchtime sandwich in Wardour Street.
Dazed and upset she returned to her office to make all the necessary phone calls and to count the cost of her loss.
Not least of her problems would be a bill running into thousands of pounds for the replacement, that very same day, of the keys to her place of work and the disruption to the many other keyholders.
She would also face calling a locksmith to let her into her own home that evening.
Her surprise and relief on receiving a telephone call at 2.30pm from Mike, the manager of McDonald’s in Leicester Square, to say they had her bag, can easily be imagined.
The thief had dumped it in a stairwell where it had been found by a staff member, who kindly handed it to Mike. On retrieving her bag, the grateful owner discovered that only the Oyster card and some loose change were missing. To make the day complete, another phone call came at 5pm from the Curzon Cinema in Shaftesbury Avenue to say they were holding her mobile phone, lost there two days previously, and would she like to collect it?
She has always thought Soho is a great place to work, a real community.
The kindness of the people working in Soho confirmed that on Tuesday.
IRENE KOHLER
director of Westminster Advocacy Service for Senior Residents,
Dean Street, W1
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