https://spitalfieldslife.com/2009/09/01/scraping-the-surface/ 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, 15 May 2017 09:29:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2009/09/01/scraping-the-surface/#comment-1149760 Mon, 15 May 2017 09:29:07 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.wordpress.com/?p=122#comment-1149760 From pavings stones to knickers, marvellous! You get it all at GA. Thought I would go back to some of your first posts of which I think I may have missed, you never cease to surprise. When I was a child I liked the smell of freshly layed tarmack & fascinated by the huge steamroller to flatten out the tar. I get that ‘granite tingle’ when I see them as if the old road itself is trying to tell me its past. Clinking hooves, creaking wooden wheels of all kinds of transport, flowing skirts, barefoot playing children and hobnail boots.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2009/09/01/scraping-the-surface/#comment-24897 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:31:17 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.wordpress.com/?p=122#comment-24897 I live on Woodseer Street and sometimes, if you’re lucky, you get a glimpse of the old paving stones through cracks in the tarmac.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2009/09/01/scraping-the-surface/#comment-15997 Sun, 15 May 2011 17:43:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.wordpress.com/?p=122#comment-15997 Yes, it’s wonderful to know they’re there. But that doesn’t make it less sad that we can’t see them; the excuse seems very weak.

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