Comments on: Nathaniel's latest discoveries https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/05/10/nathaniels-latest-discoveries/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 11 Oct 2018 10:51:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: steven miller https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/05/10/nathaniels-latest-discoveries/#comment-1230840 Thu, 11 Oct 2018 10:51:52 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=7640#comment-1230840 Hi
I hope you can help.
We are researching the Bates hat brands history and was wondering is you have anything that you are happy to share with us?

Kind regards

Steve

]]> By: Susan Lendroth https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/05/10/nathaniels-latest-discoveries/#comment-621 Mon, 10 May 2010 16:07:40 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=7640#comment-621 Oh my gosh, Bates — gentlemen hatters! I am glad to hear that they took their mascot, Binks, with them. I photographed Binks and wrote about him in an article I did for the Los Angeles Times a few years ago about famous cats of London. Binks was wearing a miniature top hat and smoking a cheroot. The eccentricity of it was so very P.G. Wodehouse that I smile whenever I tell his story.

Here’s a link to that page for people to read about Binks:

http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-trw-londoncats13may13-update.

And you can see his photo by clicking the words London Cat tales next to the camera icon under the photo of the Savoy’s black cat.

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