Comments on: The Door To Shakespeare’s London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/05/28/the-door-to-shakespeares-london/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:52:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Desiree Michael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/05/28/the-door-to-shakespeares-london/#comment-1505129 Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:52:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=12966#comment-1505129 It is truly extraordinary to think that the first ever Hamlet could be lying in there under that rubble!

]]> By: Valery https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/05/28/the-door-to-shakespeares-london/#comment-1488046 Mon, 17 Oct 2022 09:45:12 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=12966#comment-1488046 Absolutely amazing post – many thanks for that!

]]> By: gkbowood https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/05/28/the-door-to-shakespeares-london/#comment-1465755 Tue, 31 May 2022 22:27:21 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=12966#comment-1465755 Going back through the other Shakespeare posts and is that Mr Pussy looking in the open door?

]]> By: Marie Nicholson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/05/28/the-door-to-shakespeares-london/#comment-1347544 Thu, 30 Jul 2020 21:16:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=12966#comment-1347544 Your posts always amaze me and I’m green with envy that you live in London and can access all these marvellous buildings. Have you ever thought of doing walking tours around some of the areas? I’d have to come up from the Isle of Wight but I would gladly take my arthritic bones up on the train to delve into some of the places your written about over the years. Thank you for many hours of pleasurable reading.

]]> By: Amanda https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/05/28/the-door-to-shakespeares-london/#comment-1264922 Mon, 25 Feb 2019 11:45:05 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=12966#comment-1264922 ” …….a black cat ran down the stairs and out of the door, turning to look back at me, as if in confirmation of my good luck at this discovery.” May 2010

Never thinking that 8 years later you would be adopted by a black cat from this very church. Shröedinger.

This dusty exploration is unwordly. Shivery that the creaking coffins were so accessible. l thought l had done well to unlock ancient archives and merely stand in prayer on those shiny historical flagstones at the exact spot my great grandparents’ shoes stood to made their vows in 1840 to be together “in richer and in poorer.”
You seem to reach the parts others do not. Fantastic.

]]> By: Gary Croft https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/05/28/the-door-to-shakespeares-london/#comment-1067378 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 11:20:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=12966#comment-1067378 You take me to places that are beyond my wildest dreams.
I just love reading the experiences your hand puts down….sublime

]]> By: Kate Fearnley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/05/28/the-door-to-shakespeares-london/#comment-977004 Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:43:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=12966#comment-977004 This is marvellous stuff – raised goose pimples!

]]> By: David Whittaker https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/05/28/the-door-to-shakespeares-london/#comment-943202 Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:29:06 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=12966#comment-943202 just Wonderful Thanks so much..

]]> By: Ron Pummell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/05/28/the-door-to-shakespeares-london/#comment-100035 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:58:07 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=12966#comment-100035 Fortunately I knew nothing of this history when us Boy Scouts of the 1st Shoreditch had meetings in that crypt about 1949/1951.

]]> By: Sonia Murray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/05/28/the-door-to-shakespeares-london/#comment-67774 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:06:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=12966#comment-67774 A fascinating article – living history! And your comments on the generations of dead that lie in the crypt, the generations that lie between us and Shakespeare’s time, are evocative. My ancestor James Pocock was a common soldier, shot through both thighs at Waterloo; military records show he was born at Shoreditch in 1777, so he would have been baptised at the old church and his parents may be dust in the crypt you photographed.

I also enjoyed the article on David Garrick – I’ve seen the Staffordshire figure often, and knew Garrick was an actor, but knew almost nothing about his life or his performances. Thanks, as always! And your picture of the black cat looking through the crack in the door is marvellous.

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