Comments on: The Bread, Cake & Biscuit Walk https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/30/the-bread-cake-biscuit-walk/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 01 Sep 2013 11:03:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Edward James Gilbert https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/30/the-bread-cake-biscuit-walk/#comment-163069 Sun, 01 Sep 2013 11:03:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=27753#comment-163069 Regarding the Barefield bisquit , I can offer a fact to the storey. Henry’s mother Ann died in 1906 so the bisquit was being mailed to Henry’s wife Edith Emily Barefield who he had married in 1915.In 1911 Henry was living at 20 (not 21) South View Road with his widowed father Henry, a nurseryman and market gardener and his brother William of the same profession. In 1911 Henry Charles was a railway clerk. In WWI Henry Charles was a sergeant with the Royal Army Medical Corp Royal Engineers. Henry Charles Barefield died 1932 at the General Hospital in Tunbridge Wells. His wife died in Tunbridge Wells in 1967.

]]> By: Rob Smith https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/30/the-bread-cake-biscuit-walk/#comment-39016 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:16:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=27753#comment-39016 Loved this item. St Magnus the Martyr is one of my favourite churches, but didnt know about the loaves.

Another London bread to pay homage to is the White Conduit Loaf. This was a small bread roll eaten with butter or cream at the White Conduit House in Islington, a pleasure garden popular in the 18th century. The site was built over long ago but a pub was built on the corner of Barnsbury Road and Dewey Road which still has the name White Conduit House written on the outside wall. I visit the place on my tour of Islington’s Food History – see http://footprintsoflondon.com/larder . The next walk is on February 26th.

Thanks

Rob Smith

]]> By: Felix https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/30/the-bread-cake-biscuit-walk/#comment-10995 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:58:17 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=27753#comment-10995 Thank you so much for writing this beautiful piece about biscuits, bread and cake in London. I am very fascinated by hidden histories, and I love all the material details you have included in your post, and the alternative view of London sight-seeing that you present.
Thanks!

]]> By: melbournegirl https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/30/the-bread-cake-biscuit-walk/#comment-10477 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:46:52 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=27753#comment-10477 Hooray! ‘Twill be a long wait though.

]]> By: the gentle author https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/30/the-bread-cake-biscuit-walk/#comment-10459 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:28:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=27753#comment-10459 In reply to melbournegirl.

Your wishes will be fulfilled in 2012.

]]> By: melbournegirl https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/30/the-bread-cake-biscuit-walk/#comment-10458 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:20:10 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=27753#comment-10458 Yes, yes – bring on the book, Gentle Author!!

]]> By: tina allman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/30/the-bread-cake-biscuit-walk/#comment-10436 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:55:13 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=27753#comment-10436 Dearest gentle author,

How endearing I find your pages. I am placed on a magic carpet and taken on a journey far removed from mine own. I cannot wait to get my hands on the book one day and leisurely visit the places that you show so many of us.
Regards. T. Allman.

]]> By: Joan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/30/the-bread-cake-biscuit-walk/#comment-10396 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:07:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=27753#comment-10396 Perhaps a trip further east to Bow, and specifically the Widow’s Son pub, is in order to see the stale hot cross buns. Homer Sykes has some photos here:

http://homersykes.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/G0000BwankIIfKXA/I0000NbtKmC0fh6Y/1

As its coming up to Good Friday you could even see the ceremony whereby each year a member of the navy presents a hot cross bun to the pub.

Best wishes and thanks again,

Joan

]]> By: Susanna Heron https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/30/the-bread-cake-biscuit-walk/#comment-10384 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:20:24 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=27753#comment-10384 A thought on Henry Charles Barefield’s biscuit- perhaps he saw it as the bread and wine at the Last Supper ‘this is my body, this is my blood”? thinking he would die he sent the biscuit home to be eaten and live on in others?though an atheist myself I can see the poetry of it .

]]> By: Barry Jackson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/30/the-bread-cake-biscuit-walk/#comment-10378 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:37:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=27753#comment-10378 Another of your fascinating and beautifully written pieces. You deserved the bun!

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