https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/10/01/harry-harris-lighterman/ 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, 26 Feb 2024 19:01:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/10/01/harry-harris-lighterman/#comment-1552287 Mon, 26 Feb 2024 19:01:29 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=44956#comment-1552287 Message for Geoff Embleton. My husband’s family may have been watermen.
Would you like to get in touch.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/10/01/harry-harris-lighterman/#comment-1334997 Thu, 09 Apr 2020 10:48:08 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=44956#comment-1334997 Thank you for posting this. Harry Harris was my great grandad. I’m currently trying to find a way of getting the book reprinted.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/10/01/harry-harris-lighterman/#comment-1097099 Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:25:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=44956#comment-1097099 Looking at these because by ancestors were lightermen around the mid 19th century. Their surname was Fenton and I think there were a number of families with this surname.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/10/01/harry-harris-lighterman/#comment-974776 Sat, 20 Jun 2015 06:56:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=44956#comment-974776 Searching for any people that may know of my ancestors in the Embleton family who were lightermen and watermen from the 1860s to 1900.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/10/01/harry-harris-lighterman/#comment-27359 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 07:11:33 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=44956#comment-27359 The river still looked exactly like these photo’s when I was a boy in the 30’s.
You knew if it was foggy before you got out of bed because of all the fog horns and hooters sounding from the ships on the river
Gary

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