Comments on: Richard Jefferies in the City of London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/10/12/richard-jefferies-in-the-city-of-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 Sun, 05 Aug 2012 21:32:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Libby Hall https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/10/12/richard-jefferies-in-the-city-of-london/#comment-58577 Sun, 05 Aug 2012 21:32:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=46022#comment-58577 Once again another astonishing discovery I might never have made without Spitalfields Life.

]]> By: Pete B https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/10/12/richard-jefferies-in-the-city-of-london/#comment-28185 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:15:36 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=46022#comment-28185 Many thanks for this delightful post. Perhaps you know about the Richard Jefferies museum at his birthplace in Swindon – if not, there are pictures, articles and lots of links here and most of his books, including ‘Story of My Heart’, are on Project Gutenberg for free download for anyone who’s interest has been quickened.

Thanks again – the pictures are marvelous.

Pete

]]> By: jeannette https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/10/12/richard-jefferies-in-the-city-of-london/#comment-28088 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:09:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=46022#comment-28088 http://www.amazon.com/Streetwalking-Metropolis-Women-City-Modernity/dp/0198186835

i think you’d like this book. it includes analysis of some of the great walkers or “flaneuses” of london such as v. woolf and, i think, amy levine. i can’t remember whether or not it analyzes the great post-blitz walking tour taken by doris lessing in the beginning of The Four-Gated City.

but it touches on many of the points mr. jefferies makes. thank you.

]]> By: andrea https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/10/12/richard-jefferies-in-the-city-of-london/#comment-28079 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:38:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=46022#comment-28079 I am not familiar with Mr. Richard Jefferies, but his take on the scene is certainly a melancholy one. It’s as if he is looking at an anthill.

]]> By: Chris Dyson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/10/12/richard-jefferies-in-the-city-of-london/#comment-28076 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:15:30 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=46022#comment-28076 WONDERFUL !
I love the forrays out into the City of London, they seem like great adventures…dynamic and interesting linking our place to the city and to the world beyond. the context of these important instuitutions now in many cases moved on yet the handsome architecture prevails …a lesson indeed for all concerned in making new projects…number one poultry looks very dandy alongside all these buildings handsome in scale and respectful of context…perhaps you should interview the architect Laurence Bain of Sir James Stirlings’ office, i think he would make an interesting read his knowledge of this area is extensive as the building of number one poutlry went through appeal and much historical research for Lord Polumbo the client.
the end result has created one of the citiees first gardens at roof top level with breathtaking views all around.
Chris Dyson RIBA FRSA

]]> By: Susan Lendroth https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/10/12/richard-jefferies-in-the-city-of-london/#comment-28069 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:43:46 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=46022#comment-28069 Thank you Gentle Author and Richard Jeffries for a wonderful piece about the pulse of the city and humanity. And thanks also to Gillian Bagwell for her comment about a thousand years of footsteps on London streets. I can’t wait to return to the city to add my steps to the thrum.

]]> By: Ree https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/10/12/richard-jefferies-in-the-city-of-london/#comment-28065 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:51:51 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=46022#comment-28065 Would that I had grown up in London…I’d have visited every nook-and-crannie…Such as this photographic spot in the City…An other really wonderful little article…

]]> By: Gillian Bagwell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/10/12/richard-jefferies-in-the-city-of-london/#comment-28058 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:33:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=46022#comment-28058 This is great; thanks! I love the pictures from then and now taken from the same place. When I first arrived in London in February 2005 to take care of my mother she was at Barts (St. Bartholomew’s Hospital) and I would take the DLR to Bank and walk from there, so I climbed up the stairs to that corner and then past Mansion House, along Poultry to Cheapside, Newgate Street, and up, every day for many, many days then and later.

I always liked walking past Old Jewry, Ironmonger Lane, Milk Street, and coming back to the Underground station always noted Bucklersbury, now just a little passageway in a modern building on Poultry. It being London, I shouldn’t have been surprised to learn recently that that was the remnant of Bucklersbury, which, according to the Encyclopedia of London, was known as a street since the 14th century, near where Thomas More lived. It was full of apothecaries, and the peculiar smell of which is mentioned in The Merry Wives of Windsor. That’s one of the things I love most about London – walking along streets that have hardly ever been empty of footsteps for more than 1000 years.

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