Comments on: John Thomas Smith’s Vagabondiana II

By: Adam Gilhespy

Adam Gilhespy — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 06:56:29 +0000

Field & Tuer at the Leadenhall Press published a book called Old London Street Cries:

http://www.josephcrawhall.org/old-london-street-cries

By: Gillian Bagwell

Gillian Bagwell — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:47:47 +0000

Love these! And I am alway struck by pictures from these bygone eras, that even the very poor are wearing hat, coat, waistcoat, stock. Old, fourth-hand, mended, and dirty, no doubt, but it still gives them a swagger and raffish charm. Imagine homeless people now wearing three piece suits and a hat and overcoat…

By: Clive Jennings

Clive Jennings — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:42:40 +0000

Hello there Gentle Author

I have been receiving your daily missives for around four months now and enjoy every word – you are doing an excellent job, well done. They brighten the daily tyranny of the inbox.

I know your manor well, having worked in Shoreditch for many years in the ’80’s and the ’90’s. I now live in Fitzrovia and write for Fitzrovia News, our quarterly community newspaper. Your enthusiasm for the obscure and quirky has rekindled an idea I had some time ago to create a similar blog covering Fitzrovia And Soho, using my nom de plume Fitzrovia Flaneur, documenting a changing society, though on an occasional rather than daily basis.

Thank you for wonderful efforts and inspiration.

Best to you
Clive Jennings