Comments on: Philip Marriage’s Spitalfields

By: Janet

Janet — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 13:37:29 +0000

Could someone put me in touch with Philip Marriage with a view to exchanging genealogical information as we have ancestors in common. My 3x grandfather John Standish married Amelia Ann Marriage in 1824. For many years they lived in Vineyard Cottage, 1 Vineyard Gardens off Bowling Green Lane. I spent many hours poring over old maps and documents to locate the address which no longer exists and in doing so have become familiar with the East End. The Standishes and Marriages lived in the area for generations. Very recently I discovered the Mariage French connection and that they were silk weavers — very fortuitous or Philip’s reference would not have caught my attention.
I spent most of my life in NZ and now am disabled and must rely on virtual visits to this area.
Thank you Gentle Author and Philip Marriage

By: Nicola

Nicola — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 09:31:10 +0000

I adore these photographs too much of my favourite part of London plus where my ancestries herald
From
And married christened buried in the Christchurch Fashion street is amazing – I wonder if anyone ( probably have ) taken the exact same photographs from the same POV in 2020 ? Would relish to do that

By: Gilda Haber, PhD

Gilda Haber, PhD — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 15:41:22 +0000

I was born in East London – please see my published memoir, Cockney Girl. We first lived in a flat above a Grocery shop on Vallance Road, Dad had a barber shop. Mum worked as a ladies
hairdresser. I had a good friend, Joycey Kennel, we used to tour the Easat end on Saturdays, warned not to speak to strangers. WE visited the Children’s Museum where we played Hie andSeek. At age 4, Mum sent me to a Christian orphanage in Chingford that closed after two years. Home, delighted, I visited my grandparents who had a grocery on Cambridge Heath Road. Incidentally, one of the Breweries gave me a scholarship to Spitalfields High School, besides the full scholarship I won. My young uncle took me to the 1936 Cable Street Battle, Moseley’s attempted march through the Jewish East End, thwarted by Jews, unions and other groups, also described in Cockney Girl, with photos. Her served in the army in Egypt. Another uncle, a chemist, as blown up while doing secret work. Evacuated during the war, met Yanks, I returned to finish high school, loved passing Spitalfied Market, went to LondonSchool of Economics, when 21, emigrated to America. Now I am a retired PhD professor and author. Incidentally, grandparents came from Russian and Polish persecution to E. London Many Fascists led by Oswald Mosely.Parents,, grandparents, aunt and uncles all now deceased but one cousin, lived in East End. Gilda Moscovitch (Moss) Haber, PhD. (We last lived on Columbia Road, flower market on Sundays. ) I have always loved East London and London, though radically changed. Sundays, Dad took me to museums, Wed. half-day closing, to buy fags and condoms sold in his barber shop. Happy days long gone.

By: Danny Post

Danny Post — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 11:39:22 +0000

Is there a book of his photographs?

By: Philip Marriage

Philip Marriage — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 21:59:40 +0000

S. Spital, Tobacconist & Confectioner, April-May 1990
I have never been able to place this shop but assumed it had been in Brushfield Street, however my walk that day went down Brushfield Street, past Fort Street, Gun Street to Toynbee Street, Thrawl Street, Fournier Street and finishing in Old Montague Street – so it quite likely is, as Bill Haynes says (in the comment on the actual photo), in Old Montague Street. The only clue is the end of the old Victorian street sign which says ‘ST. E1’. Some of the other Victorian street signs say E eg Gun St and Artillery Passage, whilst others say E1 like Artillery Lane, Fort Street, Crispin Street and Brushfield Street yet are next to each other. All very strange!

Philip

By: Carolyn Dominish

Carolyn Dominish — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 02:06:42 +0000

I felt a sharp pang of deja vu whilst looking at these images. I have never been to Spitalfields, or, indeed, England.

I have a descendant who was born in Spitalfields 1590. He was English and his name was John Smart. He was a silk merchant who.married the daughter, Sara, of another silk merchant by the name of Vercolge. The Vercolge family were Huguenots and had fled death and persecution in Belgium.

Looking at these wonderful images took me back there in my dreams. btw I was born in Australia, but my father was born in England. Dad was born in Bromsgrove.

By: david prescott

david prescott — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 17:00:14 +0000

wonderful photos memory blasters

By: James O'Brien

James O'Brien — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 15:45:03 +0000

Great photos, I went to school in Gun Street early 60’s it was a convent school St Joseph’s, never seem to be able to find any pictures of it though, don’t know if it is still standing, although I had heard it ceased being a school many years ago.

I lived behind Liverpool Street Station in Appold Street in a tenement block but that has also gone.

By: Phil Maxwell

Phil Maxwell — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 16:32:20 +0000

A wonderful record in colour.

By: Philip Marriage (really)

Philip Marriage (really) — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:53:25 +0000

I was just browsing and came across this name and website and just had to have a look as its the same as mine. Very good pictures. Thanks.