https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/07/03/london-characters/ 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, 16 Nov 2020 11:25:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/07/03/london-characters/#comment-1357474 Mon, 16 Nov 2020 11:25:52 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=66010#comment-1357474 I used to work near Oxford Circus in the 1980s and can recall a Sandwich Board Man whose boards said “The End of The World is Nigh”. It always intrigued me and I never stopped him to ask as I was always in a hurry to get home.
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]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/07/03/london-characters/#comment-253038 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 19:35:50 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=66010#comment-253038 my great,great grandfather was caretaker of this building (bedfordhouse)hhis name was
john Robert Murton

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/07/03/london-characters/#comment-230584 Fri, 27 Dec 2013 15:49:02 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=66010#comment-230584 İ would love to have been there magic!!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/07/03/london-characters/#comment-88081 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:56:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=66010#comment-88081 My paternal Grandfather had two big cart horses and a covered wagon, and used to go to Billingsgate every weekday morning, to bring fish and shellfish back to Barking, delivering it to Wet Fish Shops,and Fish and Chip shops, along the way and in Barking.
As it was so early in the morning he used to sleep in the afternoons. He used to have his nightly pint in the pub at the top of the road,and if I was staying with my Grandparents, he used to have to come home to sing me to sleep. No lullabies for me but all the old Musical Hall Songs he knew.

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