https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/03/05/modern-cries-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 Fri, 08 Mar 2013 07:10:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/03/05/modern-cries-of-london/#comment-92457 Fri, 08 Mar 2013 07:10:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=83285#comment-92457 Gentle Author – how delightful! But you’re breaking my little family historian heart. My tears are falling down here in Austalia as I see those old sketches of the street sellers in Spitalfields. I can almost see my great grandmother, Maria Milway Randall, a straw hat maker at work in 1851. And as for her future husband, William Nathaniel Hooper’s sister, Susannah’s daughter, Susannah Eastwell, aged 17, the “hawker of cat’s meat” – I can hear her shrill young voice calling all along the streets.
When I next see London, I will definitely be on those East End streets. After seeing your blog for just one week, and googling Spitalfields further, I think my Randalls, who came down from Bedford, are Huguenots. Wow! the story grows – huge thanks to you.
Carolyn

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/03/05/modern-cries-of-london/#comment-92273 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 07:16:13 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=83285#comment-92273 Thank you Ros 🙂

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/03/05/modern-cries-of-london/#comment-92006 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:53:15 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=83285#comment-92006 Lovely piece! Congreves (the more common spelling) are indeed precursors to safety matches and there are several learned articles if one googles Congreve matches. Apollo Lungs is perhaps a town crier sort of chap bellowing out his announcements from his long list. Allan Water is a ballad with the statutory Miller’s Daughter. What one can learn from The Gentle Author…

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/03/05/modern-cries-of-london/#comment-92002 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:06:42 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=83285#comment-92002 I found an advertisement for one J. Nathan who sells matches and congreaves. Quote: “great improvement in lucifers […] inventor of the French congreaves, which are peculiarly adapted for shipping orders, as they will keep in any climate” I gather they are some sort of waterproof matches.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/03/05/modern-cries-of-london/#comment-91964 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:31:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=83285#comment-91964 Another great piece of social history. Ta!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/03/05/modern-cries-of-london/#comment-91962 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:28:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=83285#comment-91962 I wonder why Mother Matchem used the word ‘congreaves’?

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/03/05/modern-cries-of-london/#comment-91954 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:19:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=83285#comment-91954 .. and I can’t find what Congreaves are, matches I can see, but no dictionary definition of how made and what from. Codlings foxed me but I see they are a type of apple. I love the older sets of Cries of London ..

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/03/05/modern-cries-of-london/#comment-91923 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:34:55 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=83285#comment-91923 I don’t understand Apollo Lungs: what is he selling?

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