Comments on: Jolyon Tibbitts, Upper Bailiff of the Worshipful Company of Weavers https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/04/22/jolyon-tibbitts-upper-bailiff-of-the-worshipful-company-of-weavers/ 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, 24 Apr 2015 00:27:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Peter Hobbs https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/04/22/jolyon-tibbitts-upper-bailiff-of-the-worshipful-company-of-weavers/#comment-943362 Fri, 24 Apr 2015 00:27:03 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=86150#comment-943362 My how the years have flown.

]]> By: Wendy Fenton https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/04/22/jolyon-tibbitts-upper-bailiff-of-the-worshipful-company-of-weavers/#comment-755199 Tue, 13 Jan 2015 13:27:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=86150#comment-755199 My great-grandmother, Rachel Salmon, née Rippin, who was born in Mar 1849 in Bethnal Green, Middlesex and died in 1940 in S.W. Essex, was a weaver (I understand for Warners). Both her parents Thomas and Lucy (née Platt) Rippin were weavers, and indeed there were many weavers in the family, going back for several generations. My father told me that she wove silks for Queen Victoria, and a loom donated by Sir Frederick Warner in about 1925 to the Bethnal Green Museum, was said to have been hers. She would presumably have been an outworker (particularly after her marriage), but would have worked for Warners even back in the days when they were in Spitalfields. She wove from about 1862 to about 1925. Soon after the death of her husband in 1923 she moved in with family members and wouldn’t have had room for her looms.

I would be very interested to know the address in Spitalfields of the Warners’ establishment before they moved to Braintree. I have visited the Warner Archive in Braintree, but didn’t think to ask them this. I live in Western Australia, so am not in a position to make personal enquiries.

Does anyone know the Spitalfields address of Warners, please?

Wendy Fenton

]]> By: Ken hill https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/04/22/jolyon-tibbitts-upper-bailiff-of-the-worshipful-company-of-weavers/#comment-446474 Sat, 16 Aug 2014 14:54:46 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=86150#comment-446474 It was most interesting reading about Jolyon Tibbits. I was the export shipping manager for Warner and Sons Ltd for over 20Years although I have lost all contact with Warners.

]]> By: Ian Harrison https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/04/22/jolyon-tibbitts-upper-bailiff-of-the-worshipful-company-of-weavers/#comment-216191 Fri, 29 Nov 2013 02:04:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=86150#comment-216191 I have traced an Ancestor a William Harrison of Grey Eagle Street Spitalfields born around 1700. Has anyone got a list of the Weavers in Spitalfields at thet time. His son, also William married a Mary Magdelen Direau, which I suspect is a Hugeunot name in 1755 at Bethnal Green
Can any one help
Thanks
Ian Harrison

]]> By: Peter Holford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/04/22/jolyon-tibbitts-upper-bailiff-of-the-worshipful-company-of-weavers/#comment-103870 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:33:02 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=86150#comment-103870 We live in a valley in the South Pennines where small mills still eked out an existence until the 1980s. The last one closed around 1990. Recently it re-opened and in conjunction with a high-end clothing designer and manufacturer further up the valley it appears to be prospering. Very encouraging!

]]> By: Elaine Napier https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/04/22/jolyon-tibbitts-upper-bailiff-of-the-worshipful-company-of-weavers/#comment-103607 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:48:51 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=86150#comment-103607 My family must have been some of the last weavers still working – they were still working as trimmings manufacturers in the early 20th Century, having worked as orris weavers from the earliest days of the 19th Century.

I love to hear about weavers in the East End, especially ones with a British history.

]]> By: mlleparadis https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/04/22/jolyon-tibbitts-upper-bailiff-of-the-worshipful-company-of-weavers/#comment-103586 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:23:55 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=86150#comment-103586 Glorious!

]]> By: Elizabeth cornwell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/04/22/jolyon-tibbitts-upper-bailiff-of-the-worshipful-company-of-weavers/#comment-103523 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:07:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=86150#comment-103523 In Alnwick castle the walls are hung with silk woven in Sudbury,Suffolk.

]]> By: Vicky https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/04/22/jolyon-tibbitts-upper-bailiff-of-the-worshipful-company-of-weavers/#comment-103512 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:19:48 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=86150#comment-103512 I had no idea that weaving mills were returning to Britain and that home spun cloth was once again being manufactured here. Excellent news for a Monday morning. And wouldn’t it be good to see looms back in Spitalfields, after all, we have the windows!

]]> By: Margaret https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/04/22/jolyon-tibbitts-upper-bailiff-of-the-worshipful-company-of-weavers/#comment-103427 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:47:47 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=86150#comment-103427 It’s really interesting and encouraging to learn that the British textile industry is slowly rising from that period of long decline. Here in our corner of southern France the once pre-eminent industry is still in free-fall, so clearly the Worshipful Company of Weavers and others are working hard in difficult times to turn things round.

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