Comments on: In a Well in Spitalfields https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/05/24/in-a-well-in-spitalfields/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 21 Feb 2015 13:14:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Mike Charlton https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/05/24/in-a-well-in-spitalfields/#comment-822595 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 22:41:40 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=89817#comment-822595 I’m most envious of you, Gentle Author! For me to be able to examine closely these objects from my favourite time in history would be a dream come true! I suppose I will have to enjoy the experience vicariously. Yet another wonderfully written article with even more excellent photos!

]]> By: valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/05/24/in-a-well-in-spitalfields/#comment-157770 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:18:44 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=89817#comment-157770 I loved watching the video of Robin Wood turning his bowl – thanks! Valerie

]]> By: Stephanie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/05/24/in-a-well-in-spitalfields/#comment-122156 Tue, 25 Jun 2013 13:30:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=89817#comment-122156 The boots look in too good a condition to have just been thrown away. Does anyone have any thoughts as to what happened to the owner?

]]> By: robin wood https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/05/24/in-a-well-in-spitalfields/#comment-118365 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:36:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=89817#comment-118365 Thisivideo shows how the bowls would have been made http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLpNNf4V5lU

]]> By: robin wood https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/05/24/in-a-well-in-spitalfields/#comment-118364 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:35:51 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=89817#comment-118364 Great post and good to see these bowls shown in public, shame they live in the store. Jack the bowls were made on a pole lathe, I use one every day and turned 20 bowls on mine yesterday. google robin wood you’ll find photos and youtubes of the lathe in use. Turner is the 26th most common surname in the UK as against potter at 256th, nearly everyone in medieval times ate from wood. The craft dwindled once the stoke potteries made cheap ceramics in the 18th century. “The last bowlturner” was George Lailey, his lathe is the centrepiece of the Museum of English Rural Life at Reading, he used to be the most famous person from the small village of Bucklebury but has been rather eclipsed by Kate Middleton. Lailey died in 1958 aged 89. I took up the craft 30 years later and have now been doing it full time 20 years.

]]> By: Douglas R Fitch https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/05/24/in-a-well-in-spitalfields/#comment-118360 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 06:54:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=89817#comment-118360 Thank you for posting these and for thinking to share them on my FB, they’re beautiful. It would be great to meet you some time and have you draw on one of my jugs 🙂

]]> By: Fred https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/05/24/in-a-well-in-spitalfields/#comment-116812 Sat, 08 Jun 2013 08:45:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=89817#comment-116812 @ Jack’s question : just Google image search “treadle lathe” and you’ll see an interesting array of old designs.

]]> By: Jack https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/05/24/in-a-well-in-spitalfields/#comment-116553 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:33:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=89817#comment-116553 Has anyone any idea of what a lathe might look like that could turn those ancient plates?

]]> By: K.M.Lockwoodk https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/05/24/in-a-well-in-spitalfields/#comment-113139 Sun, 26 May 2013 17:27:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=89817#comment-113139 Nearby and within the city of London there are 3 hospitals or spytells, commonly called Saint Mary’s Spytell, Saint Bartholomew’s Spytell and Saint Thomas Spytell, and the new abbey of Tower Hill, founded with devotion by people of faith years ago , and endowed with great possessions and rents to be used for the relief, comfort, and healing of the poor and impotent people who cannot help themselves, and not for so that canons, priests, and monks may live in pleasure, with no regard to the miserable people who lie in every street and offend very clean person passing by with their filthy and nasty smells.

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]]> By: Molasses https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/05/24/in-a-well-in-spitalfields/#comment-113129 Sun, 26 May 2013 16:40:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=89817#comment-113129 Could someone kindly translate Sir Richard Gresham’s letter in contemporary english?

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