Comments on: London Lore at Dennis Severs’ House https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/05/london-lore-at-dennis-severs-house/ 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, 17 Jun 2013 07:34:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Andrea Kirkby https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/05/london-lore-at-dennis-severs-house/#comment-119667 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:34:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=90732#comment-119667 I’ve just got back from India and was lucky enough in Calcutta to meet the journalists at Good News Tab. The publication had recently run a story on the last bioscope operator in Calcutta – a chap who tours cut-down highlights of popular films shown in a portable theatre that is not all that different from some of the peep shows you illustrate here.

GNT’s website is down, but I did find quite a nice link here: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/Culture/Cinema/bioscopewallah.html

]]> By: Gillian https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/05/london-lore-at-dennis-severs-house/#comment-116789 Sat, 08 Jun 2013 06:45:00 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=90732#comment-116789 One of the images shows a peep show of The Red Barn Murder, which happened in the 1820s in a Suffolk village. There is an exhibition dedicated to the muder and trial in the Moyses Hall Museum in Bury St Edmunds, containing some rather gruesome artifacts. I can remember seeing them as a child, hardly daring to look. I’ll let you discover them, still on display! There’s a red barn website for those interested.

]]> By: Peter Holford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/05/london-lore-at-dennis-severs-house/#comment-115897 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:10:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=90732#comment-115897 Some great illustrations of peep shows – they really capture how magical they must have seemed.

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