Comments on: The Gentle Author’s Next Pub Crawl https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/10/10/the-gentle-authors-next-pub-crawl/ 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, 11 Oct 2013 22:59:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Phil Maxwell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/10/10/the-gentle-authors-next-pub-crawl/#comment-190059 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 13:19:59 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=99260#comment-190059 Lovely pubs – full of lovely real ale!

]]> By: Mike Shingleton https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/10/10/the-gentle-authors-next-pub-crawl/#comment-190023 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 11:48:30 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=99260#comment-190023 I’m afraid the reference to body snatchers at the Rising Sun is a fiction and the work of a local tour guide from 20 years ago. He claimed they met in the upstairs bar – an impossibility as the present buildling only dates back to about 1880 some 70 odd years after body snatching died out.

The trade did encompass a local hostelry – The Fortune of War in Giltspur Street which stood opposite Barts hospital and therefore the source of the cadavers. The Fortune of War was demolished in 1910.

]]> By: suzy r https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/10/10/the-gentle-authors-next-pub-crawl/#comment-189743 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 22:22:00 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=99260#comment-189743 Dear GA,

I normally save all your posts up and savour them when I have a spare hour or so but it did mean that I was always behind. However, I have now entered the 21st Century and am the proud owner of a new iphone (how come no one told me how much it would revolutionise my life?) and I can read your posts on the day, wherever I may find myself…on the bus, in a queue, waiting for a train, in a cafe, blah, blah, blah.

Next week I’ll be stuck in hospital post horrid surgery but a dose of your daily posts will be the best medicine.

If I could write with even just a smidgen of your eloquence I would be one very happy lady.

Thank you!

Suzy

P.S. Loved y’days post!

]]> By: Julie Gilbert https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/10/10/the-gentle-authors-next-pub-crawl/#comment-189736 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 21:48:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=99260#comment-189736 Ah, High Holborn.. Writing from Aus brings back a few memories – and this poem from Adrian Mitchell (I think):

When I am sad and weary
When I think all hope is gone
When I walk along High Holborn
I think of you, with nothing on.

🙂

I miss the pubs.

]]> By: Audrey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/10/10/the-gentle-authors-next-pub-crawl/#comment-189729 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 21:20:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=99260#comment-189729 Trouble is, that would be back to gin & tonic, plonk… But many thanks for the marvelous patterns. Truly, Audrey

]]> By: Elizabeth cornwell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/10/10/the-gentle-authors-next-pub-crawl/#comment-189704 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 19:55:44 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=99260#comment-189704 Modern pubs are ghastly,they have no soul.These pubs are wonderful

]]> By: Terry Basson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/10/10/the-gentle-authors-next-pub-crawl/#comment-189695 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 19:34:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=99260#comment-189695 We Brits owe so much to those that have preserved and kept our pubs alive – through bouts of economy crashes – WW2 bombs and not to mention the camera of ‘The Gentle Author’

]]> By: Martin G https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/10/10/the-gentle-authors-next-pub-crawl/#comment-189655 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:17:28 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=99260#comment-189655 Ah the joy of an autumn pub crawl. Don’t forget the cell tour at the Viaduct and see the squalid conditions mainly debters had to endure.

Black and white pubs pics are the best.

]]> By: David Whittaker https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/10/10/the-gentle-authors-next-pub-crawl/#comment-189562 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 12:33:47 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=99260#comment-189562 Just Beautiful…would make a wonderful book..

]]> By: Jonathon Green https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/10/10/the-gentle-authors-next-pub-crawl/#comment-189474 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 07:52:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=99260#comment-189474 Alleged it may be, and everyone loves a bit of popular etymology especially with a little death thrown in, but ‘on the wagon’ simply abbreviates ‘on the water wagon’, and is found as such in the first use of 1889. Similar early uses refer to the ‘water-cart’. For a while abstainers could also ‘ride’ or ‘climb’ the water-wagon’. Nit picked, I must add that as regards the pix: your peerless self, as ever.

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