Comments on: Business in Bishopsgate, 1892 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/10/26/business-in-bishopsgate-1892/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 06 Oct 2021 19:22:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: David Levy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/10/26/business-in-bishopsgate-1892/#comment-1417547 Wed, 06 Oct 2021 19:22:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=100305#comment-1417547 I spent many an hour in ‘The Bishopsgate Institute ‘on research and study.
My Grandparents had a shop in Artillery Lane.

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/10/26/business-in-bishopsgate-1892/#comment-227714 Sun, 22 Dec 2013 16:20:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=100305#comment-227714 Bee, thanks for posting. As it turns out, Walter Riddle is my 2nd Great-Grandfather, and that’s what led me to find your post. Interestingly enough, I believe Walter also was a piano tuner, among other things, and I wonder if the connection to the shop extended beyond the painting…

]]> By: Bee https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/10/26/business-in-bishopsgate-1892/#comment-200137 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 08:11:36 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=100305#comment-200137 What an eye-opener!! Looking through the Bishopsgate business cards, I spotted one for Moore and Moore Pianoforte Maker. My g.grandfather, David HEARLEY and two of his sons worked for them as a French Polisher. This led me on Google the Moore name, place and date and I discovered a truly delightful painting of a view of the premises in Newnhams Place Bishopsgate, painted by Walter Riddle between 1890 and 1891 and with the name Moore and Moore Pianoforte Maker. A real gem of a find.
Many thanks.

]]> By: the gentle author https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/10/26/business-in-bishopsgate-1892/#comment-199690 Mon, 28 Oct 2013 14:37:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=100305#comment-199690 In reply to Beryl Happe.

The gate itself was the boundary in the wall round the City

]]> By: Beryl Happe https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/10/26/business-in-bishopsgate-1892/#comment-199683 Mon, 28 Oct 2013 14:19:01 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=100305#comment-199683 Fabulous blog again, do you know where the ‘within and without’ boundary was? We used to sing a nursery rhyme about Bishopsgate:- Bishopsgate without, Bishopsgate within,
What a clatter at the gate, oh what a din,
Outside and inside the bishops bang and shout,
Outside crying let me in, Inside let me out !

]]> By: Stephen Barker https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/10/26/business-in-bishopsgate-1892/#comment-199177 Sun, 27 Oct 2013 12:43:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=100305#comment-199177 Reading the adverts makes you realise how dependent we have become on a few branded products and manufacturers compared to the range of tea, tobacco, wine and spirit merchants etc producing their own products in the past.

A 20lb Christmas pudding takes some imagining. I wish I could employ the services of the Artistic and Economical tailor.

]]> By: the gentle author https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/10/26/business-in-bishopsgate-1892/#comment-198841 Sat, 26 Oct 2013 16:47:06 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=100305#comment-198841 In reply to William Sovie.

“Without” means outside the Bishop’s Gate & ‘Within” means inside the City of London

]]> By: Stephen Barry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/10/26/business-in-bishopsgate-1892/#comment-198793 Sat, 26 Oct 2013 13:18:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=100305#comment-198793 What a great find! As my Dutch ancestors were involved in the East London cigar trade, I particularly like the tobacco adverts. Many thanks for your consistently fascinating postings.

]]> By: William Sovie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/10/26/business-in-bishopsgate-1892/#comment-198778 Sat, 26 Oct 2013 12:50:49 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=100305#comment-198778 What does The “Without” in the address mean?
-thanks, William

]]> By: Natalie Koch https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/10/26/business-in-bishopsgate-1892/#comment-198727 Sat, 26 Oct 2013 10:03:35 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=100305#comment-198727 Yesterday my copy of the London Album arrived and what a gem it is! Thank you, Gentle Author, that’s a wonderful job you’ve done!

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