Comments on: Sam Syntax’s Cries Of London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/01/18/sam-syntaxs-cries-of-london/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 01 May 2014 22:11:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Classof65 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/01/18/sam-syntaxs-cries-of-london/#comment-242533 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 23:28:08 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=106032#comment-242533 Thank you, Gentle Author, for enlightening me regarding the hastings — none of my dictionaries included the word…

]]> By: Stephen Barker https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/01/18/sam-syntaxs-cries-of-london/#comment-242393 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 12:20:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=106032#comment-242393 Gentle Author, thank you for clearing up the question of what Green Hastings are.

If you read Tobias Smollet’s novel ‘Humphrey Clinker’ and the passage where Squire Bramble denounces the quality of food in London, especially the milk from milkmaids you would never buy food from street vendors

]]> By: Caroline Bottomley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/01/18/sam-syntaxs-cries-of-london/#comment-242343 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 07:44:44 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=106032#comment-242343 Isn’t dust just rubbish? – as in dustbins and dustmen

]]> By: the gentle author https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/01/18/sam-syntaxs-cries-of-london/#comment-242224 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 00:21:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=106032#comment-242224 Green Hastings were fresh green peas in the pod

]]> By: Stephen Barker https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/01/18/sam-syntaxs-cries-of-london/#comment-242138 Sat, 18 Jan 2014 23:21:57 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=106032#comment-242138 Does any one know what the ‘Green & Young Hastings’ are?

Sarah, He could be selling brickdust which was used to clean metalwork, such as knife blades.

]]> By: Gary Arber https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/01/18/sam-syntaxs-cries-of-london/#comment-241871 Sat, 18 Jan 2014 21:14:17 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=106032#comment-241871 The call of the street venders is a sound from the past that I miss.
You could trace their progress along the streets from the diection the call came from.
I can still hear in my memory the call of a rag man who walked the streets of Bow in the 1940’s pushing a cart and ringing a bell :-
“Any old iron or lumbe-e-e-e-r – old rags”
Gary

]]> By: Classof65 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/01/18/sam-syntaxs-cries-of-london/#comment-241758 Sat, 18 Jan 2014 20:22:42 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=106032#comment-241758 What is a hasting?

Thank you in advance for the answer — I love these illustrations!

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/01/18/sam-syntaxs-cries-of-london/#comment-240922 Sat, 18 Jan 2014 10:14:21 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=106032#comment-240922 Wonderful engravings. And wonderful people from the past. Would like to shop there immediately!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Sarah https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/01/18/sam-syntaxs-cries-of-london/#comment-240831 Sat, 18 Jan 2014 09:16:29 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=106032#comment-240831 Was the Dust Ho man offering to do dusting, or selling dust?

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