Comments on: At The Blind Beggar https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/03/31/at-the-blind-beggar/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 08 Jan 2017 16:23:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: PETER REARDON https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/03/31/at-the-blind-beggar/#comment-593249 Sat, 25 Oct 2014 05:24:42 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=110581#comment-593249 Hi
We really love your site, a good deal of it brings back memories of my teenage years the East End in the 1950’s and went to school at Christian St school then onto Davenant grammar school in Whitechapel Rd.
For the past 20 years we have lived in Australia, my dad had the tobacconist shop at the end of Dock st , opposite London Dock where the 647 trolleybus’s turned around. My wife and I were married by Father Joe Williamson in St Paul’s church in Dock Street, next to the Seamans mission, which I believe no longer exists, I spent my post school years as a lighterman on the Thames, leaving upon seeing the light of the onslaught of containerised shipping and the consequenceal demise of the docks and river cargo.
I have been looking forward to seeing any write up on that part of Stepney, (if it’s still called that), and incorporating Dockland, Wapping life, the infamous Cable St life etc.

Kind regards
Peter & Elaine Reardon

]]> By: Lesley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/03/31/at-the-blind-beggar/#comment-271106 Wed, 02 Apr 2014 06:32:38 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=110581#comment-271106 I have very fond memories of drinking in the garden of this pub on a (rare!) sunny afternoon back in 2008 when I used to live on Hackney Road. Great pub with lots of character – just like the owner it seems! Not too many places like that here in Australia. Would love to return for a pint one day!

]]> By: sprite https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/03/31/at-the-blind-beggar/#comment-270408 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 08:09:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=110581#comment-270408 Love the puns of koi/carp and the habit!

]]> By: mary moulder https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/03/31/at-the-blind-beggar/#comment-270052 Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:01:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=110581#comment-270052 Loved the outfit! Mary from Tucson, AZ, USA

]]> By: valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/03/31/at-the-blind-beggar/#comment-269670 Mon, 31 Mar 2014 07:39:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=110581#comment-269670 Looks like a jolly place to spend an evening – glad this pub hasn’t been closed down! Valerie

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/03/31/at-the-blind-beggar/#comment-269662 Mon, 31 Mar 2014 07:26:03 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=110581#comment-269662 A convincing and consistent philosophy of life! — I’ll give it a try when in London … 🙂

Love & Peace
ACHIM

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