Comments on: Charles Hindley’s Cries Of London

By: Caroline Murray

Caroline Murray — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 19:49:53 +0000

Your readers may like to know that they can get a paperback reissue of Hindley’s 1881 edition from the Cambridge Library Collection (www.cambridge.org/clc), as well as his Tavern Anecdotes and Sayings (1875) and History of the Catnach Press (1886). We also ‘do’ Knight’s wonderful 6-volume London (1841–4) and many other eighteenth- and nineteenth-century works on London and its people.

By: Stephen Barker

Stephen Barker — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 19:16:33 +0000

Fascinating woodcuts, thank you for making them available to a wider audience. It would be great to see a selection of these and from the other series you have featured reprinted.

By: Victoria

Victoria — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 06:46:48 +0000

Very much like this series. And so many of the products must be be brought in from further afield. The Banbury cakes seller has just reminded me of a special Christmas spent in a hotel by Banbury Cross; there was snow on the ground and freshly made Banbury cakes on offer to welcome the guests.

By: Carrie Kitkat

Carrie Kitkat — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 06:32:02 +0000

What a brilliantly evocative, yet simple, post!

I was transported back to memories of watching a certain Lionel Bart film. So informative – new words: rue, pottle, groat and incredible insight into what was sold and bought in those long gone times! Thank you