https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/07/25/james-mcbarron-of-hoxton/ 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, 27 Jul 2014 01:28:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/07/25/james-mcbarron-of-hoxton/#comment-412639 Sun, 27 Jul 2014 01:28:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=116807#comment-412639 Wonderful story and a marvelous trip through time . Thank you .

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/07/25/james-mcbarron-of-hoxton/#comment-411462 Sat, 26 Jul 2014 08:34:01 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=116807#comment-411462 What a really great story. I have done a little bit of digging on Ancestry.co.uk and the details of Celia’s (Cecilia) marriage are:
Married George Hayday on 25 January 1904 at St Thomas Church, Bethnal Green. She was 19 years old and he was 28. Her father was Charles Compton, a firework dealer.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/07/25/james-mcbarron-of-hoxton/#comment-410233 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 13:47:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=116807#comment-410233 A very good story told with empathy and a genuine connection to the time and place, there were several money lenders in the area in and surrounding Hoxton and most were women. I liked James McBarron’s ref to want to have a jkt with pleats in the back, those were indeed the sons of a bookmaker who could afford such attire I had such a jkt and my father was a bookmaker .Good photo’s that are of the time and place

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/07/25/james-mcbarron-of-hoxton/#comment-410058 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:31:46 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=116807#comment-410058 What a grand story. You tell them so wonderfully –

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/07/25/james-mcbarron-of-hoxton/#comment-409992 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:31:02 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=116807#comment-409992 What an absolutely wonderful sequence, so vividly told and reported. I’m so glad you made the journey to see James McBarron and recorded his wealth of memories. But I feel sad that the feisty 15 year old Celia (she looks older) had apparently become a bed-ridden widowed money-lender by her early fifties or before. Strong Dickensian overtones.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/07/25/james-mcbarron-of-hoxton/#comment-409822 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 07:34:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=116807#comment-409822 Wonderful, rich history here (as usual!–and yet in this case there’s something even more than usually serendipitous about the connections that led to this man’s story’s being told, as well as that of Mrs. Hayday), and the photographs are so telling. Thank you for sharing your life with readers, Mr. McBarron. And thank you, Gentle Author.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/07/25/james-mcbarron-of-hoxton/#comment-409702 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 05:46:07 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=116807#comment-409702 Very evocative stories and lovely pictures. Thank you 🙂

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