Comments on: Modern London, 1888

By: Kathie Jones

Kathie Jones — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:53:06 +0000

My great grandfather Douglas Ross, worked as a Wood Machinist at S. Harkins. Old Sreet, London. That building is still there.

By: Ron Bunting

Ron Bunting — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 08:46:16 +0000

The Willcox building still stands although i suspect it is more facade than the actual building as it was 20 years ago. Graces guide has a little history on Mr Willcox ,his immediate family and the type of business he conducted.
https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/W._H._Willcox_and_Co

By: Dianne Anderson

Dianne Anderson — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 01:30:31 +0000

I love the old buildings, G J I NGRAM & SONS THE MAN IS MY G G Grandfather.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 17:23:17 +0000

The Willcox Engineers frontage looked just the same ,including the crane, ( albeit a little shabby looking and possibly derelict) in the 1970s and early 80s, I always noticed it when passing on the train from Charing Cross, over the same bridge in the pic !

By: Lawrence Crisp

Lawrence Crisp — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 16:11:53 +0000

At long last the picture of the Whitard Crisp & Co confirms that my grandather W J Crisp may have worked here with his brother Edward. Many of the documents such as birth certs he signed as ‘Leather factor’ a trade he retire from and came to Sussex – then he signed documents as ‘man of means’.

By: Carolyn Badcock - nee Hooper

Carolyn Badcock - nee Hooper — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 01:00:28 +0000

Lovely sketches of the scenes my grandfather, David W Hooper must have seen in his daily life the very year he left home and all loved ones to come to Australia. Scenes he never saw again from age 20.

Still today, parents have young adult children crossing the world to live, forever more, in another land.

Thanks, gentle author.

By: Molasses

Molasses — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 17:27:18 +0000

Excellent – thank you!

Are there any articles on how many of these business survived intact, or their histories?

By: Janet M

Janet M — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 16:03:31 +0000

I want to go shopping in these stores, not the the same globalized businesses of today.

By: Jill

Jill — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 09:05:28 +0000

Glory be! I’m related to the Crisps of Whittard Crisp Leather, great great grandfather William James Crisp was a leather factor and this business was owned by his brother Edward.

Thankyou Gentle Author for this unexpected delight.

By: Greg Tingey

Greg Tingey — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 08:35:16 +0000

D H Evans are still with us, I think.
As for the rest: “Where are the snows of yesteryear?”