Comments on: The Lost Hamlet Of Ratcliff https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/02/10/the-lost-hamlet-of-ratcliff/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 25 Apr 2025 14:16:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Vivien Langton https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/02/10/the-lost-hamlet-of-ratcliff/#comment-1715780 Fri, 25 Apr 2025 14:16:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=129887#comment-1715780 My great grandmother lived in Ratcliff so a very interesting read thank you

]]> By: Francis Groves https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/02/10/the-lost-hamlet-of-ratcliff/#comment-1623826 Sun, 15 Sep 2024 16:21:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=129887#comment-1623826 I’m staying at St Katherine’s on a work related course and was idling and decided to take a walk and noticed Ratclif several times and got curious and searched for information and ended up on this site. I really enjoyed the piece on the area and loved to read about the place which seemed chaotic, noisy and so full of life (and death), in contrast to the peaceful surroundings I find myself calmly relaxing in. You really brought the place to life, I’m going back out to look at the Thames, which judging by the map appears to be a 5-10 minute walk away. Thanks again for providing a peek into the past.

]]> By: Baldur https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/02/10/the-lost-hamlet-of-ratcliff/#comment-1553033 Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:16:55 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=129887#comment-1553033 Hi, my father has a vintage draw telescope, made of copper and wood, it has been in the family for at least 100 -150 years. We recently took a very close look at some worn engravements on it. It looks like, but not for sure:

S Wisborn
Ratcliff Croft
London

Any idea about this S Wisborn, was it a person,ship or a company?

]]> By: Eric https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/02/10/the-lost-hamlet-of-ratcliff/#comment-1552916 Wed, 28 Feb 2024 11:33:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=129887#comment-1552916 The article about Redcliffe Limehouse was very interesting there were two shipwrights Born in Redcliffe they went to the London road Barking they were granted land to build a Bungalow, so they could help in the barking fishing industry I am an 81-year-old man volunteer in the Barking history project

]]> By: Gary Barnett https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/02/10/the-lost-hamlet-of-ratcliff/#comment-1530295 Sun, 03 Dec 2023 23:34:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=129887#comment-1530295 There seems to be some confusion between the hamlet, later parish, of Ratcliff/Ratcliffe and the area surrounding the Ratcliff(e) Highway. The Highway was the road to Ratcliff(e) that ran through St. George in the East and then became Shadwell High Street.

]]> By: Valerie Kamruddin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/02/10/the-lost-hamlet-of-ratcliff/#comment-1511912 Mon, 12 Jun 2023 13:34:00 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=129887#comment-1511912 Can anyone shed any light on The Ratcliff Settlement founded by Emily Alice Keightley and Ellen Rankin who came from Stambridge in Essex. There is a stained glass window in Stambridge Church dedicated to their memories and good works.

]]> By: Bronwen Summers https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/02/10/the-lost-hamlet-of-ratcliff/#comment-1491702 Fri, 18 Nov 2022 01:40:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=129887#comment-1491702 Kia ora

I was delighted to come across this site. My interest in it relates to the Coles, their last two children were born when Stephen and Ann Cole were living at Ratcliffe.

Stephen Cole (1643) ropemaker married Ann Newham a widow 25 May 1662 St Dunstan, Stepney and they had four sons: Thomas Cole 15 March 1662 (11 days old), Steeven Cole 17 January 1665 (7 days old) living at Mile End, Edward Cole 16 February 1667 (living at Mile End), Steeven Cole 19 March 1670 (living in Ratcliff), John Cole 30 April 1674 (living in Ratcliff). All registered at St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex.
Steven Cole died 1710 Tower Hamlets, Middlesex.
Ann Cole died 1710 Tower Hamlets, Middlesex.

I would like permission to use the first two paragraphs of the text and the map you have pictured to add to my family tree, this is not on-line but a 500 page document I am putting together about my ancestors.

Nga mihi nui (very best wishes)
Bronwen
Otautahi (Christchurch)
Aotearoa

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/02/10/the-lost-hamlet-of-ratcliff/#comment-1447071 Sun, 16 Jan 2022 14:43:30 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=129887#comment-1447071 I tried this before but I was wondering if you seen this video on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLp8zrpIYlw&list=PLVSLAgXKmb41jKj2wpQ_hqQK_yqWQWWa5
I am trying to identify the scnes as they would be today especially near the end when the car drives on a desolate wharf that is supposed to be Ratcliff?
More info on the you tube video:
In the Mind’s Eye (1977) – A Local Legend about an Evil 18th century vicar and his pretty female accomplice who murder and rob unsuspecting Seamen along the docks of East London. The programme investigates the supposed many stories of local workers of sightings of a ghostly 18th century old vicar still seen wandering along the docks in 1977.

Here’s what the maker of the programme Colin Wilson had to say about the making of it.

“The Ghost of Ratcliff Wharf
by Colin Wilson

Prof Wiseman and Psychic Suggestibity
Back to… Skeptics in the Media

Colin Wilson draws a distinction between psychic suggestibility and genuinely paranormal phenomena but becomes worried when sceptics show signs of refusing to look facts in the face

]]> By: Philip Heath https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/02/10/the-lost-hamlet-of-ratcliff/#comment-1439961 Sun, 05 Dec 2021 23:36:58 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=129887#comment-1439961 I’ve never seen a photo of the parish church of St. Thomas in Ratcliff which was destroyed in WWII. Is there really none in existence?

]]> By: Pearl Severinski https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/02/10/the-lost-hamlet-of-ratcliff/#comment-1410585 Sun, 19 Sep 2021 06:22:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=129887#comment-1410585 Such interesting reading!! My link to Ratcliffe is a family ancestor Evan Daniel b. 1665- d. 1704 His death record states he was a Ratcliffe Mariner, which got me looking for more information!

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