Comments on: Nippers At The National Portrait Gallery https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/03/14/nippers-at-the-national-portrait-gallery/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 16 Mar 2015 23:12:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Jackie Keith https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/03/14/nippers-at-the-national-portrait-gallery/#comment-889363 Mon, 16 Mar 2015 23:12:24 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=131561#comment-889363 Very much looking forward to the National Portrait Gallery lecture, and thank you so much for the Save Norton Folgate exhibition too.

]]> By: Philip Hurd-Wood https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/03/14/nippers-at-the-national-portrait-gallery/#comment-885561 Sat, 14 Mar 2015 12:03:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=131561#comment-885561 I was given the book for Christmas and my heart broke to see these lovely children who knew nothing of good food, decent warm clothing and housing. Only a few years after the photos were taken the boys would have been expected to lay down their lives for a country that had previously neglected them and regarded them as the undeserving poor………

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/03/14/nippers-at-the-national-portrait-gallery/#comment-885551 Sat, 14 Mar 2015 11:43:21 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=131561#comment-885551 Very special! Would love to get to the National Portrait Gallery … Have a good time!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Vicki Lovell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/03/14/nippers-at-the-national-portrait-gallery/#comment-885406 Sat, 14 Mar 2015 10:06:12 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=131561#comment-885406 I love the photographs and would love to add this book to my growing East End London collection, as a tribute to my mother’s Jewish East End London ancestry. Cheers

]]> By: Vicki Lovell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/03/14/nippers-at-the-national-portrait-gallery/#comment-885388 Sat, 14 Mar 2015 09:59:51 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=131561#comment-885388 omg what absolutely devastatingly evocative photographs, my heart broke and melted at the same time. Thank you for sharing these. I had no idea such images existed. Thank you

]]> By: Victoria https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/03/14/nippers-at-the-national-portrait-gallery/#comment-885259 Sat, 14 Mar 2015 08:47:12 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=131561#comment-885259 How wonderful. The nippers being aired in another gallery!

]]> By: Valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/03/14/nippers-at-the-national-portrait-gallery/#comment-885036 Sat, 14 Mar 2015 06:45:33 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=131561#comment-885036 I would love to be there for the lecture at the National Portrait Gallery. A great achievement! Valerie

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