Comments on: Luke Clennell’s London Melodies https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/09/19/luke-clennells-london-melodies/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 19 Sep 2015 09:55:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Gilbert O'Brien https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/09/19/luke-clennells-london-melodies/#comment-1023947 Sat, 19 Sep 2015 09:55:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=138476#comment-1023947 These have all been extremely interesting, and entertaining. I had not thought they were so rare or unusual as I have a couple of similar volumes and thought that surely, if I had one or two, everybody must have a couple. The volumes I have are:

1. Portrait & Times of Remarkable & Eccentric Characters (Vol I only) pub by J Arnett, 5, Smith Square, London (18th c)

2. The Book of Trades or Library of the Useful Arts, Fourth Edition, pub 1811 in London for R. Phillips

Both are illustrated. Are they of interest, use or value?

Gilbert O’Brien

]]> By: Jacqueline Sarsby https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/09/19/luke-clennells-london-melodies/#comment-1023926 Sat, 19 Sep 2015 09:15:02 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=138476#comment-1023926 Ah yes, this is us hawkers to the life: ragged, filthy, toothless: thank goodness we pedlars have got better dentists, bathrooms and charity shops nowadays. And thank goodness they haven’t managed to stop us selling our wares in the streets!

]]> By: Nicholas Sack https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/09/19/luke-clennells-london-melodies/#comment-1023892 Sat, 19 Sep 2015 08:02:00 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=138476#comment-1023892 Gentle Author – on the subject of Cries of London, I wonder if you know the book ‘London’s Pavement Pounders’, comprising descriptions and sketches by Geoffrey Fletcher, published by Hutchinson in 1967. Included are chestnut sellers, sandwich-board men, pavement artists, spoon players, escapologists, tricksters, blind buskers, scavengers…

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