https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/12/10/signs-of-old-london/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:01:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/12/10/signs-of-old-london/#comment-1077366 Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:01:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=141423#comment-1077366 Interesting site, I use to have a pitch in spitalfieds market, weekdays and or sunday, I dont like what they have done to the building now, area is much improved now compared to years ago,pity city is crammed with awful buildings.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/12/10/signs-of-old-london/#comment-1059838 Sun, 13 Dec 2015 08:19:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=141423#comment-1059838 The Bull and Mouth sign is the Museum of London collections
http://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/435886.html
and in the rotunda garden you can see this amazing version
http://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/bull-and-mouth-inn-at-museum-of-london

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/12/10/signs-of-old-london/#comment-1058981 Thu, 10 Dec 2015 18:55:55 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=141423#comment-1058981 Another really interesting post, I love the ones about the history of London as they help me to visualise how all my many London ancestors must have lived, some may even have been around when those signs from the 17th century first went up. Quite a thought!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/12/10/signs-of-old-london/#comment-1058965 Thu, 10 Dec 2015 18:19:24 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=141423#comment-1058965 I like the Bull and Mouth.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/12/10/signs-of-old-london/#comment-1058775 Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:35:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=141423#comment-1058775 Another lovely article. NB Three squirrels symbol was Barclays, via Goslings Bank. Some Barclays banks outside of London still have them, eg York I believe.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/12/10/signs-of-old-london/#comment-1058740 Thu, 10 Dec 2015 08:37:47 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=141423#comment-1058740 Paris had the same problem with signs: as the city grew signs became larger and more dangrous. Balzac describes how people put up signs bearing no relation to the business as, the more peculiar they were, the more likely it would be that customers would find the shop, note his story ‘The Cat and Racket’. The cat was a stuffed one! ‘U’ (At the Sign of) is still in use in Prague.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/12/10/signs-of-old-london/#comment-1058711 Thu, 10 Dec 2015 06:34:17 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=141423#comment-1058711 A wonderful collection of signs. Valerie

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/12/10/signs-of-old-london/#comment-1058704 Thu, 10 Dec 2015 06:12:52 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=141423#comment-1058704 How fascination, how beautiful and how strangely comforting.
Thanks GA, sterling stuff!
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]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/12/10/signs-of-old-london/#comment-1058672 Thu, 10 Dec 2015 03:33:42 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=141423#comment-1058672 Lovely art.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/12/10/signs-of-old-london/#comment-1058633 Thu, 10 Dec 2015 00:45:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=141423#comment-1058633 I am sure you know that Ye Three Squirrels sign belongs to Barclays Goslings Branch (not NatWest). I think the site has some connection with Twinings Bank, the tea people, who are at 215 Strand with the narrowest shop front? being simply their door which is, or was, next door to NatWest Law Courts Branch at 217 Strand (now a Pret Coffee shop).
This post is a great read. Thanks.

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