Comments on: At Arthur Beale https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/02/14/at-arthur-beale/ 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, 14 Dec 2020 07:46:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/02/14/at-arthur-beale/#comment-1361235 Mon, 14 Dec 2020 07:46:10 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=143250#comment-1361235 I love specialist shops like this and it was one of many which we were sent out to explore when I did my course in Display Design back in the Seventies. The college shared a building with St Martin’s in Charing Cross Road and at that time there were plenty of really useful suppliers still based in Covent Garden including specialist canvas shops like Russell and Chapel, and theatrical paint suppliers Brodie and Middleton.

I’m so pleased that Arthur Beale has managed to see off the developers and I was interested to read that Flints have taken it over – hurrah! We still use Flints theatrical chandlers a lot but unfortunately their inner London premises has fallen victim to the rampant developers and so it is no longer possible to browse through their big shop testing out brushes, being tempted by all the different paints and glitters etc! But they have a brilliantly informative and chatty catalogue giving lots of useful ‘goss’ about their products, and their online service is very efficient so they should continue to be the best suppliers in the business.

]]> By: Liz Campbell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/02/14/at-arthur-beale/#comment-1082549 Sun, 20 Mar 2016 10:01:58 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=143250#comment-1082549 What a wondreful trip down memory lane,as a child my mother would take me into a similar shop in Dartmouth,she was skipper of the local sea rangers and we would spend days aboard the sea ranger MTB moored by Old Mill Creek.That was in the days when boats smelt of varnish and rope,bet this shop smells just the same

]]> By: John https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/02/14/at-arthur-beale/#comment-1080302 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 18:37:20 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=143250#comment-1080302 A brilliant write up?

It’s one of those shops you can just enjoy being in even if you don’t want to buy anything … Not that I’ve ever been able to do that.

]]> By: Caroline Bousfield https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/02/14/at-arthur-beale/#comment-1079919 Mon, 15 Feb 2016 23:06:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=143250#comment-1079919 Having had several broken lines, I bought rope for a washing line here about 30 years ago and it is still going strong! though has unfortunately lost its colour.
I also bought soap for use in sea water.

]]> By: mlleparadis https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/02/14/at-arthur-beale/#comment-1079868 Sun, 14 Feb 2016 19:37:36 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=143250#comment-1079868 LOVE the photos here. it’s always so cool to find such places of such purpose and utility. makes a person dream of other very hands-on lives.

]]> By: Sue https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/02/14/at-arthur-beale/#comment-1079859 Sun, 14 Feb 2016 15:29:46 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=143250#comment-1079859 An amazing place. Glad somebody else thought of Fools and Horses too.

]]> By: Roger Carr https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/02/14/at-arthur-beale/#comment-1079856 Sun, 14 Feb 2016 14:35:44 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=143250#comment-1079856 * * * * * Five stars!

]]> By: Ros https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/02/14/at-arthur-beale/#comment-1079847 Sun, 14 Feb 2016 11:41:21 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=143250#comment-1079847 Great story and pictures. Good for Alasdair Flint! Long may he and the shop survive, barge poles at the ready against developers and other untouchables.

]]> By: Linda Granfield https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/02/14/at-arthur-beale/#comment-1079845 Sun, 14 Feb 2016 11:28:24 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=143250#comment-1079845 A magical place—love the computer on the worn counter and the old clock on the wall.
Time has stopped for no man (person).
Here’s to another 400 years!

]]> By: Emma https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/02/14/at-arthur-beale/#comment-1079840 Sun, 14 Feb 2016 09:20:36 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=143250#comment-1079840 Another wonderful curious find gentle authour. One of my favourite shops in the world is the ships chandlers in Bembridge, Isle of Wight. They are a satisfying as a really good old fashioned stationers. This one looks marvellous. Part shop selling useful things and part museum. Ideal. I shall definitely pay a visit.

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