Comments on: Strange And Terrible News! https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/30/strange-and-terrible-news/ 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, 03 Apr 2018 21:18:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: David Irwin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/30/strange-and-terrible-news/#comment-1202141 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 21:18:12 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=144868#comment-1202141 I went to a school in Weybridge, Surrey called Wallop in the 1950s. The head master was Colonel Biss who used to sign his name Bifs.

]]> By: Stephen Foster https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/30/strange-and-terrible-news/#comment-1087095 Mon, 02 May 2016 19:07:42 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=144868#comment-1087095 Gentle Author, could you please explain to me, if you know, why the letter “S” is formed as two different characters, the modern looking S and the one that is similar to the letter “f”.
I see them both uses in this article most foul, but there doesn’t seem to be rhyme nor reafon, (misspelling intended), to their usage.
Many thanks
Stephen

]]> By: Valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/30/strange-and-terrible-news/#comment-1086999 Sat, 30 Apr 2016 17:42:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=144868#comment-1086999 Really strange and horrible! Valerie

]]> By: John McVey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/30/strange-and-terrible-news/#comment-1086995 Sat, 30 Apr 2016 15:08:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=144868#comment-1086995 …with all his praestigious devices, to make us the sad actors of our own ruine…

amazing language.

Valerie Paynter’s suggestion of a cover-up for rotten meat makes sense, btw. wouldn’t have thought of it on my own.

]]> By: Valerie Paynter https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/30/strange-and-terrible-news/#comment-1086994 Sat, 30 Apr 2016 12:06:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=144868#comment-1086994 ….and this huge cover-up for rotten meat being fed to people may have cost a neighbour their life as witch-burning was common then! No forensic testing existed to identify specific arsenic or ratsbane!

]]> By: Teresa Stokes https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/30/strange-and-terrible-news/#comment-1086993 Sat, 30 Apr 2016 10:56:48 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=144868#comment-1086993 What a terrible way to die. Ratsbane is an old word for arsenic.

]]> By: Caroline Bottomley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/04/30/strange-and-terrible-news/#comment-1086988 Sat, 30 Apr 2016 07:04:58 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=144868#comment-1086988 Blimey!

How interesting that various people would come round and eat and /or buy their dinner from them.

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