Comments on: The Weathervanes Of Old London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/08/10/the-weathervanes-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 Mon, 05 Feb 2018 13:42:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.3 By: Maribel https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/08/10/the-weathervanes-of-old-london/#comment-1194120 Mon, 05 Feb 2018 13:42:17 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=148311#comment-1194120 Thanks a lot for this article, I live in Santiago de Compostela (Spain) but I love London and the weaher-vanes , I don´t know why, maybe since I was four years old and I walked with my father on the streets of London. My parents were inmigrants in the 60’s

]]> By: Diana Buck https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/08/10/the-weathervanes-of-old-london/#comment-1101368 Sun, 14 Aug 2016 21:36:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=148311#comment-1101368 I had heard of summers spent hop picking by East Enders.
Until the Darling Buds of May, I hadn’t given it much thought.
I thank you for the photo’s. It’s always wonderful to see period pictures
working class people going about their daily life.
I wonder if family members recognize their own ?
D.
PS I grew up on a farm. The work was hard. Hot and dirty in the summer.
Cold and dirty in the winter….but the smell’s of fresh fruit and vegetables,
still lingers in my mind.

]]> By: Greg Tingey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/08/10/the-weathervanes-of-old-london/#comment-1100802 Fri, 12 Aug 2016 10:42:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=148311#comment-1100802 Did you know that there’s another superb Dragon on top of the church by Spa Road, Bermondsey?

]]> By: Nina Archer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/08/10/the-weathervanes-of-old-london/#comment-1100486 Wed, 10 Aug 2016 18:31:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=148311#comment-1100486 …… just – lovely, thankyou GA …..

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/08/10/the-weathervanes-of-old-london/#comment-1100401 Wed, 10 Aug 2016 10:52:35 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=148311#comment-1100401 Greetings from Boston,

GA, thank you for yet another tidbit about London history …

]]> By: Milo Bell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/08/10/the-weathervanes-of-old-london/#comment-1100395 Wed, 10 Aug 2016 10:28:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=148311#comment-1100395 Excellent set of photos and far preferable poring over them than risking life and limb dodging the traffic whilst craning ones neck into impossible positions.
Also put me in mind of that famous Carly Simon track “You’re so vane.”

]]> By: Joan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/08/10/the-weathervanes-of-old-london/#comment-1100378 Wed, 10 Aug 2016 09:37:17 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=148311#comment-1100378 Spitalfields Life should have its own symbolic spire with a golden cat, claws outstretched against the property developers who encircle it.

]]> By: Valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/08/10/the-weathervanes-of-old-london/#comment-1100331 Wed, 10 Aug 2016 05:56:01 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=148311#comment-1100331 Wonderful collection. How fitting that the dragon is representing the City of London, which is so greedily ‘burning’ Spitalfields and the East End to engorge itself more. Valerie

]]> By: Lisa R. Hirsch https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/08/10/the-weathervanes-of-old-london/#comment-1100286 Wed, 10 Aug 2016 00:24:02 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=148311#comment-1100286 The library next door to the Whitechapel Gallery has a fine weathervane.

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