Comments on: The Publican & The Historian https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/11/12/the-publican-the-historian/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 12 Oct 2018 10:50:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Nicola J https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/11/12/the-publican-the-historian/#comment-1231061 Fri, 12 Oct 2018 10:50:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=151470#comment-1231061 The Paul’s Head was at No 1 Crispin Street up until I think the 1940s. I am just wondering whether No 1 might have been at the junction with Brushfield Street, where currently The English Restaurant is situated. Searching in vain for a photograph of it!

]]> By: dar https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/11/12/the-publican-the-historian/#comment-1116026 Sun, 13 Nov 2016 13:46:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=151470#comment-1116026 Re:’Big Jean& Esso Blue’ a search of ‘kerosene for health’ yielded this:
KEROSENE – a Universal Healer
by Walter Last
Turpentine and petroleum distillates similar to kerosene have been used medicinally since ancient times and are still being used as folk remedies up to the present. They were used in ancient Babylon to treat stomach problems, inflammations and ulcers. The process of distilling crude oil/petroleum into hydrocarbon fractions was first described in the ninth century in Persia.
The use of these petroleum products is most widespread in poorer countries, including Russia, Eastern Europe and Africa. .. The most common applications are for infections and infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, cancer, arthritis and rheumatic diseases in general.
Even the Rockefellers supposedly started their fortune by selling kerosene as a cancer cure before they found that chemotherapy was more lucrative…
http://www.health-science-spirit.com/kero.htm
as well:
Turpentine and kerosene have been used as natural remedies for a variety of health problems for generations! Perhaps your great-grandmother used turpentine for a yearly “cleansing” for your grandpa when he was a boy. Maybe your great aunt used it for her rheumatism or to cure a nagging cough. While the thought of using paint brush cleaner sounds harsh and foolish, turpentine could be classified as an herbal remedy…
http://www.earthclinic.com/remedies/turpentine-kerosene.html
as well,
a mate from Plymouth, recalled how a girlfriend would only eat the seeds of an apple. Here’s why: http://www.cancerproducts.com/VITAMIN-B17-REMOVES-CANCER.html
So it seems it’s not just animals that have an innate knowledge of the cure for what ails them…cheers

]]> By: Jude https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/11/12/the-publican-the-historian/#comment-1115925 Sat, 12 Nov 2016 20:35:48 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=151470#comment-1115925 Xmas is a good excuse to treat myself! Sounds a great book, i adore Dan Cruikshank and all his television programmes and his books an added bonus. Thank you gentle author…

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/11/12/the-publican-the-historian/#comment-1115908 Sat, 12 Nov 2016 17:43:53 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=151470#comment-1115908 Seems to be a fine Book!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: david donoghue https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/11/12/the-publican-the-historian/#comment-1115900 Sat, 12 Nov 2016 16:12:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=151470#comment-1115900 A superb book. Best ever history of the area, coupled with special insight into its character and the characters that have enlivened it.

]]> By: Valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/11/12/the-publican-the-historian/#comment-1115898 Sat, 12 Nov 2016 15:53:38 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=151470#comment-1115898 Friendship is one of the thing which can help us through these difficult times when the world is going crazy, making false choices and seemingly dragging us back to times of nationalism, war and hate. Valerie

]]> By: Shawdian https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/11/12/the-publican-the-historian/#comment-1115882 Sat, 12 Nov 2016 12:35:33 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=151470#comment-1115882 I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE “GENTLE AUTHOR” FOR ALL THE DIFFERENT SUBJECT’S THE AUTHOR WORKS HARD (a labour of love) TO BRING TO OUR
VERY HONOURED EMAIL BOXES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD EACH & EVERY
MORNING JUST AFTER 6.15am, AS THE AUTHOR COME RAIN OR SHINE PLANS
YET ANOTHER FULL PACKED DAY, TRAILING THE STREETS OF THE AUTHORS
BELOVED LONDON TO FIND YET MORE TREASURES TO SHARE WITH DEVOTED
GENTLE AUTHOR READERS WHOM HAVE BEEN WITH THIS SPECIAL AUTHOR
FROM DAY ONE.

I HAVE LEARNT MORE ABOUT THE CITY OF LONDON & IT’S PEOPLE – REAL LONDON PEOPLE, THROUGH THE HARD WORK of THE GENTLE AUTHOR, THAN BY ANYTHING
ELSE AND “I AM VERY GRATEFUL”. IN WHAT OTHER WAY COULD WE LEARN SO
MUCH ABOUT LONDON “ALL FOR FREE” THAN “THE GENTLE AUTHOR”, WE DO NOT
EVEN NEED TO TRAWL THE INTERNET, EVERYTHING JUST CONVENIENTLY FALLS
INTO OUR EMAIL BOX IN THAT VERY ORDERED WAY INCLUDING FABULOUS PHOTOGRAPHY & NUMEROUS TEXT. THANK YOU, YOU SPECIAL GENTLE AUTHOR.

]]> By: Joan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/11/12/the-publican-the-historian/#comment-1115868 Sat, 12 Nov 2016 09:08:28 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=151470#comment-1115868 The ascension of the bland is a sad fact of Corporate London. But from what I have read about Sandra and what I have watched and read from Dan, they stand as human ballast against the insipid homogenisation of Spitalfields. I do hope that the Gentle Author and his friends can save Norton Folgate,

And if they cannot and this historic environment is sucked into the black hole of London no more then at least they tried. Their shared memories a testament to the past.

]]> By: John Barrett https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/11/12/the-publican-the-historian/#comment-1115863 Sat, 12 Nov 2016 08:30:30 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=151470#comment-1115863 Like Sandra I too believe in the power of friendship as a poet have written a poem called ‘Gold
Dust Friends’ reflecting this (copies available). It is a love which is powerful and can be a life saver. Sandra and Dan will know what I mean. Dan I have always been a fan, can we have some more from you sometime to please your e-friends. John

]]> By: stephanie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/11/12/the-publican-the-historian/#comment-1115857 Sat, 12 Nov 2016 07:54:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=151470#comment-1115857 Reader, if you are interested in Dan’s book, please also take at look at Eddie Johnson’s Tales From the Two Puddings pub in Stratford which resuscitates over 50 years a colourful array of east end souls told from a kind and most fair perspective.

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