Comments on: The Mystery of Isabelle Barker’s Hat https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/02/23/the-mystery-of-isabelle-barkers-hat/ 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, 09 Jul 2018 14:40:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Philip Harris https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/02/23/the-mystery-of-isabelle-barkers-hat/#comment-1215612 Mon, 09 Jul 2018 14:40:06 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=154473#comment-1215612 Hello
I have just seen this article about Isobel Barker trying to research my great great grandmother Isobel Leah Barker daughter of the mentioned Daniel Barker.
My own grandmother was Leah Isobel but preferred to be called Isobel.
Though my Isobel was not Jewish she converted to marry my Great great grandfather Abraham Da Costa and was married at Bevis Marks synagogue with her father Daniel as a witness.
I think it shows how well both communities mixed and religious tolerance respected

]]> By: vanda https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/02/23/the-mystery-of-isabelle-barkers-hat/#comment-1137604 Fri, 24 Feb 2017 05:48:10 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=154473#comment-1137604 What a wonderful story. I would have loved to have met this lady (Isabelle Barker) and to hear her stories of yesteryear.

]]> By: Margaret https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/02/23/the-mystery-of-isabelle-barkers-hat/#comment-1137355 Thu, 23 Feb 2017 10:56:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=154473#comment-1137355 To quote “Although she was an East End person,” explained Fay affectionately,“she always looked very smart, quite refined, and she spoke correctly, definitely not a cockney.’

I come from an East End family and they were refined, smart, highly intelligent and spoke correctly. My mother is a cockney, born at St Barts in 1925. My mother is very well spoken. Still is in her 90s

One must not confuse being poor with lack of refinements and culture.

]]> By: Bailey Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/02/23/the-mystery-of-isabelle-barkers-hat/#comment-1137353 Thu, 23 Feb 2017 10:53:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=154473#comment-1137353 An interesting story of unlikely friendships.

I can see how the hat would double as a Georgian cap but, as soon as I clasped eyes on it, I knew it was a C20th woman’s hat. Perhaps because I love ‘vintage’ clothes, though I rarely wear them these days.

What interests me is how designers continue to pillage the past for inspiration and repackage older designe for more modern markets, as well as Denis Severs’ wonderful talent for creating the past from more recent items . His house showed me how intention can supersede authenticity in recreating important truths about the past. I had to fight back tears in the attic room In Folgate Street.

]]> By: John Barrett https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/02/23/the-mystery-of-isabelle-barkers-hat/#comment-1137340 Thu, 23 Feb 2017 10:12:20 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=154473#comment-1137340 This has a charming human story line today. Every hat can tell a story perhaps a military one hung up in the Gentlemen’s Club could have been worn by a war hero with a VC who !knows. Or happiness for the Mad Hatter at his tea party (Lewis Carroll). Hats are back specially woollen one’s they put you in the comfort zone. What is shown here today and in previous blogs, this is a real community with a loving heart, as shown by Fay, Isabelle and Dennis. It seems Isabelle worshiped at Christ Church Spitalfields. Poet John

]]> By: Caroline Bottomley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/02/23/the-mystery-of-isabelle-barkers-hat/#comment-1137316 Thu, 23 Feb 2017 08:14:00 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=154473#comment-1137316 What a great story, thanks GA 🙂

]]> By: Valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/02/23/the-mystery-of-isabelle-barkers-hat/#comment-1137293 Thu, 23 Feb 2017 06:22:30 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=154473#comment-1137293 Great story about a wonderful person. Valerie

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