Comments on: Nippers At The Museum of Childhood https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/02/28/nippers-at-the-museum-of-childhood/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 02 Mar 2017 01:37:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Margaret Grover https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/02/28/nippers-at-the-museum-of-childhood/#comment-1138937 Thu, 02 Mar 2017 01:37:51 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=154563#comment-1138937 The very poignant photograph of Jessica & Rosalie reminds me of a photograph of my grandmother (born in 1894 in country Western Australia) . It has inspired me to keep writing and researching her life. She was brought up by an aunt who sent her to the other side of Australia by herself for 6 years to be educated. I have been able to trace an oral history interview with he when she was in her eighties. Local history is wonderful.
I will be in London in May. Will the exhibition of Spitalfields Nippers still be on then?

]]> By: Jim McDermott https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/02/28/nippers-at-the-museum-of-childhood/#comment-1138571 Tue, 28 Feb 2017 09:14:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=154563#comment-1138571 ‘Once Jessica & Rosalie come alive to us as individuals, we are left to contemplate the moment of stillness that was captured for eternity by Horace Warner in 1900.’

If one were attempting to rationalize the discipline (or craft) of local history, the above would do quite nicely.

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