Comments on: A Drink At The Hoop & Grapes https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/16/a-drink-at-the-hoop-grapes/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 18 Mar 2017 11:38:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Phyllis https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/16/a-drink-at-the-hoop-grapes/#comment-1142257 Sat, 18 Mar 2017 11:38:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155086#comment-1142257 I must see the Hoop & Grapes in person!! Checking flights to LHR.

]]> By: Debra Matheney https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/16/a-drink-at-the-hoop-grapes/#comment-1141953 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:52:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155086#comment-1141953 Lovely story! I nearly had my visit to Dennis Severs’ house ruined by talkative folks. Sorry, Bailey, but the rule is not to talk so as to really get into the atmosphere of the place and be able to hear the sounds Dennis wants us to hear. Touring the house was the most moving experience ever, a true trip back in time.

]]> By: Phil Maxwell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/16/a-drink-at-the-hoop-grapes/#comment-1141912 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 10:12:00 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155086#comment-1141912 Lovely pub.

]]> By: Paul Ridgway https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/16/a-drink-at-the-hoop-grapes/#comment-1141901 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 09:08:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155086#comment-1141901 I nearly had my chips at Aldgate the other morning.
For 40 years I had always crossed at the lights outside the Tube when coming from the station.
If no more traffic was coming from my left, the east, off I went
until there was hooting, tyre smoke, invective as car(s) came to a rapid and noisy halt to my right
from where none had come before.

Imagine, all that life unlived.

]]> By: Paul Ridgway https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/16/a-drink-at-the-hoop-grapes/#comment-1141900 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 09:01:21 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155086#comment-1141900 Are you sure that this is an insurance plate from 1782 adorning the frontage?
Would not ‘ StB A ‘ indicate St Botolph’s Aldgate, the parish within which the tavern stands?
So it marks a parish boundary.

]]> By: Malcolm https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/16/a-drink-at-the-hoop-grapes/#comment-1141891 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 08:21:40 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155086#comment-1141891 I have spent many a happy hour (and many a shilling!) in the Hoop. We used to go there every Christmas for drinks and plates of very tasty home-made sandwiches. It was, and still is, a remarkable building, a survivor of fires, wars and not least, voracious developers. Aldgate used to be so much more interesting than the mess that has resulted from years of terrible planning that has seen all but a few of the historic buildings and streets erased and replaced with carbuncles and idiotic road systems. Gardiner’s Corner was a landmark until it was torn down in the name of progress. We can only hope that the venerable old Hoop and Grapes continues to survive in the face of the most brutal destruction program that has taken place in London since the old City gates were demolished in the 18th century.

]]> By: Juliet https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/16/a-drink-at-the-hoop-grapes/#comment-1141889 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 08:16:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155086#comment-1141889 I wonder if the plate in the penultimate picture is a parish boundary marker of some kind?
“St BA” could be St Botolph (without) Aldgate.

]]> By: Valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/16/a-drink-at-the-hoop-grapes/#comment-1141878 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 07:02:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155086#comment-1141878 I am happy to see that one landmark of my childhood is still there! Valerie

]]> By: Bailey Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/16/a-drink-at-the-hoop-grapes/#comment-1141876 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 06:49:07 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155086#comment-1141876 How amazing these buildings have survived. I recognise David as the theatrically stern custodian from the Dennis Severs House who bade us to shush as we entered. Bossy as this seems, it really did give my friend and I such a lot to share and mull afterwards as we compared our personal experiences of the house.

]]> By: Caroline Bottomley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/16/a-drink-at-the-hoop-grapes/#comment-1141868 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 06:13:33 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155086#comment-1141868 I’m going to that skinny waif!
Love those windows

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