https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/23/a-hoxton-childhood-the-years-after/ 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, 25 Mar 2017 09:28:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/23/a-hoxton-childhood-the-years-after/#comment-1142914 Thu, 23 Mar 2017 10:40:03 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155463#comment-1142914 Hi GA, This looks like a most excellent venture- d’you think I could come down and draw the proceedings? Bex

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/23/a-hoxton-childhood-the-years-after/#comment-1142906 Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:30:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155463#comment-1142906 Thank you for the wonderful livelihoods written about on this web site, as if I extended my travel in time and space by the capacity of the writers history and love of humanity/culture. atk

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/23/a-hoxton-childhood-the-years-after/#comment-1142901 Thu, 23 Mar 2017 08:51:15 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155463#comment-1142901 The Joe McLaren woodcut of the van is fascinating:
“Larkswood 4060” – later split into LAR & COP ( COPpermill) in 1953/4
And the address in Billet Rd,- part of the local diaspora of cabinet-&-furniture makers in Walthamstow & around Tottenham Hale – having moved for the area near Cambridge Heath/London Fields, presumably.
The van looks like a post-WWII version of a Morris 10
( I drove one, once, a very long time ago – it wasn’t mine, btw )
Oh yes, current view of 234 Billet Road:
https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=81c475b5-fa44-4280-8811-fe23d3f4c04a&cp=skzvftgzxm9f&lvl=18&style=b&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027

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