https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/06/a-walk-in-long-forgotten-london/ 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, 03 Nov 2017 16:48:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/06/a-walk-in-long-forgotten-london/#comment-1177952 Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:48:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157276#comment-1177952 superb!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/06/a-walk-in-long-forgotten-london/#comment-1149116 Tue, 09 May 2017 21:25:52 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157276#comment-1149116 Thank you Gentle Author.]]> ABSOLUTELY LOVE THESE ! Help with a course I am doing right now on the History of London. WHAT A GREAT CITY ❤️ Thank you Gentle Author.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/06/a-walk-in-long-forgotten-london/#comment-1148861 Sun, 07 May 2017 16:36:06 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157276#comment-1148861 You’ve done it to me again!
So taken was I with this blog (as others in the past) I have managed to track down and purchase all six volumes.
I cannot thank you enough for bringing this edition to my attention.
Keep up your excellent work
Kind regards

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/06/a-walk-in-long-forgotten-london/#comment-1148738 Sat, 06 May 2017 17:35:15 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157276#comment-1148738 Isnt Prince Henry’s house still there? Or am I muddled up. Great photos.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/06/a-walk-in-long-forgotten-london/#comment-1148688 Sat, 06 May 2017 08:04:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157276#comment-1148688 What great pictures, so detailed that the lack of photography in that era scarcely seems to matter. I could study these for hours and may well do over the next few days. More please!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/06/a-walk-in-long-forgotten-london/#comment-1148686 Sat, 06 May 2017 07:45:20 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157276#comment-1148686 The illustrations/plates indicate an organised society for that time. The buildings shown were largely stone structures, a lesson ‘well learnt’ after the great Fire of London Sep 1666. Read Sam Pepys Diary he tells us all about that. He was the king of the firebreaks and first to tell the King that’s good PR. All the houses then were wooden structures. The old medieval city including Pudding Lane and old St Paul’s Cathedral were burnt out. Thank you GA for showing us 18th C London. Poet John

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/06/a-walk-in-long-forgotten-london/#comment-1148684 Sat, 06 May 2017 07:24:36 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157276#comment-1148684 So grateful for a look at London’s past. Lovely pictures, incidentally the shelters on the old London Bridge can still be seen in Victoria Park, as a baby I lived in Cadogan Terrace and they were among my first memories.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/06/a-walk-in-long-forgotten-london/#comment-1148680 Sat, 06 May 2017 06:50:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157276#comment-1148680 The constant of London is perpetual change

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/06/a-walk-in-long-forgotten-london/#comment-1148662 Sat, 06 May 2017 00:45:00 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157276#comment-1148662 My head tells me: poor diet, parlous health, hideous dentistry, awful odours (and no sanitation), heart-breaking poverty and casual cruelty to man and beast alike. My heart says something else entirely.

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