Comments on: Highdays & Holidays In Old London

By: Shawdian

Shawdian — Fri, 26 May 2017 15:06:53 +0000

What a marvellous collection of photographs each with their own individual story encourages me to research those events of which I am not familiar. What a shame we do not appreciate nor make full use of our Towns and Cities as we used to do. Moving pictures and technology opened up the world making it a smaller place when it comes to ‘Getting Outhere’ experiencing public gatherings for whatever reasons. I loved those days when all my family were together in the huge crowds for a relaxing and often a time of learning something new where we all went home feeling we had ‘achieved something’. Well done GA for sharing another superb collection from your treasure box of curiosities of life, we need these.

By: G

Thu, 25 May 2017 20:19:31 +0000

Is the Doggett’s Coat & Badge Race, c.1920. picture reversed?

It is the Rennie bridge but if looking North shouldn’t Fishmonger’s hall be on the other side.

By: Gary Arber

Gary Arber — Thu, 25 May 2017 11:42:19 +0000

There is a memory from my youth, Walls ice cream from the refrigerated box tricycle.
He rang his bell, called “Wallseys they’re lovely, You could get a penny fruit ice in a packet like the modern Toblerone, if you only had a halfpenny he would cut one in half for you.
Gary

By: Helen Breen

Helen Breen — Thu, 25 May 2017 11:13:02 +0000

Greetings from Boston,

GA, thanks for culling such a vibrant variety of photos from Bishopgate’s wonderful collections. Particularly liked “The Foundling Hospital Anti-Litter Band, c.1930.”

Also, thoughts and prayers from across the pond to all in England for the atrocity of this week…

By: Barbara Hague

Barbara Hague — Thu, 25 May 2017 09:39:36 +0000

Is the “Spotted Dog” still there?
Used to go there many years ago for their traditional pudding “Spotted Dick”

By: Jim McDermott

Jim McDermott — Thu, 25 May 2017 09:31:21 +0000

Blimey, Chelsea was a lot prettier back then! It takes this sort of collection to make one realise how television and then computers revolutionized (actually, almost snuffed out) the communal experience. And it’s good to see the police not taking any chances with those dangerous schoolboys – why bother with the avuncular clip ’round the ear when you can wade in knee-first!

By: Greg Tingey

Greg Tingey — Thu, 25 May 2017 06:56:11 +0000

The photo of The Spotted Dog must be after 1935-6 as Trolleybus wires are visible!

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 25 May 2017 05:48:26 +0000

Dear GA … touring Europe by train with Bertie. A year to the day since my course with you. Looking forward each morning to wonderful blogs like this one. Times when I was young when the world was England. Everywhere else was beyond my reach or indeed my interest. I had been born in England.