Comments on: Old Signs Of Spitalfields

By: Michael Cranfield

Michael Cranfield — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 09:06:47 +0000

What an interesting hobby!. Mine is genealogy: my direct ancestor Isaac Cranfield (c1777-1862) was a throwster of some repute and lived most of his life at no 3 Hare St, trading as Isaac Cranfield & Sons. Jeremiah Cranfield was a close neighbour on Hare Street but I have yet to find positive evidence of their relationship. I mention this in case it will be of use to you but I rather doubt that, given the nature of their business, throwsters would have hung signs on their walls.

By: Phil Maxwell

Phil Maxwell — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 18:00:46 +0000

Great!

By: Tania Lopes

Tania Lopes — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 18:56:20 +0000

Também tenho esse gosto pela conservação de “memórias”, há aquelas que formaram nosso caráter, e é tão bom encontrá-las fora de nós. Sou literalmente apaixonada por esses “símbolos”. Um beijo!

By: Joyce

Joyce — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 00:31:41 +0000

I absolutely love your articles. As an .English lady from .Essex, resident in Kentucky, I get very home/England sick. Your daily treasures remind me of the London I only partly knew, but wish I knew completely. I’d love to return home, but it’s not possible with all the changes. Even when I visit, no G P will see me……it saddens me.
Please continue your wonderful work……many of us just love it. Vand, thank you.

By: Beryl Happe

Beryl Happe — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:36:52 +0000

I was leafleting a road and came upon a house with a beautiful sign, all done in bronze it boldly stated ‘Ladies of ill repute not welcome’. I hastily beat my retreat just in case.

By: Beryl Happe

Beryl Happe — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:32:36 +0000

My mother always called Cheshire street, Hare street, and I always wondered why. This is the first reference to it I have ever seen.

By: Jennifer Griffith Vincent

Jennifer Griffith Vincent — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 14:37:44 +0000

Thank you yet again, both for the post and the stewardship. The former is ‘so evocative’, as another poster mentions. I’m looking at an image of my great-grandmother’s baptismal record from 1862, with the family residence recorded as Hare Street, and the father’s occupation silk dealer.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 13:27:09 +0000

Thank goodness someone cares so much! These are all so evocative-the last trace before obscurity. Strangely sad but also really comforting, thank you! (Will be more diligent in recording ones I see now:)

By: Helen Breen

Helen Breen — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 09:37:26 +0000

Greetings from Boston,

GA, wow, you are observant. Thanks for sharing these vestiges from the past. Food for thought:

“In many cases, the people whom these notices address are long gone, so unless I am there to pay attention to these redundant placards and grant them dignity, they can only talk to themselves like crazy old folk rambling in the dark.”

By: Leana Pooley

Leana Pooley — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 09:08:06 +0000

I hope that Mr Root and H. L. Jones are up on a cloud feeling well pleased that their names have lived on for so long.