https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/01/10/east-end-vernacular-at-abbott-holder/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 14 Jan 2018 11:39:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/01/10/east-end-vernacular-at-abbott-holder/#comment-1191520 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 11:39:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162736#comment-1191520 This was in fact a book by EP, published in 1968. However, I note a comment on Pinterest: ‘It was always a running joke in our house when the question of what to name a new kid or pet we would all shout “Eric Partridge!”‘

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/01/10/east-end-vernacular-at-abbott-holder/#comment-1191116 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 23:33:48 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162736#comment-1191116 Gentle Author, did Henry Silk do a watercolour of the greenhouses at Victoria Park?

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/01/10/east-end-vernacular-at-abbott-holder/#comment-1191077 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:23:12 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162736#comment-1191077 The comment above re Eric Partridge reminds me of one of the most amusing titles of a book that we have ever had in our shop. It reads Name Your Child Eric Partridge.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/01/10/east-end-vernacular-at-abbott-holder/#comment-1191037 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 09:38:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162736#comment-1191037 On the first floor of this building, from 1928-31, the great slang lexicographer Eric Partridge ran his publishing imprint, the Scholartis (‘Scholars and Artists’) Press. The venture failed – the Depression – but EP had already ventured into slang and the rest, at least for those who note such things, is lexicographical history. (PS. I want to campaign for a blue plaque, but the arrangement of windows may make it impossible to site it).

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