Comments on: The Gentle Author At The Society Of Genealogists https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/28/the-gentle-author-at-the-society-of-genealogists/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 01 Mar 2018 20:56:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/28/the-gentle-author-at-the-society-of-genealogists/#comment-1197557 Thu, 01 Mar 2018 20:56:57 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164316#comment-1197557 That Earl of Bridgewater had a lot to answer for, but what Clennell managed to produce between spells of insanity is truly amazing.

]]> By: Franinoz https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/28/the-gentle-author-at-the-society-of-genealogists/#comment-1197466 Wed, 28 Feb 2018 21:31:42 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164316#comment-1197466 Would you believe that in my childhood (I’m 71) there were still street sellers walking the streets of Sydney and calling their wares? There was the clothes prop man..”cloooothes PROPS!” and the rabbitoh. (Props are long pieces of wood used to keep the outside clothes lines high off the ground).

]]> By: James W https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/28/the-gentle-author-at-the-society-of-genealogists/#comment-1197441 Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:10:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164316#comment-1197441 These woodcuts are absolutely remarkable. Also quite poignant to me in a way, as I very recently discovered my step grandfather, originally a Dutch cigar maker who lived in Aldgate, ended up a hawker, of what I unfortunately don’t know. I also found out he died in City of London lunatic asylum. Poor people, hard times.

]]> By: Paul Loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/28/the-gentle-author-at-the-society-of-genealogists/#comment-1197425 Wed, 28 Feb 2018 13:40:50 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164316#comment-1197425 Dont forget the Jewish street sellers . My dad once told me there was a hot beigel seller who called around all the streets of Whitechapel with a barrow just after the first world war his call in Yiddish bellowed at the top of his voice was “heisse beigel!” (hot bagels!”) and the strret would fill up. There was also a street seller that came around selling old pith helmets from the Boer War and the kids that tried them on all caught scabies and ended up in the London hospital there was a row of them in the same ward. My dad was one of them

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/28/the-gentle-author-at-the-society-of-genealogists/#comment-1197420 Wed, 28 Feb 2018 11:42:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164316#comment-1197420 Trying to find the words…….and yet “vivid” doesn’t even begin to describe the intensity.
Not that this artist needs to be compared to ANY one……but I was reminded of the most tortured images by Goya. Each head seems like a death mask, each hunched shoulder looks ancient
and ghostly. An incredible procession of gritty survivors.

Amazing!

]]> By: Paul Phillips https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/28/the-gentle-author-at-the-society-of-genealogists/#comment-1197410 Wed, 28 Feb 2018 09:36:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164316#comment-1197410 Fantastic, I just sit in awe as to how these dear people eked out a living in those terrible times.

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