Comments on: At Wood St Stables https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/03/12/at-wood-st-stables-x/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 24 Mar 2018 19:55:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/03/12/at-wood-st-stables-x/#comment-1200676 Sat, 24 Mar 2018 19:55:40 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164539#comment-1200676 Thankfully horses elsewhere in London still; the Household Cavalry horses stabled at Hyde Park, and the two white horses from the Royal Mews who collect and deliver the the Royal post twice daily. Beautiful creatures.

]]> By: Diana 'Reardon https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/03/12/at-wood-st-stables-x/#comment-1199190 Sun, 18 Mar 2018 13:42:51 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164539#comment-1199190 I always credit the aroma and (maybe????) a bit of horse seepage with the magnificent growth of the magnolia and swamp cypress in the grounds of St Mary Aldermanbury – right next door to the stables. Long may they continue to co-exist.

]]> By: Helen Donovan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/03/12/at-wood-st-stables-x/#comment-1198884 Thu, 15 Mar 2018 10:35:02 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164539#comment-1198884 Many years ago on a Sunday – before Sunday trading hours changed – the boys and girls of Wood Street mounted Police let me use their lavatory. I was walking around the City getting a little bit desperate and I happened to bump into them asking where the nearest loo was. Well they must have taken pity on me and so I followed them back to Wood Street stables.

I have ridden since I was a child anyway and have, on and off, always been around horses for my whole life so I am used to them.

It was a lovely experience to meet the horses and see where they lived and obviously quite an unexpected visit too.

Unsure whether anything like that would happen today, the world has changed so much since then. Besides, there are plenty of sandwich shops and pubs open now.

I love seeing the mounted Police whilst out and about in the City. I always go and say hello.

I gravitated towards the New York mounted Police when I visited last year. Both equally friendly and more than happy to chat about horses and their job.

]]> By: Peter Twist https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/03/12/at-wood-st-stables-x/#comment-1198781 Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:42:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164539#comment-1198781 At first I couldn’t understand why a small dog I occasionally walked into the little garden at the end of Aldermanbury became so agitated until I realised that it was the smell of the horses from inside the Wood Street Stables.

]]> By: Ade Callaghan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/03/12/at-wood-st-stables-x/#comment-1198678 Mon, 12 Mar 2018 20:40:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164539#comment-1198678 I used to pass these stables quite often and always fancied a peek inside. There was no mistaking the smell on a warm summers day.

]]> By: Mike Levy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/03/12/at-wood-st-stables-x/#comment-1198675 Mon, 12 Mar 2018 19:26:07 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164539#comment-1198675 Lovely!

]]> By: Teresa Clark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/03/12/at-wood-st-stables-x/#comment-1198663 Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:29:30 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164539#comment-1198663 Keep listening and reporting to those of us across the pond. I remember those sounds, along with a rag and bone man, in 1980s Kensington. Great article!

]]> By: Gary Arber https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/03/12/at-wood-st-stables-x/#comment-1198660 Mon, 12 Mar 2018 12:22:12 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164539#comment-1198660 A friend of mine used to visit the Bow stables with a barrow, they let her have manure for her tomatoes.
Gary

]]> By: Bex https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/03/12/at-wood-st-stables-x/#comment-1198657 Mon, 12 Mar 2018 10:03:11 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164539#comment-1198657 Greetings GA, think there may still be horses at Bow Road Police station as we often hear/see them in Bow and exactly as you say the clip clopping makes for a fine aural time machine! Behind the victorian police station, on Addington rd there’s a fantastical late 30s Moderne block with stables & flats above- every inch the perfect 30s ocean liner! Guess the architect was Gilbert Mackenzie Trench Anyway Id love to get a look inside

]]> By: VANDA HUMAN https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/03/12/at-wood-st-stables-x/#comment-1198655 Mon, 12 Mar 2018 08:36:20 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164539#comment-1198655 Beautiful horses and clean stables.

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