Adam Dant’s New Cries Of Spittelfields
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Contributing Artist Adam Dant sent me his latest print, a limited edition hand-tinted woodcut of the NEW CRIES OF SPITTELFIELDS that he finished just last week, showing many of the familiar street characters of our beloved East End neighbourhood. If you would like to buy a copy, drop the artist a line: Adamdant@adamdant.com
Meanwhile, you can attend my illustrated lecture at the Society of Genealogists in Clerkenwell this Thursday 15th March at 2pm, showing images of itinerant traders over the last four hundred years. Click here for tickets
Cries of London 1600, reproduced from Samuel Pepys’ Album © Magdalene College, Cambridge (Click this image to enlarge)
You may like to take a look at
H.W.Petherick’s London Characters
John Thomson’s Street Life in London
Aunt Busy Bee’s New London Cries
Marcellus Laroon’s Cries of London
More John Player’s Cries of London
William Nicholson’s London Types
Francis Wheatley’s Cries of London
John Thomas Smith’s Vagabondiana of 1817
Thomas Rowlandson’s Lower Orders
CLICK TO BUY A COPY OF THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S CRIES OF LONDON FOR £20
Now that I like.
These made me chuckle. Nicely observed. I haven’t actually come across any balloon abusers yet but presumably it’s a way to a cheap high?
I went to Spitalfield High School. Born and lived in the East End, 1930-1950
How about the wagoners who went through the street singing:
Any old iron, any old iron
Any, any, iron old iron.
Remember the tune but not the rest of the words.
I also know a number of old Cockney Songs i.e.
Muver wos bathing the baby
Knees up Mother Brown
She was por but she was honest
There i wos, waiting at the church
Oranges and lemons says the bells of St. Clements etc.
Gilda Haber, PhD
Cockney Girl
Some way I can advertise my book for sale on your site? Only $12 and shipping. Great reviews.