Comments on: Maureen Rose, Button Maker

By: Audrey

Audrey — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 23:18:21 +0000

Maureen you are a legend! I love buttons can I do some work experience please??

Best wishes

Audrey

By: Greg Tingey

Greg Tingey — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 07:26:29 +0000

Ah, I shall have to go there, rather than Button Queen now?

By: Vivienne Cuff

Vivienne Cuff — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 21:16:13 +0000

I love this. When I visit, I am keen to see if she has any old glass buttons.

By: David Shaffer

David Shaffer — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 14:25:58 +0000

Made me think of Jack Rosenbaum, who made buttons on Fashion Street….

By: Helen Breen

Helen Breen — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 12:42:19 +0000

Greetings from Boston,

GA, another great story, thank you!

I thought that the only existing house in London where Dickens lived was site of the Dickens Museum on Doughty Street. Interesting.

Also, I enjoyed reading about Maureen and her button business. A few years ago I needed a set of buttons for a jacket I had. I was amazed at how difficult it was to find any store that actually SOLD buttons. Years ago we had several Windsor Button Shops around Boston – but no more. But so few folks sew these days I guess.

All the best to Maureen…

By: pauline taylor

pauline taylor — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 11:26:34 +0000

I so much enjoyed reading this and was really amused by the story of men who buy cheap suits and have hand made buttons put on them, Well the buttons always make an outfit don’t they so they are on to a good thing!
Lovely memories for me too of my mother’s button box, I loved sorting them all out when trapped indoors by wet cold weather, and I still have many of them to this day, I am definitely a button hoarder; I can’t bear to part with attractive buttons so I just hoard them.

By: Akkers

Akkers — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 11:06:59 +0000

Another great story – I was taken back to my childhood going through my Nan and Mums button boxes. I am definitely making a beeline to Maureen’s the next time I am in the area.

By: Barbara Hague

Barbara Hague — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 10:42:20 +0000

My grandmother was born and bred in Spitalfields (surname Harper).
When I knew her, her surname was Walker and they lived in Mile End; Lear Street behind Mile End Station.
She told me she used to work from home sewing buttons on cards. On the census she was a hat and bonnet maker. Her parents had been potato merchants in Spitalfields Market – quite a change of occupation.

By: Edward

Edward — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 10:08:36 +0000

At ‘only independent button shop in the West End’, I initially bristled, ‘What about The Button Queen in Marylebone Lane?’ Turns out it relocated to Pembrokeshire in December 2017, after 65 years in London. All button fanciers, flock to Maureen’s from now on then.

By: Leila, Cumber

Leila, Cumber — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 09:45:52 +0000

Such a fascinating story and history. Maureen – keep going. You are an unique treasurer.

Leila