Comments on: Street Sellers of Plants, Fruit, Veg & Flowers https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/12/02/street-sellers-of-plants-fruit-veg-flowers/ 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, 02 Dec 2018 18:16:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Robin Gladstone https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/12/02/street-sellers-of-plants-fruit-veg-flowers/#comment-1242638 Sun, 02 Dec 2018 17:41:28 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=170774#comment-1242638 Two LPs/CDs you should know about if you don’t already.

Cries of London by Paul Hillier/Theatre of Voices and Fretwork Viol Consort
This is a CD release from about 10 years ago with early 17th century musical illustrations of cries by Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Weelkes and others.

Luciano Berio (Italian composer active in the second half of the 20th century) Cries of London
Marvelous contemporary interpretation/composition of cries performed by the second iteration of the Swingle Singers, Swingle ll. This is an LP release from the mid seventies, possibly with a CD reissue.

]]> By: Caroline Murray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/12/02/street-sellers-of-plants-fruit-veg-flowers/#comment-1242616 Sun, 02 Dec 2018 14:36:59 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=170774#comment-1242616 Absolutely fascinating, thank you, GA! I particularly liked the donkey cart of John Quill and Mary Gold, and the Turk hawking rhubarb, which of course was a great panacea (and rare, until it became clear that it could be grown in this country): you might like this? https://bit.ly/1FgBVXD

]]> By: Paul Loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/12/02/street-sellers-of-plants-fruit-veg-flowers/#comment-1242613 Sun, 02 Dec 2018 14:18:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=170774#comment-1242613 Thank you both for bringing back the sounds , smells and images of old London to us. All of these are memory stimulants but since the real memories are now buried along with their owners we can now try to imagine this very different London with the help of this beautifully written book

]]> By: Andrea https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/12/02/street-sellers-of-plants-fruit-veg-flowers/#comment-1242607 Sun, 02 Dec 2018 13:45:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=170774#comment-1242607 Yardley and Co. used the illustration of the the lavender sellers in their adverts for years.

]]> By: Sian Rees https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/12/02/street-sellers-of-plants-fruit-veg-flowers/#comment-1242604 Sun, 02 Dec 2018 13:22:50 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=170774#comment-1242604 A wonderful collaboration – great to see these images and stories brought together. Fascinating record of how people have made a living in horticulture – and how the public purchased plants for their houses and gardens before the convenience of the garden centre and internet.

]]> By: Di Corry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/12/02/street-sellers-of-plants-fruit-veg-flowers/#comment-1242578 Sun, 02 Dec 2018 10:09:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=170774#comment-1242578 Absolutely fascinating as a follow on to GA’S wonderful book which I already own.
I have special interest in this subject as family history research has revealed that many of my ancestors were ‘Hawkers’ living in Bethnal Green in the mid to late 1800’s.
I am in no doubt that given their addresses at the time …..they would look like those street vendors portrayed by Luke Clennell. …….and described by the GA as ‘a rough bunch ‘ with ‘unrivalled spirit’. I am proud of them and their resourcefulness, struggling to do whatever they could to survive in such difficult times.

]]> By: Celia https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/12/02/street-sellers-of-plants-fruit-veg-flowers/#comment-1242563 Sun, 02 Dec 2018 08:20:06 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=170774#comment-1242563 I was curious to find out more about pottles, and came across this interesting blog: http://researchingfoodhistory.blogspot.com/2015/06/strawberries-in-pottles-and-punnets.html
Thank you for leading me on an interesting meander.

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