Comments on: Name The Landmarks Of Jewish Spitalfields

By: Marilyn Skeggs nee Bernstein

Marilyn Skeggs nee Bernstein — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 14:33:32 +0000

visiting our Bubba’s in her flat on a Sunday market day in Middlesex Street. All the her sons and daughters would be there and their childen, all of the cousins and on the stove in the tiny kitchen would be the fowls legs sticking out of the saucepan….Bubba’s making lochen…..

By: Ebbisham Commoner

Ebbisham Commoner — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 14:11:33 +0000

Great article. This link goes to a documentary made by Georgia Brown and including Lionel Bart in the late 60’s and captures the East End as it then was, focussing in her formative years where she grew up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7uW7koB7pw

By: benjamin tobin

benjamin tobin — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 09:25:45 +0000

We opened our City office at 41 Artillery Lane, in 1987, anticipating the close of the fruit market and the expansion of the City eastwards.

Our Grade II Listed Building had been built in the 1780’s and was refurbished in the 1980’s with a new steel frame to hold it up. Notwithstanding the floors all sloped markedly and all of our furniture had to have wedges made. A small internal courtyard of about 3 square yards had been glazed over to form what we thought was one of the earliest atria in London. Shortly after we bought, a client told us that their family had run a dairy – Samuel Stores there, keeping a cow in the yard.

We held fortnightly board meetings starting at 6 p.m. and as we left, usually at about 8, the fruit trucks from the continent would be arriving and with them, the prostitutes standing on the corners, to “service” them.

By: Sarah Montagu

Sarah Montagu — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 17:06:24 +0000

Perhaps show Frying Pan Alley (runs between Bell Lane and Sandys Row) as well as the Tenterground?

Glad to see that my great-great grandfather Samuel Montagu makes the cut!

Agree with Paul Shaviv about the type-face; kitschy, hard to read and unpleasant associations…

By: Mark King

Mark King — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 10:40:28 +0000

This is a better link for Ikey Solomons’ connections with the East Endhttp://mentalfloss.com/article/71454/real-life-criminal-who-inspired-charles-dickens

By: Mark Kibg

Mark Kibg — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 10:15:22 +0000

David Bomberg, artist:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0449010X.1987.10703750

Isaac Rosenberg, WW1 poet and artist: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/isaac-rosenberg/

Petticoat Lane/Middlesex St market.

Joseph Malin and the ‘invention’ of fish and chips.

Yiddish theatre sites, especially Jacob Adler’s theatre on what is today called Princelet St: https://londonist.com/2015/10/london-s-lost-yiddish-theatre

Keith Bowler’s commemorative metal coal hole covers are a reference point e.g. the one on Princelet St:
http://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/10/08/the-roundels-of-spitalfields/

Former synagogue now the Jamme Masjid mosque on the corner of Brick Lane and Fournier St. ‘Umbra sumus’ inscription on sundial from original use as a Huguenot chapel.

Wolf Mankowitz, Lionel Bart (Begleiter), Sir Arnold Wesker.

Reputed lair of Ikey Solomon’s (model for Dickens’s Fagin): http://fiveminutehistory.com/the-remarkable-story-of-the-real-fagin-from-charles-dickens-oliver-twist/?cn-reloaded=1

The Christian missionary plaques in the vestibule of Christ Church Spitalfields, esp. former Jew, Rev. Henry Aaron Stone: https://www.jewisheastend.com/christchurch.html

Site of Elfes monumental masons on Brick Lane: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elfes_Monumental_Masons_in_Brick_Lane_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1594652.jpg

Site of Jewish Daily Post newspaper, 88 Whitechapel High St: https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/jewish-newspaper

Kenny Hunter’s sculpture ‘I goat’ on Brushfield St that references refugees, the Jewish religious concept of the scapegoat, non-conformity, the local market etc: http://www.urban75.org/blog/its-a-goat-on-a-pile-of-boxes-in-spitalfields-london/

By: Paul shaviv

Paul shaviv — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 19:02:00 +0000

1. Ruth Campbel: Good suggestions, but some (e.g. Isaiah Berlin) not connected to East End. Selig Brodetsky, Dr. Bronowski etc should be there. I will take a longer look at this, as it is a great project; but the text is difficult to read. I also wish Adam Dant did not use that awful kitsch.y typeface, which also has unpleasant associations with its use b.y the Nazis.

By: aubrey

aubrey — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 15:59:23 +0000

The park is at the junction of Roman Road and Cambridge Heath Road. We kids called the place Itchy Park. I Never knew why though! It had/has a wonderful library where I idled away my mis-spent youth.

By: Stephen Barry

Stephen Barry — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 15:34:08 +0000

How about marking the Tenterground? This was the home for hundreds of poor Dutch Jews (many from Amsterdam) who arrived in Spitalfields from the 1850s before the mass influx of Jews from eastern Europe. The Tenterground streets they lived in, behind Spitalfields Market, were Shepherd Street and Tenter Street along with the four streets running between them: Butler Street, Freeman Street, Palmer Street and Tilley Street, now all gone. Stephen Barry

By: David Hoffman

David Hoffman — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 13:31:44 +0000

The Kosher Luncheon Club at the Morris Kasler Hall on the corner of Old Montague Street and Greatorex Street absolutely deserves a mention.

This was a wonderful spot for lunch as splendid as it was inexpensive. Generous portions served by its happy crew of perfect bubbas, always pressing a little more onto your plate. One of the best unknown Jewish restaurants in London.

It closed in 1992 after what was reported as a racist arson attack.