Comments on: Sights Of Wonderful London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/02/sights-of-wonderful-london-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 Mon, 21 Jan 2019 19:40:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Deborah https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/02/sights-of-wonderful-london-x/#comment-1253105 Mon, 21 Jan 2019 19:40:53 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171640#comment-1253105 Absolutely wonderful pictures. I love London, every bit of it, & go whenever I can.

]]> By: Jenny Moore https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/02/sights-of-wonderful-london-x/#comment-1251462 Sun, 13 Jan 2019 17:46:40 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171640#comment-1251462 I’m very late to this (as ever!) but just wanted to agree with Mick Adams – the plane tree on Cheapside, and the three little shops it towers over, are still there…I stood at a bus-stop opposite not long ago.

Sadly, though, Friday Street, on the opposite side of the road – and therefore the building that can just be seen on the photo with the plaque declaring it to be ‘the oldest building on Cheapside’ – have, almost inevitably, disappeared and been replaced by a crass pile of glass and steel housing yet more ‘retail opportunities’.

Interesting to see the Bermondsey house built over the creek on Jacob’s Island, where my husband’s family lived in the 19th century. Wonderful photos – thank you.

]]> By: Linda Granfield https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/02/sights-of-wonderful-london-x/#comment-1249089 Thu, 03 Jan 2019 21:36:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171640#comment-1249089 230 Strand–David Cantor’s additions here made me look it up–sure enough, the staircase is mentioned and is important!

http://www.cabbieblog.com/site-unseen-230-strand/

Always so much to learn AFTER reading S. Life.

]]> By: David Cantor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/02/sights-of-wonderful-london-x/#comment-1249024 Thu, 03 Jan 2019 11:06:28 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171640#comment-1249024 Jill Wilson – Dirty Dick’s was and still is a pub opposite Liverpool Street Station on Bishopsgate, just a stone’s throw from the wonderful Bishopsgate Institute.

David

]]> By: Saba https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/02/sights-of-wonderful-london-x/#comment-1248931 Wed, 02 Jan 2019 23:46:02 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171640#comment-1248931 GA, yes, more on the Langbourne Club, if possible. Thank you, always, and Happy New Year.

]]> By: Ray Joe https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/02/sights-of-wonderful-london-x/#comment-1248909 Wed, 02 Jan 2019 21:31:12 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171640#comment-1248909 At least, Bunhill Fields has barently changed!

]]> By: Robert Silverman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/02/sights-of-wonderful-london-x/#comment-1248876 Wed, 02 Jan 2019 18:13:44 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171640#comment-1248876 Wonderful photographs and wonderful selection, definitely worth reprinting in hard copy along with some of the others. Thanks very much.

]]> By: Adrienne Roche https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/02/sights-of-wonderful-london-x/#comment-1248870 Wed, 02 Jan 2019 16:51:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171640#comment-1248870 Excellent, as ever.

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/02/sights-of-wonderful-london-x/#comment-1248868 Wed, 02 Jan 2019 16:42:00 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171640#comment-1248868 Yes – Wonderful is the word!

But there are manners questions arising… What happened to the Roman galley? What was Dirty Dicks? (the mind boggles!) What was the Bridge House and why did it have such a camp porch? What was the London stone and where is it now? And more info on the Langbourne Club please (I’d love to know what the ladies were gossiping about…)

Nearly all the photos could become a blog in themselves – great stuff!

]]> By: Mary https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/02/sights-of-wonderful-london-x/#comment-1248863 Wed, 02 Jan 2019 15:47:17 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171640#comment-1248863 “Wonderful” indeed, and also wonderful to here from others that some of those buildings are still there. Fascinating memories from Ian Silverton too.

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