Comments on: At Arthur Beale https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/29/at-arthur-beale-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 Tue, 29 Jan 2019 16:49:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Steve Hanscomb https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/29/at-arthur-beale-x/#comment-1254270 Tue, 29 Jan 2019 16:49:10 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172158#comment-1254270 It’s great to read this! I had no idea they have been going for so long, what a history! I’ve used Beale when buying varnish for the canoe paddles I carved, also floating safety ropes for my canoe. Always polite and knowledgable, it’s a pleasure to use the shop. I was in there the other day buying parts for my tool box, they knew exactly where the bits were I needed.
Last Friday there was the deeply depressing news that Fuller Smith and Turner were selling off their brewery after 170 years. The last of London’s family owned big brewers and truly the end of an era. It’s a little ray of sunshine reading this. Long may they continue.

]]> By: David https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/29/at-arthur-beale-x/#comment-1254264 Tue, 29 Jan 2019 16:24:38 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172158#comment-1254264 OMG that barometer…I’d give my eye-teeth for that. I love how you ferret out these places. Anything nautical is dear to my heart.

]]> By: Mathilde Grange https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/29/at-arthur-beale-x/#comment-1254215 Tue, 29 Jan 2019 09:25:35 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172158#comment-1254215 What a wonderful shop. Too bad I’m a little too far to pay a visit asap. By the way, the 19th century lino was much more elegant than the 1950’s lino.

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/29/at-arthur-beale-x/#comment-1254214 Tue, 29 Jan 2019 09:14:17 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172158#comment-1254214 I’ve always been intrigued by this store and I am so pleased that it has been saved from the rampaging developers. I was at college in Charing Cross Road and in those days there were lots of useful suppliers in the area (my favourite was Russell and Chapple who specialised in theatrical canvas and had a very particular smell!), most of which have been replaced by trendy expensive clothes shops.

I was also interested to read that Alasdair Flint has taken it over as Flints have recently lost their own warehouse and now run their business from a small outlet in Rotherhithe – a great loss for those of us who loved wandering round their old shop, looking at all the specialist paint brushes, paints and glazes, glues, theatrical fixtures and fittings, tubs of glitter etc. It is never quite the same buying from a catalogue…

Ah well – long may Arthur Beale continue as a proper shop!

]]> By: Julia harrison https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/29/at-arthur-beale-x/#comment-1254207 Tue, 29 Jan 2019 08:19:21 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172158#comment-1254207 What an incredible history and how wonderful that it is still going. We need one of those ash poles at Daunt Books to fend off greedy landlords.

]]> By: Caroline Bottomley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/29/at-arthur-beale-x/#comment-1254201 Tue, 29 Jan 2019 07:35:44 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172158#comment-1254201 I was in there just the other day!
I shall pop back for some deck shoes, they looked pretty smart

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