Comments on: Ken Sequin’s Badge Collection https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/30/ken-sequins-badge-collection/ 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, 20 Sep 2020 14:26:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Andrew Whitehead https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/30/ken-sequins-badge-collection/#comment-1353104 Sun, 20 Sep 2020 14:26:28 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172165#comment-1353104 I love the badges. Yes, the Mildmay Chums very likely refers to the Mildmay Radical Club on Newington Green – now the Mildmay Club and still going strong. In a room off the bar there’s aboard listing the Mildmay Chums, about sixty of them among them several who never came back from the Western Front.

]]> By: Ron Bunting https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/30/ken-sequins-badge-collection/#comment-1256530 Sun, 03 Feb 2019 21:08:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172165#comment-1256530 “vote for Crooks”!! do we have any choice in the matter?

]]> By: Catherine https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/30/ken-sequins-badge-collection/#comment-1254493 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 15:17:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172165#comment-1254493 Fascinating, especially the Walthamstow ones as I was born and raised there.

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/30/ken-sequins-badge-collection/#comment-1254490 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 15:03:03 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172165#comment-1254490 Just one more! (dislexic… sorry about spellings)
My dad smuggled me in to Dirty Dicks around 1971.. I made a sticky stick up cup thing from a cigeret packet…. pull out the silver papper, pop the tissue paper in your mouth, chew it and get it all wet.
Make a cup at one end and a flat kind of flyet at the outher…. then… fling it on the sealing!
“Smack” They were stuck all over the place!

Great pub… I think “Food Highjean” standards made them clean it up..but what a pub….
The old petrifide cat skelington is still there hopfully.

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/30/ken-sequins-badge-collection/#comment-1254488 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 14:47:52 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172165#comment-1254488 Love a badge!!! Still do!
If ever I joined somthing as a kid I eould say…. “Do you get a badge?!”

I loved the oldest one… My family were living there then.

Thank you

Mark B

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/30/ken-sequins-badge-collection/#comment-1254476 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 13:09:34 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172165#comment-1254476 Yup – another fascinating blog giving an insight into people’s concerns in past times…

I particularly like the Temperance badge with the strong drink dragon being overcome by the sober and upright citizens!

]]> By: Jonathan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/30/ken-sequins-badge-collection/#comment-1254469 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:59:38 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172165#comment-1254469 Oh my word. Wonderful!

]]> By: Lucy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/30/ken-sequins-badge-collection/#comment-1254462 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:26:40 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172165#comment-1254462 Vote for Crooks. Indeed.
Wonderful to see these beautiful designs.

]]> By: Akkers https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/30/ken-sequins-badge-collection/#comment-1254442 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 09:48:05 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172165#comment-1254442 Another great article. My Great Grandfather was a costermonger for a while in Hackney & Kingsland – I wonder if he ever had one of these badges.

]]> By: Nicola Freshwater https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/30/ken-sequins-badge-collection/#comment-1254439 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 09:31:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172165#comment-1254439 It’s possible that the Mildmay Chums badge may refer to the Mildmay Club at Newington Green. See the club website at http://mildmay.club/wwi-commemoration-at-the-mildmay/ for a description of last November’s remembrance of the Chums who fought in the First World War.

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