Comments on: Robert Green, Sclater St Market Trader https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/06/09/robert-green-sclater-st-market-trader/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 12 Jun 2019 19:28:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Richard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/06/09/robert-green-sclater-st-market-trader/#comment-1292333 Wed, 12 Jun 2019 19:28:48 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174869#comment-1292333 I remember it being really crowded in the seventies. Coming from outside London I was amazed by the dereliction, but it was fascinating. You could get just about anything. A lot of knocked off bikes if I remember.

]]> By: Stuart goodman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/06/09/robert-green-sclater-st-market-trader/#comment-1292238 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 17:36:10 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174869#comment-1292238 Sheer poetry! What a wonderful story. Thanks.

]]> By: mick o'leary https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/06/09/robert-green-sclater-st-market-trader/#comment-1292219 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 15:06:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174869#comment-1292219 What a fantastic piece of social history! Lovely, moving story showing how the roots of community and family go deep. Am sure I must have bough a Raelbrook’s shirt from the Green’s family stall!

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/06/09/robert-green-sclater-st-market-trader/#comment-1291992 Mon, 10 Jun 2019 08:43:03 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174869#comment-1291992 Great family story and I quite agree with Helen about the community spirit – up with markets, down with shiny new blocks of flats!!

The blog also made me nostalgic for the wonderfully quiet Sundays there used to be in London when all the shops were shut and you could wander the streets alone…

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/06/09/robert-green-sclater-st-market-trader/#comment-1291911 Sun, 09 Jun 2019 19:28:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174869#comment-1291911 My parents were married in 1955 and spent their honeymoon in London for the week, culminating in a Sunday bussle down the Petticoat Lane! Tis true cos me mum showed us the photo innit?

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/06/09/robert-green-sclater-st-market-trader/#comment-1291852 Sun, 09 Jun 2019 11:16:20 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174869#comment-1291852 Greetings from Boston,

GA, what a great piece about Robert Green and his family in the trading business of Sclater Street – tradition, tradition. A warm story of family bonds and loyalty too. I agree:

“These days you hear so much about community spirit but they do not know what they are talking about. Having a shiny block of flats is not generating community spirit, it is completely missing the point. What is going on down here in the market and what has happened in the past, that really is a community spirit.”

To which I say “Amen.”

]]> By: P Johnson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/06/09/robert-green-sclater-st-market-trader/#comment-1291849 Sun, 09 Jun 2019 10:55:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174869#comment-1291849 Wow long story and interesting

]]> By: Robert https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/06/09/robert-green-sclater-st-market-trader/#comment-1291841 Sun, 09 Jun 2019 09:49:59 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174869#comment-1291841 I’ve always noted this trader and have wondered what his back story was. It’s an interesting read.

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