Comments on: The Harvest Festival Of The Sea https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/10/06/the-harvest-festival-of-the-sea-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 Sun, 06 Oct 2019 13:20:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Saba https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/10/06/the-harvest-festival-of-the-sea-x/#comment-1317088 Sun, 06 Oct 2019 13:20:20 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177299#comment-1317088 GA, Spitalfields is the only blog I read daily. Just a gift and your writing is beautiful.

Please accept a gentle reminder offered only with respect. I sometimes find what I think may be misplaced modifiers in the articles. Here’s one today —
Proudly attending the spectacular display of fish in the porch, I met Eddie Hill, a fishmonger who started his career in 1948.
Were you or Eddie Hill “proudly attending” the display? You may mean that you were proud, but it seems more likely that you want the readers to know that Eddie Hill was proud.

Anyway, I look forward to the articles every day. Saba

]]> By: Mathilde Grange https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/10/06/the-harvest-festival-of-the-sea-x/#comment-1317051 Sun, 06 Oct 2019 09:30:54 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177299#comment-1317051 I love the bobbins, wonderful inventions. Great article.

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/10/06/the-harvest-festival-of-the-sea-x/#comment-1317049 Sun, 06 Oct 2019 09:20:28 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177299#comment-1317049 Greetings from Boston,

GA, thanks for sharing your experience at the Fish Harvest Festival at St. Mary-at-Hill. What a wonderful ritual to maintain, combining the traditions of Billingsgate Market in that lovely Christopher Wren setting. Good to see the children participating also.

Great pics, especially of the senior porters and their “bobbins.” That luncheon spread looks tempting too. Glad you enjoyed your fish for the week…

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/10/06/the-harvest-festival-of-the-sea-x/#comment-1317047 Sun, 06 Oct 2019 08:30:35 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177299#comment-1317047 That must have been a heavenly church service for a fish lover like you… (I take slight issue with the phrase “which we all delight to eat”!)

But great to see the old City traditions living on.

]]> By: Georgina Briody https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/10/06/the-harvest-festival-of-the-sea-x/#comment-1317042 Sun, 06 Oct 2019 07:33:20 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177299#comment-1317042 As a child I remember walking with my father along the cobbled streets and watching the old Billingsgate working.

]]> By: Jim McDermott https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/10/06/the-harvest-festival-of-the-sea-x/#comment-1317019 Sun, 06 Oct 2019 03:21:57 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177299#comment-1317019 Lovely ceremony! Being an old church buff (and living & working in the City at the time) I was in St Mary-at-Hill one day in 1988, taking lots of photos of that exquisite dome. A week later it had burned down. I still look at the pictures sometimes and feel v. sad (though the restoration was excellent. as your photos show). As is the case with so many London churches, I always wish I could go back and see them before 1666 – but then I’d be greedy, and want to see them before c.1250, etc. etc

I was also in St Ethelburga’s Bishopsgate about a month before the IRA near demolished it. I hope I’m not bringing foul luck.

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