Comments on: All The Spitalfields Parties Of Yesteryear https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/24/all-the-spitalfields-parties-of-yesteryear/ 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, 25 Dec 2019 12:02:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Mary G https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/24/all-the-spitalfields-parties-of-yesteryear/#comment-1325753 Wed, 25 Dec 2019 12:02:09 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178667#comment-1325753 What a wonderful set of photos, and like many of the comments it transported me right back to my father’s ” The Firm Children’s Party” in the 1950s and early 1960s. The younger kiddies had a party but the older ones boarded coaches to attend a pantomime in a neighbouring town. I remember feeling very “grown-up” when I reached the age to go on the pantomime trip. It was so exciting and a perfect opportunity for the girls to don a party dress made from yards of bright flocked nylon. It was such a simpler, and in many ways better, time and with a few sandwiches and jelly we thought we had the world.
We also had a Father Christmas – but I don’t remember him being as terrifying as this one, who appears to have escaped from the pages of a Stephen King novel.

]]> By: Jeanette Hollick https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/24/all-the-spitalfields-parties-of-yesteryear/#comment-1325705 Tue, 24 Dec 2019 21:45:54 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178667#comment-1325705 Another lovely post, Thankyou.

Yes, I also noticed the ubiquitous smoking! How times have changed.

]]> By: Annie S https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/24/all-the-spitalfields-parties-of-yesteryear/#comment-1325699 Tue, 24 Dec 2019 19:31:37 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178667#comment-1325699 Lovely!
Like others have said, it reminds me of the children’s Christmas parties the company my father worked for put on in the 50’s.

]]> By: Pamela Traves https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/24/all-the-spitalfields-parties-of-yesteryear/#comment-1325698 Tue, 24 Dec 2019 19:18:14 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178667#comment-1325698 ??]]> These Vintage Christmas Pictures are So Wonderful. It reminds me of my childhood!!?????????⛄??

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/24/all-the-spitalfields-parties-of-yesteryear/#comment-1325696 Tue, 24 Dec 2019 18:12:51 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178667#comment-1325696 What jolly japes!

But I agree about the secret Santa…he is really spookily scary!!

]]> By: Linda Granfield https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/24/all-the-spitalfields-parties-of-yesteryear/#comment-1325691 Tue, 24 Dec 2019 16:04:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178667#comment-1325691 Merry Christmas greetings from Toronto to you, GA!

These photos are delightful. I hope you hear from some of the kids-now-grown and they tell you more East End stories for us to enjoy in the year to come.

As ever, thanks for your dedication and talents.

]]> By: Su C. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/24/all-the-spitalfields-parties-of-yesteryear/#comment-1325690 Tue, 24 Dec 2019 15:47:28 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178667#comment-1325690 I love the sincere enjoyment seen in these pics. And I wonder what the conversations were, which songs were being sung, what the giggles were about, and the memories gained for a lifetime.

Merry Christmas!

]]> By: Saba https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/24/all-the-spitalfields-parties-of-yesteryear/#comment-1325687 Tue, 24 Dec 2019 14:35:53 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178667#comment-1325687 Hello Lynne Perrella, I’m in the Hudson Valley also, in Montgomery. I enjoy your responses.

GA, you bring me so much joy all year round. Spitalfields Life is the only blog that I read.

Happy Holidays from a grateful reader, Saba

]]> By: Adele S https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/24/all-the-spitalfields-parties-of-yesteryear/#comment-1325686 Tue, 24 Dec 2019 14:06:52 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178667#comment-1325686 What a wonderful collection of photos! Wishing very Happy Holidays (be it Christmas, Chanukah or Kwanza) to one and all.

]]> By: Paul Loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/24/all-the-spitalfields-parties-of-yesteryear/#comment-1325685 Tue, 24 Dec 2019 14:05:53 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178667#comment-1325685 I agree with Di Corry These photos take me back to my childhood in the 50’s and . My father would take me along to his workplace at Fleet Building in Farringdon road where hundreds of children would gather for a fabulous Christmas party just like the one shown . I was awestruck by the vast towering machinery and multitude of telex machines when I was shown around . The thing is the workers here and also in Spitalfields must have gone to the ends of the earth to make these parties so special and unforgettable for the children . Their basic wage was round £5-10 a week in the 1950’s. What more can you say about such people who gave their all to make children happy?

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