Comments on: A Walk Through Dickens London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/12/a-walk-through-dickens-london/ 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, 15 Jan 2020 05:30:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Susan Henry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/12/a-walk-through-dickens-london/#comment-1327112 Wed, 15 Jan 2020 05:30:10 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178980#comment-1327112 This is so lovely.

Plus it’s so reassuring that there are still places in the world where everything isn’t built shoddily and torn down 50 years later. Or torn down 50 years later even if it’s well-built. (You can tell I have a certain bitterness about architecture in Vancouver, Canada.)

]]> By: Pamela StClair https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/12/a-walk-through-dickens-london/#comment-1327016 Mon, 13 Jan 2020 18:38:28 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178980#comment-1327016 Thank you for sharing this information on Dickens. He is my favorite writer. I long to go to London, and would like to go to these places.

]]> By: Pamela Traves https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/12/a-walk-through-dickens-london/#comment-1326997 Mon, 13 Jan 2020 09:33:18 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178980#comment-1326997 ??????]]> Amazing and Beautiful Vintage Pictures. Charles Dickens is one of my favourite writers. Thank You So Very Much!! ???❤??????

]]> By: Su C. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/12/a-walk-through-dickens-london/#comment-1326987 Mon, 13 Jan 2020 05:00:32 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178980#comment-1326987 I always felt bad about Nancy.

]]> By: Jo N https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/12/a-walk-through-dickens-london/#comment-1326980 Mon, 13 Jan 2020 02:43:32 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178980#comment-1326980 Unbelievably good work!

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/12/a-walk-through-dickens-london/#comment-1326962 Sun, 12 Jan 2020 19:08:03 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178980#comment-1326962 How wonderful that so much from the past HAS survived.

]]> By: Annie S https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/12/a-walk-through-dickens-london/#comment-1326955 Sun, 12 Jan 2020 15:36:22 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178980#comment-1326955 Very interesting to see the old cigarette cards.
Did you know that The Spinet House who issued the cards were in Shoreditch?
The cigarette company R & J Hill were based at 175 Shoreditch High Street.

]]> By: paul loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/12/a-walk-through-dickens-london/#comment-1326951 Sun, 12 Jan 2020 13:53:22 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178980#comment-1326951 Well who would have thought a packet of old cigarette cards could inspire a walk and bring to life the same streets that Charles Dickens trod. Perhaps some readers are not aware of how fortunate we are to have the presence of the Gentle Author in Spitalfields and his ability to be able to do this . How much would we have to pay for guided tour of these places on a cold Sunday morning ?
Thank you for your work in bringing this to us !

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/12/a-walk-through-dickens-london/#comment-1326948 Sun, 12 Jan 2020 12:27:35 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178980#comment-1326948 Wonderful Story and stunning “Then”- and “Now”-Pictures! Thanks for this brilliant Analysis of Past History.

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Pauline Taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/12/a-walk-through-dickens-london/#comment-1326947 Sun, 12 Jan 2020 12:14:02 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178980#comment-1326947 Great, thank you GA. I am sure my Frederick and James Greenwood, who were friends with Dickens from their early days as aspiring journalists and authors, would also have been very familiar with these scenes in London. James certainly wrote many articles concentrating on the lives of the poorer sections of the communities as an investigative journalist, so he walked these streets, as you do GA, and he was at the forefront of trying to improve life for them. Something tells me that you and James would have got along very well, he was often to be found in the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street where he would entertain his fellow imbibers with stories and songs, I believe that he had a very good singing voice. Oh for time a machine in order to go back and listen to him.

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