Comments on: At Barts’ Great Hall https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/22/at-barts-great-hall/ 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, 22 Sep 2024 13:25:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Sonia Murray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/22/at-barts-great-hall/#comment-1625445 Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:25:26 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179185#comment-1625445 Thank you for this article, GA. The Hall and the Hogarth is so beautiful – it’s wonderful that it has survived the destruction of the last century and the planners who want to replace everything we cherish with steel and glass towers. Where would one find a list of the benefactors? A friend had ancestors who were masters of the Poulterer’s Guild, and may have contributed.

]]> By: Ian Silverton https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/22/at-barts-great-hall/#comment-1327674 Wed, 22 Jan 2020 20:02:14 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179185#comment-1327674 Great pictures GA, remember driving yes driving and parking through the gates in North Wing, to visit my Father whose bed was bought outside so he could see his last English Summer and what a summer it was massive heat wave,pubs even run out of beer 1976 he could never get over it being a Publican from East London. Lovely place that by the fountains spent many days sitting there with him and other patients nearing there end in there Ward Beds, not very PC now we bet. Stay safe London.

]]> By: Colin Cohen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/22/at-barts-great-hall/#comment-1327635 Wed, 22 Jan 2020 11:30:07 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179185#comment-1327635 Stunning, I bet the wards were not that lovely!

]]> By: Caroline Murray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/22/at-barts-great-hall/#comment-1327632 Wed, 22 Jan 2020 11:11:50 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179185#comment-1327632 Some interesting names among the donors – Soane and Angerstein, to say nothing of ‘A patient in Darker’s Ward’ who contributed £5.

]]> By: Sue Mayer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/22/at-barts-great-hall/#comment-1327631 Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:46:00 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179185#comment-1327631 This is a magnificent hall. We are lucky to have it still standing.

I like the “A Patient in Darkers Ward” on the Benefactions 1806 board.

]]> By: Sir Marcus Setchell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/22/at-barts-great-hall/#comment-1327627 Wed, 22 Jan 2020 09:58:00 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179185#comment-1327627 Woweeee! I’ve been in and out of Gibbs’ Square and the Great Hall more days than not for the last 50+ years, and these phenomenal images throw fresh light and excitement. Thank you for doing this ……. and bring it on for restoration and celebration in 2023.

]]> By: Pamela Traves https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/22/at-barts-great-hall/#comment-1327626 Wed, 22 Jan 2020 09:33:26 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179185#comment-1327626 That ceiling is So Amazingly Beautiful!! ????????

]]> By: Di Corry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/22/at-barts-great-hall/#comment-1327622 Wed, 22 Jan 2020 08:30:12 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179185#comment-1327622 Thank you for these photographs GA, Barts Hospital has a place in my heart.
Bittersweet memories of sitting by the fountain in the beautiful James Gibbs’ courtyard with my brother during his illness and treatment there.

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/22/at-barts-great-hall/#comment-1327619 Wed, 22 Jan 2020 08:11:51 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179185#comment-1327619 Wow! what a place – and great photos…

So glad it has survived and is going to be cared for and renovated (and not facaded!!)

]]> By: Greg Tingey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/22/at-barts-great-hall/#comment-1327618 Wed, 22 Jan 2020 08:08:19 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=179185#comment-1327618 Recommended reading: “The Tree of Justice” from “Rewards & Fairies” by Kipling.
Link here

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