Comments on: In The Rotunda At The Museum Of London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/05/in-the-rotunda-at-the-museum-of-london-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 Tue, 07 Apr 2020 15:37:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/05/in-the-rotunda-at-the-museum-of-london-x/#comment-1334838 Tue, 07 Apr 2020 15:37:48 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180643#comment-1334838 The world beneath our feet. An ever giving history lesson.

]]> By: Grwg Tingey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/05/in-the-rotunda-at-the-museum-of-london-x/#comment-1334653 Sun, 05 Apr 2020 22:20:11 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180643#comment-1334653 Reminds me of the OTHER marked circle on the ground, in frontof The Guldhall … making out the periphery of London’s Roman Amphitheatre.
Especially when I & associates dance in that square!

]]> By: Laurent Beaulieu https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/05/in-the-rotunda-at-the-museum-of-london-x/#comment-1334646 Sun, 05 Apr 2020 20:49:49 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180643#comment-1334646 Thank you for this entry, I too wondered what was there and could not understand the way this was built. Your website has the most fascinating information on the East End and Spitalfields, I learn so much each time I read you. It is also good conversation topic with friends who are equally astounded to see your photos and information you provide.

]]> By: Gillian Tindall https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/05/in-the-rotunda-at-the-museum-of-london-x/#comment-1334641 Sun, 05 Apr 2020 19:25:19 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180643#comment-1334641 The Museum of London actually has so many bones that it boards some of them out elsewhere. Some years ago, when I was visiting the previous incumbent of St Brides church in Fleet Street, he showed me a stack of boxes kept on shelves in the one-time crypt adjacent to his own office. (The office itself had of course been full of bodies till it was emptied after the church had been wrecked in the blitz: the current occupant seemed quite unfazed by the thought of the previous ones).

He carefully took down one labelled box to show me the contents. In it was the skeleton – incomplete, but with part of the skull – of Wynkyn de Worde, the main inventor of the process of printing at the end of the 15th century. He brought his skills to London from his native Alsace. Since St Brides is the journalists’ and printers’ church, it seems very fitting that his fragile remnants should have ended up there.

]]> By: L E Williamson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/05/in-the-rotunda-at-the-museum-of-london-x/#comment-1334634 Sun, 05 Apr 2020 17:25:56 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180643#comment-1334634 One branch of my family originate (earliest record of them there in 1406) from a small and obscure English village which was actually quarantined during the Black Death, estimated death toll 60% and higher than the already dreadful average. Food was left at a crossroads 2 miles outside and they did the soaking money in vinegar/alcohol thing.

I’ve thought a lot about my possible ancestors recently, oddly enough, often when frustrated by delivery slots. I would rather be around now than in 1349.

Stay safe everyone, we can get through all this.

]]> By: aubrey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/05/in-the-rotunda-at-the-museum-of-london-x/#comment-1334618 Sun, 05 Apr 2020 14:07:45 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180643#comment-1334618 I’ve often attended some Gresham College lectures at The MOL. I had no idea of was down under/beside this building. Now I do. Thank you for the narrative – really fascinating.

]]> By: Saba https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/05/in-the-rotunda-at-the-museum-of-london-x/#comment-1334612 Sun, 05 Apr 2020 13:26:04 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180643#comment-1334612 GA, I daily follow you into some corner of life in London that I previously had not even imagined.

What will future archeologists learn about our generation from our remains? Well, Al Capp, the American cartoonist, said that people were evolving into blobs with out-sized forefingers for pressing buttons. Capp lived before computers came along. Now my hand is definitely reshaped — and hurts — due to computer use.

I’ll try to find the Museum of London catalog for the bones.

]]> By: paul loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/05/in-the-rotunda-at-the-museum-of-london-x/#comment-1334610 Sun, 05 Apr 2020 13:20:11 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180643#comment-1334610 When I left school in 1968 my first job was situated in Aldersgate st. I saw the Barbican being built. At the time it was a site of massive unrest with very large police presence due to the building workers strike. I came out of the building I worked in at lunchtime and was forced back by a full-scale riot taking place outside the site where they were bussing in strikebreakers to the chant of “scabs, scabs ! “. There was a huge drop into the foundations and I saw a building worker balanced on the surrounding wall with a number of policemen walking along the wall trying to reach him. I thought ” He is going to fall in there and he did at that moment ” I covered my eyes . I saw the ambulance come and they brought him up . He was alive, I don’t know how, but he just had a broken arm and some other injuries. I think The Rotunda came later on, it was always a mystery to me what was in there.

]]> By: Brenda https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/05/in-the-rotunda-at-the-museum-of-london-x/#comment-1334608 Sun, 05 Apr 2020 12:24:14 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180643#comment-1334608 I am so glad I found your wonderful Spitalfieldslife as an outer Londoner and disabled I can no longer get out, even more in these troubled times.
I’m an avid mudlarking fan and follow Nicola White and Sifinds on Youtube they find some amazing artefacts and give a rundown of their history in London through the years, and how the Thames was used. So thank you for bringing another part of London to life.

]]> By: Jiannis https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/05/in-the-rotunda-at-the-museum-of-london-x/#comment-1334600 Sun, 05 Apr 2020 09:41:40 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180643#comment-1334600 Congratulations for the wonderful blog and many thanks for today‘s post, which I found particularly interesting. Have been in that area (and visited the Museum) many times and always wondered what is the purpose of the rotunda. Now I know!

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