Comments on: A Walk Through Walter Thornbury’s London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/02/a-walk-through-walter-thornburys-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 Thu, 03 Dec 2020 03:02:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: marianne isaacs https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/02/a-walk-through-walter-thornburys-london-x/#comment-1359656 Thu, 03 Dec 2020 03:02:50 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184382#comment-1359656 I noticed in one of these that Fagan and Scrooge got a mention on signs. I wonder if that was a little tribute to Dickens or whether there really were people of those names trading . Seems unlikely to me

]]> By: Lizebeth https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/02/a-walk-through-walter-thornburys-london-x/#comment-1359638 Wed, 02 Dec 2020 20:45:04 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184382#comment-1359638 What amazing pictures. And so much destroyed that would be of immeasurable interest today. (But some of the buildings must have been quite grim?) I do tend to romanticise the past, as today is so joyless, and modern architecture so soulless. I wish I could have seen some of these places in person. How can we get our civic leaders to respect the past? It seems an insoluble problem.

]]> By: Bernie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/02/a-walk-through-walter-thornburys-london-x/#comment-1359627 Wed, 02 Dec 2020 16:40:52 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184382#comment-1359627 I recognise some of these as being of places of my childhood and youth in Stoke Newington. Rectory Road was just a few turnings away from our home, and was also the name of the railway station (on the Liverpool St to Chingford line) by which I journeyed to school (alighting at Cambridge Heath station, Bethnal Green) almost daily, 1944-1949. And from which I remember starting my 1939 Evacuation journey. Not only was that a needless panic-measure but it took me to the Ipswich area, closer to Germany!

I wonder where the Dalston Manor house was. Nothing manorial about Dalston in my day! But I also remember the trams turning there from Stoke Newington Road into Balls Pond Road and how the conductor had to lower the connection-pole to allow the corner to be turned.

]]> By: paul loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/02/a-walk-through-walter-thornburys-london-x/#comment-1359617 Wed, 02 Dec 2020 12:49:14 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184382#comment-1359617 Where lies the desire to have destroyed wholesale, all this intricate beauty, and replace it with empty shells and concrete boxes?

]]> By: Mathilde Grange https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/02/a-walk-through-walter-thornburys-london-x/#comment-1359607 Wed, 02 Dec 2020 10:18:05 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184382#comment-1359607 Wonderful. Fleet Ditch… Now I know about the River Fleet. Sir Paul Pindar’s lodge, a marvel… The beams holding the buildings… Everything. Some of these buildings should have neer been torned down. They were jewels. Thank you.

]]> By: Mox https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/02/a-walk-through-walter-thornburys-london-x/#comment-1359606 Wed, 02 Dec 2020 10:09:05 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184382#comment-1359606 These engravings are incredible. I love the mammals at the British Museum. What a shame so much has been lost over the years. And the destruction continues!

]]> By: Julian https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/02/a-walk-through-walter-thornburys-london-x/#comment-1359605 Wed, 02 Dec 2020 09:56:36 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184382#comment-1359605 Loved the prints, I felt that I was there and each of the buildings had their own character unlike today where most of the buildings are boxes.

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/02/a-walk-through-walter-thornburys-london-x/#comment-1359604 Wed, 02 Dec 2020 09:49:35 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184382#comment-1359604 Can I join you on the walk? Looks fascinating…

I think we could also bump into Charles Dickens doing one of his nighttime London perambulations.

]]> By: Annie S https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/02/a-walk-through-walter-thornburys-london-x/#comment-1359601 Wed, 02 Dec 2020 09:25:46 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184382#comment-1359601 Field Lane – is that where Dickens got the names of his characters Scrooge and Fagin?!
Wonderful drawings.

]]> By: Graeme Cook https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/02/a-walk-through-walter-thornburys-london-x/#comment-1359599 Wed, 02 Dec 2020 08:23:56 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184382#comment-1359599 Look at the signs in Field Lane 1840. Scrooge and Fagan………..I wonder if ?????????

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