Comments on: The Lives Of The Nippers https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/04/the-lives-of-the-nippers/ 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, 20 Jan 2022 05:48:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: b.doyle https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/04/the-lives-of-the-nippers/#comment-1447322 Thu, 20 Jan 2022 05:48:12 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184818#comment-1447322 hi, i,m new to your website and i,m interested in the sad little girl with no shoes- adelaide springett, and have been unable to find any solid informarion about her after the 1901 photograph .can you please tell me where you got your information about her life from so i can set my mind at rest about her and her haunting picture . thank .

]]> By: Linda Chalkley nee Greenaway https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/04/the-lives-of-the-nippers/#comment-1385901 Fri, 16 Jul 2021 10:46:30 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184818#comment-1385901 I bought a copy of this book some years ago. My great aunts, the Ellis sisters are in it and a brief biography. My middle name is Carole after Caroline. She was my aunt Margaret’s favourite aunt. My grandmother Bridget Ellis lived in Quaker Street and raised a large family. She lived to be 102, inspite of great poverty. Her husband Thomas, a porter then a costermonger selling celery whole sale, died aged 38. Leaving her with three infants and older children already working. One day my aunt Margaret returned from work to find my mum, Eleanor aged 3 and Alfred 5 gone. I gave them to the nun’s she said. They ended up in an orphanage at North Hyde. My mum got diphtheria aged 2 ,as did her older sister Caroline who died. I was born in London 1941, but we were in Wembley. My aunt and grandma were bombed out twice in Spitalfields as were my great grandparents who lived I. Hoxton Square. I did our family history after retiring. Monday I am coming to Spitalfields Market on a coach trip and wold like to visit your bookshop if it is in the area. I also have a copy of Spitalfields Life. I now live in Buckinghamshire. Willing to tell a lot more about my family to you.

]]> By: paul loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/04/the-lives-of-the-nippers/#comment-1363336 Mon, 04 Jan 2021 13:54:23 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184818#comment-1363336 Thank you for these moving photos which portray the nature of life for working class children at the turn of the century. Life is indeed a fragile thing for all people at all times, but to see the children born into such poor circumstances and to have lived a productive life is definitely an achievement. The impact of a child’s death stays with you. My first experience was at school around 1955 when a classmate at Fleetwood infants School ran into the road in Stoke Newington High street and she was hit by a car. My mother was out shopping and saw this little girl that I knew being run over in front of her. She was mortified and heartbroken. Our school was hit by a terrible sadness.

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/04/the-lives-of-the-nippers/#comment-1363332 Mon, 04 Jan 2021 12:32:10 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184818#comment-1363332 A very special and fine Book — I love it so much!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Max Reeves https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/04/the-lives-of-the-nippers/#comment-1363322 Mon, 04 Jan 2021 10:54:30 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184818#comment-1363322 So Adelaide Springett would have been next door neighbour to Marie Kelly in Miller’s Court?

]]> By: Richard Smith https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/04/the-lives-of-the-nippers/#comment-1363318 Mon, 04 Jan 2021 10:01:34 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184818#comment-1363318 Thank you for posting these photographs GA. It’s difficult to know really what to say but you are right: it’s heart warming to see how these tenacious souls carved out a life for themselves despite the hardships they endured. Bless ’em all!

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