Comments on: My Love For The Cries Of London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/07/some-favourite-cries-of-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 Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:11:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Peter J Washington https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/07/some-favourite-cries-of-london/#comment-1364180 Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:11:19 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184836#comment-1364180 Loved reading this, thank you.

]]> By: Pamela Traves https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/07/some-favourite-cries-of-london/#comment-1363690 Fri, 08 Jan 2021 05:43:29 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184836#comment-1363690 Love the Vintage Paintings of the people who sold their ideas. They are Wonderful!!??????????

]]> By: Caroline Murray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/07/some-favourite-cries-of-london/#comment-1363621 Thu, 07 Jan 2021 17:12:20 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184836#comment-1363621 I hadn’t noticed before that in the image of London boardmen & women by George Scharf, there is a reference to Catlin’s Indian Exhibition: you might be interested in this. http://bit.ly/3s2N3HQ

]]> By: David Antscherl https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/07/some-favourite-cries-of-london/#comment-1363600 Thu, 07 Jan 2021 13:08:29 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184836#comment-1363600 One street cry I’ve not seen recorded I recall from my childhood.; a man and his boy on a horse-drawn cart crying “Raaboaah! Raaboaah!” Translated, this was “Rags and bones!”. In this case, he was a buyer, not a seller. This was state-of-the-art recycling in the late 1940’s.

]]> By: Ian Lee https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/07/some-favourite-cries-of-london/#comment-1363591 Thu, 07 Jan 2021 11:24:55 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184836#comment-1363591 I remember the roast chestnut sellers in the Oxford Street area in the lead-up to Christmas, back in the ’60s/’70s.

Not that I liked their product, once I’d tried them. But they certainly added to the ambience.

]]> By: Val Bott https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/07/some-favourite-cries-of-london/#comment-1363579 Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:34:36 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184836#comment-1363579 Thanks for these great images – thought you might be interested to know that the strawberry seller is carrying pottles, the small pointed baskets in which soft fruit was packed. The tapering shape ensure that the fruit in the bottom was less lkely to be squashed by the fruits above. These were carried upright in the large basket on her head. I have written a piece about Thames osier growers and basket makers which includes the pottle business here: http://nurserygardeners.com/?p=1220

Best wishes, Val

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