Comments on: My Scrap Collection https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/13/my-scrap-colllection/ 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 05:32:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Sonia Murray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/13/my-scrap-colllection/#comment-1364145 Fri, 15 Jan 2021 05:32:19 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184927#comment-1364145 These scraps are so wonderfully detailed! Thanks, GA! Were they meant to be pasted into scrapbooks, or stood up like toy soldiers? Irene, thanks for the information about easterlings. Cousins of my Sufflings had a cannery at Yarmouth, but by the 80’s the dormitories for the Scotch fisher girls were boarded up and the trawlers were rusting at the docks. I was told that Russian factory ships had come with seine nets and fished out the North Sea, took so many fish the stock could not recover. When I was a child herrings were a poor man’s supper. The last time I saw one in London it was on a marble slab, like salmon.

]]> By: Pamela Traves https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/13/my-scrap-colllection/#comment-1364087 Thu, 14 Jan 2021 02:24:47 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184927#comment-1364087 Wonderful of this Vintage pictures of these statues!! I Love Them!!!????????

]]> By: Irene Stephen-Jack https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/13/my-scrap-colllection/#comment-1364079 Thu, 14 Jan 2021 00:03:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184927#comment-1364079 Thanks for t Scottish herring gutting girls. Both my parents were part of that fishing heritage on t East coast of Aberdeenshire. My father was born in Anstruther, Fife, where his mother came from. She was a herring ‘Quine’ as they were called in Doric Scots. She hailed from the tiny fishing village of St Combs, where I was born, and moved back there with the husband she met in Anstruther when my father was 4.
Did you know: during t great herring boom of t 19th century most of t herring caught and packed on t East coast of Scotland were exported along t Baltic Sea – t Ostsee (literally ‘The East Sea’) to Russia as a cheap source of very good protein. They were known as ‘easterlings’ and were such a valuable cash crop that they are t origin of our word ‘Sterling’ in English.
Now…..not many people know that…..

]]> By: Di Corry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/13/my-scrap-colllection/#comment-1364070 Wed, 13 Jan 2021 19:15:36 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184927#comment-1364070 These are just delightful….thank you so much for sharing your amazing collection. The Herring Girls are my favourite and today’s post has made a grey day seem much brighter.

]]> By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/13/my-scrap-colllection/#comment-1364065 Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:04:53 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184927#comment-1364065 I come from the East Coast of Scotland and there is an excellent fisheries museum in the town of Anstruther in Fife. Thank you for showing the herring girls, they’re lovely.

]]> By: Kate https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/13/my-scrap-colllection/#comment-1364064 Wed, 13 Jan 2021 15:27:57 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184927#comment-1364064 Every Spring, when the weather got a bit warmer, we little girls at Tang Hall Avenue
school in York would sit on steps in the playground and Swap Scraps. These were real treasures in those paper-short wartime days! We never had gorgeous ones like your tradesmen; we had flowers, birds and animals that I can remember. fashionable ladies and, most prized of all, Angels. I have no idea what happened to them when we won our Grammar School scholarships!

]]> By: paul loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/13/my-scrap-colllection/#comment-1364062 Wed, 13 Jan 2021 14:50:06 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184927#comment-1364062 Your showing us this collection during these bleak times brings into focus how anti-human this world and our day to day life has become. Without us having the awareness of it having crept upon us. Here we have a collection of people at work seen in the streets we walk and live in. Men, women, street sellers, performers. All to see and enjoy or perhaps not. It is life before our eyes.
We now live with life removed. Suspicious and fearful. In front of the screens. Walking down anonymous streets of concrete and glass blocks, oblivious of others. Fully occupied with the “life or death conversation” that cannot wait until you get home. Is it any wonder that we elect monsters for leaders and are proud of it . Thank you, Gentle Author for showing us your collection!

]]> By: Christy S. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/13/my-scrap-colllection/#comment-1364061 Wed, 13 Jan 2021 14:10:04 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184927#comment-1364061 Fantastic. Little jewels, all of them

]]> By: Linda Granfield https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/13/my-scrap-colllection/#comment-1364059 Wed, 13 Jan 2021 13:36:04 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184927#comment-1364059 Incredible colours and details! The shading in the Portcullis (last) scrap is wonderfully done. And to think how small these items are–the work is fine.

Another S. Life book in the offing, perhaps?

Thanks for brightening up this dreary Toronto morning!

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/01/13/my-scrap-colllection/#comment-1364054 Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:29:11 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184927#comment-1364054 Wonderful Collectibles!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

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