Comments on: The Juvenile Almanac https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/08/the-juvenile-almanac/ 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, 02 Jul 2021 13:53:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Stella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/08/the-juvenile-almanac/#comment-1384523 Fri, 02 Jul 2021 13:53:46 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185396#comment-1384523 To Pauline Taylor: Looks like her name was Olive Wingate Dennis….very interesting to me as my maiden name is Wingate!

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/08/the-juvenile-almanac/#comment-1367595 Tue, 09 Feb 2021 18:12:39 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185396#comment-1367595 I look forward to seeing the crocus and violets. At the moment, I am living under a blanket of deep snow.

]]> By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/08/the-juvenile-almanac/#comment-1367482 Mon, 08 Feb 2021 20:51:17 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185396#comment-1367482 What a lovely journey through the months and seasons. It really cheered me up on a day full of grey skies, rain and heavy sleet.

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/08/the-juvenile-almanac/#comment-1367417 Mon, 08 Feb 2021 11:30:39 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185396#comment-1367417 In those days, people still knew what was important and what mattered. – Beautiful graphics!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Pauline Taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/08/the-juvenile-almanac/#comment-1367412 Mon, 08 Feb 2021 11:10:19 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185396#comment-1367412 How delightful this is and I, like others, was very surprised to see snowdrops mentioned in April. I wonder if this arrived in Olive’s Christmas stocking, and how I wish I could discover who she was but I can’t be sure of the rest of her name. Do we know the date of this almanac as the delightful drawings would suggest it is very early, perhaps circa 1800?

Interesting too to see the spelling of Guy FAUX and to see how he was dressed, and the boy with his hoop. I had forgotten about hoops, my mother had one which she said she had bowled to school which I remember well but I never learnt to bowl it. I doubt if any schoolchild would know what a hoop was now let alone realise how far children walked to attend school even up until the 1940s.

Thank you GA for another fascinating post I shall watch out for more almanacs like this now and what a charming way for children to learn the months of the year, the signs of the zodiac, how many days each months had and what each season brought for those in the country in such an appealing way. Olive was obviously a very lucky little girl.

]]> By: Amanda Bush https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/08/the-juvenile-almanac/#comment-1367404 Mon, 08 Feb 2021 09:59:52 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185396#comment-1367404 Enchanting!

]]> By: Julie Cruickshank https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/08/the-juvenile-almanac/#comment-1367403 Mon, 08 Feb 2021 09:34:11 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185396#comment-1367403 Such lovely drawings! It all looks so idyllic doesn’t it, although I know that life was hard in those days. Love your website.

]]> By: Paul Ridgway https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/08/the-juvenile-almanac/#comment-1367397 Mon, 08 Feb 2021 09:08:30 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185396#comment-1367397 It may sound corny but in reading this I found a tune running through my head, the hymn Lo! He comes with Clouds Ascending by Charles Wesley and it helps the reading along.
See The Englishs Hymnal Hymn No 7
Hymns Ancient & Modern No 51

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/08/the-juvenile-almanac/#comment-1367391 Mon, 08 Feb 2021 08:52:47 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185396#comment-1367391 I had the same thoughts as Wendy – ie these are charming, but I was surprised that snowdrops aren’t mentioned until April! There have been daffodils outside our local church since the end of January this year – I just hope they survive the Beast from the East…

]]> By: Nina Archer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/08/the-juvenile-almanac/#comment-1367390 Mon, 08 Feb 2021 08:37:37 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185396#comment-1367390 A lovely start to a snowy morning – thankyou GA

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