Comments on: In Search Of Horace Warner https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/17/in-search-of-horace-warner-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 Sat, 10 Apr 2021 15:35:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: the gentle author https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/17/in-search-of-horace-warner-x/#comment-1373620 Sat, 10 Apr 2021 15:35:53 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185625#comment-1373620 In reply to Nuala Kiely.

The album of Horace Warner’s photos remains in the safe keeping of his family. I published them all in the book SPITALFIELDS NIPPERS and Bishopsgate Institute has a scan of the album in its archive. https://spitalfieldslife.bigcartel.com/product/spitalfields-nippers-by-horace-warner-published-by-spitalfields-life-books-on-1st-november

]]> By: Nuala Kiely https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/17/in-search-of-horace-warner-x/#comment-1373618 Sat, 10 Apr 2021 15:06:04 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185625#comment-1373618 My friend’s Nan was one of the Nippers. Do you know where the photos are kept and whether there is access to them.
Thanks
Nuala

]]> By: Jenny https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/17/in-search-of-horace-warner-x/#comment-1369046 Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:14:16 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185625#comment-1369046 A very interesting read. I worked in the Essex Road building back in the 1980s and had no idea of its history until now. I can see why it had those large windows that let in so much light.

]]> By: Boudica Redd https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/17/in-search-of-horace-warner-x/#comment-1368719 Thu, 18 Feb 2021 07:18:50 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185625#comment-1368719 Bravo great pics and story

]]> By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/17/in-search-of-horace-warner-x/#comment-1368665 Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:18:25 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185625#comment-1368665 That poor wee lass Adelaide, her only pair of boots are falling apart. My late mother grew up in a poor mining village in Scotland between the wars and she told me it wasn’t unusual to see children with no shoes. She was from a family of 9, they were very poor and my granny was widowed by the time she was about 40, her husband had been gassed in the trenches; after WW1 he worked as a miner which finished his lungs off. When I see old photos of very poor children living hard lives I never complain about my lot. My mother was a weaver in a carpet factory at the age of 14. We are so lucky now.

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/17/in-search-of-horace-warner-x/#comment-1368659 Wed, 17 Feb 2021 14:14:05 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185625#comment-1368659 It seems some of the commentators on here think that present day kids live in a land of milk and honey. Not heard of food banks, parents having to choose between heating or food?
His pictures are a grim reminder that things were terrible for the poor, but only improve when governments, like Atlees, post 2nd world war, set up the N.H.S., Benefits System, Nationalisation, etc.
We have been going backwards for since Thatcher the milk snatcher. Never trust a tory. Wicked. They don’t care.

]]> By: paul loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/17/in-search-of-horace-warner-x/#comment-1368654 Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:16:19 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185625#comment-1368654 This is a book worth owning, specially if it is offered at a discount . My experience of meeting Quakers has been limited although very favourable. I was once learning to play the saxophone and had nowhere to practice living in a flat, the noise would drive my neighbours mad . I knew of a local Friends house in Tottenham and I would call on a Quaker family to collect the key . They were truly wonderful and friendly people and allowed me to practice twice weekly in the secluded hall. Unfortunately after a while the arrangement had to stop , due to their new insurance regulations they could not allow anybody on their own into the meeting house. I remember how sorry they were . I then tried a to hire a local church hall in Stoke Newington and when I called at the rectors house, next to the hall, to explain why I wanted to hire the hall he replied to me “Why don’t you try your local synagogue “and shut the door in my face . I still wonder to this day what playing the sax has to do with religion

]]> By: VANDA HUMAN https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/17/in-search-of-horace-warner-x/#comment-1368642 Wed, 17 Feb 2021 11:06:01 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185625#comment-1368642 The children of today wouldn’t last a week doing the work that these youngsters had to do. No shoes no matter how cold it was, ragged clothing, not much to play with. Now days they must have designer labels, the latest and most up to date cellphones, computers, laptops, etc.

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/17/in-search-of-horace-warner-x/#comment-1368621 Wed, 17 Feb 2021 07:50:56 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185625#comment-1368621 I can only recommend it: the SPITALFIELDS NIPPERS is one of the greatest books of THE SPITALFIELDS LIFE BOOKSHOP.

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: James Harris https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/17/in-search-of-horace-warner-x/#comment-1368615 Wed, 17 Feb 2021 06:37:30 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185625#comment-1368615 I treasure the book Spitalfields Nippers. Poverty is relative to the wealth of others at any point in time. This collection of Horace Warner’s photographs is a stark illustration of absolute poverty in financial terms but it gives me a feeling of their personal wealth in social togetherness, love and care amongst immediate families.

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