Comments on: Down A Well In Spitalfields https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/04/20/down-a-well-in-spitalfields-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 Tue, 20 Apr 2021 13:09:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Christina Scofield https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/04/20/down-a-well-in-spitalfields-x/#comment-1374972 Tue, 20 Apr 2021 13:09:19 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186633#comment-1374972 fascinating

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/04/20/down-a-well-in-spitalfields-x/#comment-1374966 Tue, 20 Apr 2021 11:32:47 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186633#comment-1374966 Greetings from Boston,

GA, what a wonderful look you have provided into the everyday life of our predecessors seven centuries hence. Thank you for that excursion into the treasures at the Museum of London. –“The intimacy of objects that have seen so much use conjures the presence of the people who ate and drank with them.”

Amen.

]]> By: paul loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/04/20/down-a-well-in-spitalfields-x/#comment-1374964 Tue, 20 Apr 2021 11:29:22 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186633#comment-1374964 In the 90’s I read a short article in the New Scientist magazine that a university had discovered sounds within the structures of ancient artefacts that they were able to pick up with a new sound technology they were developing. The article reasoned that possibly sound waves of the past trapped in the objects by chance in the same way as in the process of a manufactured vinyl disc . I never saw any further reports on the result of the research. Wouldn’t it be wonderful and perhaps a bit scary if it was possible?
One could only imagine listening to the sounds of the Hospital and the noises of the unfortunate patients eating their dinner. On the other hand perhaps the sounds would be better left to go their own way .
Thank you GA and also the Museum of London for bringing us this very interesting article

]]> By: Kelly Holman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/04/20/down-a-well-in-spitalfields-x/#comment-1374951 Tue, 20 Apr 2021 08:38:16 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186633#comment-1374951 I am captivated by the idea of being able to smell the Fire of London in 2021! Thank you for retrieving a story from the eleven miles of rolling shelves. The items and your words conveyed wonderfully the sense you can have sometimes of people and place long since disappeared in a physical sense and yet somehow leaving an impression that is almost palpable.

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