Comments on: The High Days & Holidays Of Old London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/03/the-highdays-holidays-of-old-london-o/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 05 May 2021 01:16:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Pamela Traves https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/03/the-highdays-holidays-of-old-london-o/#comment-1377022 Wed, 05 May 2021 01:16:55 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186809#comment-1377022 ]]> These Wonderful Vintage Holiday Pictures are Wonderful. I have Really Enjoyed it!!??????✨

]]> By: Kelly Holman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/03/the-highdays-holidays-of-old-london-o/#comment-1376926 Tue, 04 May 2021 09:24:05 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186809#comment-1376926 Another wonderful collection, thank you. How we all need these high days and human connection.
I was also delighted to discover there is a church called St. Andrew by the Wardrobe. Fantastic.

]]> By: Dan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/03/the-highdays-holidays-of-old-london-o/#comment-1376841 Mon, 03 May 2021 20:34:39 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186809#comment-1376841 Ha! Here’s me regularly getting exasperated with the littering that goes on today, as if it’s a modern societal problem, and there’s Hampstead looking like a landfill site in 1930!!

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/03/the-highdays-holidays-of-old-london-o/#comment-1376815 Mon, 03 May 2021 16:23:37 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186809#comment-1376815 Wonderful, wonderful images of places I know so well. I believe the annual Pancake Greaze still takes places every Shrove Tuesday at Westminster School.

]]> By: Lizebeth https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/03/the-highdays-holidays-of-old-london-o/#comment-1376802 Mon, 03 May 2021 14:00:31 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186809#comment-1376802 What strikes me is the fact that all of these people are so PRESENT. Everyone is sharing with everyone else, and everyone is concentrating on getting the most out of the experience — even the children. This is something our society today has totally lost. Perhaps when we can finally enjoy being part of a crowd again, we will wish to participate in the reality of other people a bit more? One can only hope.

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/03/the-highdays-holidays-of-old-london-o/#comment-1376793 Mon, 03 May 2021 11:28:52 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186809#comment-1376793 Greetings from Boston,

GA, what a great collection of happy London scenes – such variety. My favorites are: “Walls Ice Cream vendor, c.1920;” “A cycle excursion to The Spotted Dog in West Ham, 1930;” and “Pancake Greaze at Westminster School on Shrove Tuesday, c.1910” – to name a few.

Such fun!

]]> By: Maggie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/03/the-highdays-holidays-of-old-london-o/#comment-1376791 Mon, 03 May 2021 11:02:13 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186809#comment-1376791 This feels so uplifting!

]]> By: achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/03/the-highdays-holidays-of-old-london-o/#comment-1376790 Mon, 03 May 2021 10:56:25 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186809#comment-1376790 Pictures from that time are always highly interesting. I’m experiencing this at the moment because I’m going through my father’s archive. He was born in GDAŃSK in 1926 and passed away peacefully at home after Easter this year.

The following short film provides an impressive insight into the time when my father was a child:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8swtX7NLoQ

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Mathilde Grange https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/03/the-highdays-holidays-of-old-london-o/#comment-1376785 Mon, 03 May 2021 09:04:43 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186809#comment-1376785 Greeat post. I checked what was “Beating bounds” (a very old tradition, apparently), but my favorite is the “Pancake Greaze” (I checked that one to0.) I quite like the “Litterbugs” followed by the anti-litter band. Thank you.

]]> By: Robert Parsons https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/03/the-highdays-holidays-of-old-london-o/#comment-1376778 Mon, 03 May 2021 07:14:17 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186809#comment-1376778 Wall’s ice cream still used the three wheeled bike in Gloucester up until the late 80’s with a local celebrity rider, a Mr Knipe and boy could be give the lorries a run for their money.

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