https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/06/25/tom-jerrys-life-in-london-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 Fri, 25 Jun 2021 17:18:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/06/25/tom-jerrys-life-in-london-x/#comment-1384039 Fri, 25 Jun 2021 17:18:21 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187700#comment-1384039 Fascinating to look at these witty pictorial satires close up. Lots of humour mixed in with sharp political commentary on class relations. It is easy to see why he was such a perfect collaborator for Dickens. Love it!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/06/25/tom-jerrys-life-in-london-x/#comment-1384030 Fri, 25 Jun 2021 13:09:28 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187700#comment-1384030 Topping stuff!
Fantastic illustrations and listened to a wonderful adaption on Radio 4 Xtra recently. Available on the i player folks, or B.B.C. Sounds.
Take the illustrations with you when listening…..

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/06/25/tom-jerrys-life-in-london-x/#comment-1384020 Fri, 25 Jun 2021 09:06:19 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187700#comment-1384020 What a splendid collection! I have not seen many of these illustrations before – some don’t appear in the edition of ‘Tom and Jerry’ on my bookshelf. Interesting that ‘Strong Symptoms of Water on the Brain in the Floating Capital’ appears to depict the Thames flooding Sir Marc Brunel’s incomplete Thames Tunnel between Rotherhithe and Wapping in May 1827. The tunnel workings flooded again the next year and for this Marc’s son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was awarded the Royal Humane Society’s silver medal for the rescue of five workers.

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