Comments on: Receipts From London’s Oldest Ironmonger https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/06/29/receipts-from-londons-oldest-ironmonger/ 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, 29 Jun 2021 18:07:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: JAN MARSH https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/06/29/receipts-from-londons-oldest-ironmonger/#comment-1384345 Tue, 29 Jun 2021 18:07:24 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187738#comment-1384345 wickerer !!!
wonderful word

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/06/29/receipts-from-londons-oldest-ironmonger/#comment-1384336 Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:42:05 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187738#comment-1384336 25 yds Duck! I am intrigued.
A wonderful collection of receipts and just the sort of glimpse into the past that I enjoy. When growing up in London during the 1950s, my mother also put all receipts on a spike stuck in a round wooden base that no doubt my engineer father had made.

]]> By: sara midda https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/06/29/receipts-from-londons-oldest-ironmonger/#comment-1384323 Tue, 29 Jun 2021 12:46:31 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187738#comment-1384323 So glad they were kept.
Beautiful.
Thank you

Best wishesSara

]]> By: Ann V https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/06/29/receipts-from-londons-oldest-ironmonger/#comment-1384321 Tue, 29 Jun 2021 12:22:44 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187738#comment-1384321 Wonderful! A small glimpse at Social History of the 19th Century.

]]> By: Helen Butler https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/06/29/receipts-from-londons-oldest-ironmonger/#comment-1384309 Tue, 29 Jun 2021 09:37:02 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187738#comment-1384309 looks like they were put on a spike, I remember my parents putting their receipts on a spike.
Love the word wickerer, not come across that before

]]> By: Mary https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/06/29/receipts-from-londons-oldest-ironmonger/#comment-1384307 Tue, 29 Jun 2021 08:56:13 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=187738#comment-1384307 I am sure Mr Presland was a law abiding citizen, but I was slightly alarmed to see a receipt for the conversion of two guns and two separate receipts for thumbscrews. Hopefully these were not used on his customers to deter tardy payment. I wil be paying closer attention the next time I visit my local fishmonger.

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