Comments on: Beano Time https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/20/beano-time/ 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, 21 Jul 2021 18:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/20/beano-time/#comment-1387692 Wed, 21 Jul 2021 18:55:00 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=188093#comment-1387692 Wonderful images of happy days

]]> By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/20/beano-time/#comment-1387664 Wed, 21 Jul 2021 16:01:10 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=188093#comment-1387664 These are such cheerful photos, they all look to have been going on a grand day out and I expect they all had happy memories of those fun filled days. Outings and bus trips were really important to hard working people.

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/20/beano-time/#comment-1387353 Tue, 20 Jul 2021 12:53:44 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=188093#comment-1387353 Greetings from Boston,

GA, what great pics from those old get-togethers. Interesting how these folks dressed up for these occasions – men in suit and tie and gals in their finery. I got a kick out of the third pic down. The lady on the left in white looks as if she is attending a wedding.

I have a similar photo of my mother at a huge “shop picnic” (they were shoe workers) taken in the 1930s in Lynn, MA. They did not call them “beanos,” but the anticipation and fun were still the same.

]]> By: Sarah B Guest Perry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/20/beano-time/#comment-1387349 Tue, 20 Jul 2021 12:39:09 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=188093#comment-1387349 Those look like so much fun . . .. if they were having one here I’d sign up today. Thank you for posting about it

]]> By: Robin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/20/beano-time/#comment-1387336 Tue, 20 Jul 2021 11:43:52 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=188093#comment-1387336 So wonderful to see people being companionable together. We should take the example and strive for more of that these days.

]]> By: Craig Sams https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/20/beano-time/#comment-1387310 Tue, 20 Jul 2021 09:38:31 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=188093#comment-1387310 Interesting to note how the standard of men’s dress went from ties and jackets in the 50s to a much more casual look by the 60s. Did everyone know the words to the songs or did the accordionist hand out song sheets with the lyrics?

]]> By: Peter Holford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/20/beano-time/#comment-1387289 Tue, 20 Jul 2021 08:23:21 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=188093#comment-1387289 What a great tradition. I’m lucky to have inherited photos of my granddad’s day out in about 1925 with the Hackney Licensed Victuallers’ Association. Eight photos of him and his brother (both Hackney publicans) with their mates crammed into a charabanc for a day out (no luggage on board) – to Land’s End! They made it as the photos in front of the Land’s End Hotel prove and the two pictures of Clovelly. That’s a distance of 600 miles probably at an average speed of less than 30 mph with minimal stopping time.

]]> By: keithb https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/20/beano-time/#comment-1387254 Tue, 20 Jul 2021 06:14:09 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=188093#comment-1387254 Those accordionists may have earned a fortune but I imagine they would have to have known their tunes! Or at least have been able to mug their way through a large range of songs.

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