Comments on: The Mystery Of Isabelle Barker’s Hat https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/23/the-mystery-of-isabelle-barkers-hat-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 Tue, 03 Aug 2021 09:24:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: michael hardie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/23/the-mystery-of-isabelle-barkers-hat-o/#comment-1392143 Tue, 03 Aug 2021 09:24:56 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=188149#comment-1392143 lovely story Fay.
Takes us back to the young wives (Dorcas Guild)
Love and laughter,
Doreen and Mick.

]]> By: Guillaume https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/23/the-mystery-of-isabelle-barkers-hat-o/#comment-1389036 Mon, 26 Jul 2021 20:09:53 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=188149#comment-1389036 Ah, that dimple in Dennis Severs’ chin!

]]> By: Kelly Holman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/23/the-mystery-of-isabelle-barkers-hat-o/#comment-1388332 Sat, 24 Jul 2021 09:38:43 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=188149#comment-1388332 Such a wonderful story. Thank you.

]]> By: Lizebeth https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/23/the-mystery-of-isabelle-barkers-hat-o/#comment-1388170 Fri, 23 Jul 2021 17:10:09 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=188149#comment-1388170 What a mysterious and wonderful object is that hat. This brings back memories of meeting Dennis. My first time at the House, and there was meant to be a children’s tour, but I was so desperate to go there that I said I would be happy to work around them, if they could manage it. Turns out, the tour was cancelled, so I had a delightful hour or so with Dennis himself. The house is a tour de force of imagination, combined with history. Thank you to all the wonderful people who still maintain and treasure it.

]]> By: Linda Granfield https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/23/the-mystery-of-isabelle-barkers-hat-o/#comment-1388107 Fri, 23 Jul 2021 10:49:31 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=188149#comment-1388107 A fascinating woman–thank you for the introduction!

And the photograph of the hat? I thought I was looking at an oil painting!

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/23/the-mystery-of-isabelle-barkers-hat-o/#comment-1388080 Fri, 23 Jul 2021 08:14:36 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=188149#comment-1388080 A wonderful insight. I look forward to visiting as soon as possible

]]> By: Howard Kenward https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/23/the-mystery-of-isabelle-barkers-hat-o/#comment-1388074 Fri, 23 Jul 2021 07:29:23 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=188149#comment-1388074 Thanks you so much for this. I knew Isabel Barker from 1976, when I arrived in the East End from Sussex, until 2001, when my family and I moved down to Bournemouth. She was a kind, indomitable, and remarkable individual. Talking to her was a history lesson in itself. This is a lovely record of a remarkable woman.

]]> By: Clare Burgess https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/23/the-mystery-of-isabelle-barkers-hat-o/#comment-1388063 Fri, 23 Jul 2021 06:30:41 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=188149#comment-1388063 We attended Denis’s wonderful tour after my husband did some ornate plasterwork for him. In the scene played out in the smoking room it would’ve be hard to notice anything in the background, since the invisible action that played out before us grabbed all of our attention. Entering this room to survey the scene of a just left tea, certain that the occupants had scuttled out of the other door to avoid us, and then realising that the tablescape exactly replicated the painting hung on the wall behind, is the moment I remember above all others on his incredibly evocative, theatrical tour. It was breathtaking!

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