Comments on: Along Old St

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 17:27:49 +0000

After reading your post above, I decided that I would give Old Street a well deserved MISS if I was ever in that area. However, your photos as always are a delight, so decided it was maybe worth visiting after all lol!

By: gkbowood

gkbowood — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 19:20:24 +0000

I see a pair barrels or the housing around jet engines. I guess your butt was sore after all that walking!

By: paul loften

paul loften — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 12:28:26 +0000

I have often felt an affinity to the Argos in Old Street. Perhaps because many moons ago I used to occasionally lunch at health food cafe, directly opposite the store and would gaze at the Argos frontage in the midst of delicious sushi. Thanks to you Gentle Author, I now know that the affinity lies deeper than the sushi roll. The sad story of Christoper Smart confined at St Lukes Asylum, perhaps at the location in the sole company of his cat Jeoffrey ,fills me with a sense of sadness. I dont know who to feel more sorry for, Jeoffrey for having to endure the endless prayers or Smart confined in such a sad condition just for an unpaid debt

By: Mathilde Grange

Mathilde Grange — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 09:59:26 +0000

More than a pair of buttocks, I see a pair of huge casks. Whatever it calls to mind, the design leaves much to be desired. Thank you for a wonderful walk through and around Old St.

By: Pauline Taylor

Pauline Taylor — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 09:50:33 +0000

Thank you GA, you have inspired me to make another effort to chase up the history of my family. My great grandparents, Samuel Denton Russell and Jane Mc Grath, both gave Old Street as their address when they got married, they then lived just to the north of the street where their first child, Samuel, who was sadly to die as an infant, was born, they then moved to Whitecross Street where Arthur, Jane, another Samuel and Alfred,(my grandfather), were born. I have explored the area on foot but I really know so little about what life must have been like for them. My great grandmother, Jane Russell, died very young, Arthur dropped dead in the street according to my aunt, maybe it was Old Street, Jane set up home with a married man in Pimlico near Downing Street and then disappears, Samuel emigrated to Canada and my grandfather moved to Colchester, at the eastern end of the Roman road that Old Street follows. I must try to find out more.

By: David Elliott

David Elliott — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 09:33:52 +0000

It is the Hat & Feathers at 2 Clerkenwell Road, not the Hand & Feathers

By: aubrey

aubrey — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 09:05:45 +0000

Not forgetting the longstanding magistrates’ court, now converted into the posh Courthouse Hotel.

By: Bernie

Bernie — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 08:55:07 +0000

How ashamed of myself does this make me! As a child and adolescent Old St was a frequent location in my comings and goings yet never did I give its history a moment’s thought. Alas, alas! Woe is me!

By: JohnB

JohnB — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 05:29:01 +0000

I’ve always found Old St. a long walk too, I think because it’s uninteresting. Is the Hat and Feathers (not Hand) open these days? It was closed for the whole 12 or so years I worked in Northburg Street.
I’m still loving Spitalfields Life, all these years down the road, thank you!