https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/09/in-the-debtors-cell-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 Mon, 11 Oct 2021 20:23:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/09/in-the-debtors-cell-x/#comment-1419754 Mon, 11 Oct 2021 20:23:36 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189126#comment-1419754 Thank you for this very evocative post. I love finding out more about Wellclose Square, especially as I know live close by.
St Peter’s school is actually called St Paul’s Primary with the golden ship as its logo.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/09/in-the-debtors-cell-x/#comment-1419527 Mon, 11 Oct 2021 09:42:31 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189126#comment-1419527 A very moving and poignant write up, although I’d never before made the connection between the spelling of “deptors” to that of “Deptford”. As you say, a particularly plangent detail.
I’d always thought of graffiti as ‘vandalism’ – until that is I was invited to attend a conference at Winchester University 3 yrs ago, of which it’s sole purpose was ‘Graffiti’. As a research volunteer with English Heritage, I’d been working on a graffiti project at Richmond Castle in North Yorkshire, marking the centenary of WWI where the cell block walls at the Castle are covered in graffiti written by Conscientious Objectors during WWI and beyond. A fascinating project!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/09/in-the-debtors-cell-x/#comment-1419014 Sun, 10 Oct 2021 09:01:58 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189126#comment-1419014 Difficult to put it better than Robin but thank you for this reminder that compassion is as important now as it ever has been. Such a powerful piece.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/09/in-the-debtors-cell-x/#comment-1418710 Sat, 09 Oct 2021 18:16:57 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189126#comment-1418710 Dear GA, thank you for being willing to share the distressing details of your own brush with poverty, to make us stop and think more carefully about the people who made these graffiti. You present a humbling lesson to us all about the obligation to recognize our interdependence, our common humanity, and to help each other in times of need.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/09/in-the-debtors-cell-x/#comment-1418693 Sat, 09 Oct 2021 17:11:35 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189126#comment-1418693 What an amazing (and touching) piece of social history. Thanks GA, especially for the photos, which cannot have been easy to take

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/09/in-the-debtors-cell-x/#comment-1418681 Sat, 09 Oct 2021 16:46:45 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189126#comment-1418681 A very humbling experience. I felt the same thing going in a workhouse.
Andy

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/09/in-the-debtors-cell-x/#comment-1418616 Sat, 09 Oct 2021 13:45:43 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189126#comment-1418616 Within a few paragraphs, you set a mood, paid deference and brought us to another time – not altogether dissimilar from our own

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/09/in-the-debtors-cell-x/#comment-1418522 Sat, 09 Oct 2021 09:33:25 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189126#comment-1418522 Fascinating. Truly we all have our own story to tell. I think I may have ended inside carving my thoughts in the wood too.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/09/in-the-debtors-cell-x/#comment-1418465 Sat, 09 Oct 2021 06:20:08 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189126#comment-1418465 Yet another amazing blog: thank you!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/09/in-the-debtors-cell-x/#comment-1418464 Sat, 09 Oct 2021 06:11:18 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189126#comment-1418464 A poignant piece GA. They all existed once as we do now. But our footprint is less permanent. Who will remember our marks as they evaporate in our internet world? I had no idea they had such private prisons in days gone by. Thank you.

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