Comments on: The Wallpaper Of Spitalfields https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/27/the-wallpaper-of-spitalfields-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 Sun, 07 Nov 2021 11:36:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Bob Davenport https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/27/the-wallpaper-of-spitalfields-x/#comment-1432355 Sun, 07 Nov 2021 11:36:06 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189342#comment-1432355 When, after the death of my mother, I sold the house where she and my father (who’d died some thirty years earlier) had lived all their married lives, I dropped their wedding rings through a gap between the floorboards under the stairs before leaving the house for the last time. It seemed the most appropriate place for them. Perhaps a similar sentiment applies here.

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/27/the-wallpaper-of-spitalfields-x/#comment-1429398 Sun, 31 Oct 2021 09:08:17 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189342#comment-1429398 What an amazing restoration by John Nicholson. A heartwarming story.
In response to Lynne Perellas’ comment: My mother lost her wedding ring in Woolworth’s at Mitcham Surrey back in the 1960s. She had arthritis and would put the ring in her purse when her fingers swelled and she’d had to take it off. She went to pay for something and heard the tinkle as the ring fell on to the floor, sadly disappearing down one of the cracks in the parquet style wooden floors that Woollies had back then. The ring was never recovered, but we always wondered if anyone discovered it when the Mitcham Woolworth’s was demolished!

]]> By: Liz Coviello https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/27/the-wallpaper-of-spitalfields-x/#comment-1427519 Thu, 28 Oct 2021 02:01:23 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189342#comment-1427519 Thanks you for sharing this amazing history of your house and the area. I moved into an 1849s house and there was old wall paper in a cupboard but unfortunately I was unable to trace them or do anything about them. You make me wish I had done now.

]]> By: Emmie Pollard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/27/the-wallpaper-of-spitalfields-x/#comment-1427420 Wed, 27 Oct 2021 21:13:57 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189342#comment-1427420 What a great commentary on the past through wallpaper. Is there ever an open house?

]]> By: C Scofield https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/27/the-wallpaper-of-spitalfields-x/#comment-1427393 Wed, 27 Oct 2021 20:05:55 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189342#comment-1427393 A wonderful read! Exquisite palette of colors

]]> By: Sonia Murray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/27/the-wallpaper-of-spitalfields-x/#comment-1427250 Wed, 27 Oct 2021 14:58:08 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189342#comment-1427250 What a loving remembrance of the families who lived in this house and enjoyed the varied styles of wallpaper! The delicate blue and white of the 1780’s and the 1960’s golden honesty pattern are lovely, and should be brought to the attention of modern wallpaper manufacturers, for revival.

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/27/the-wallpaper-of-spitalfields-x/#comment-1427188 Wed, 27 Oct 2021 12:26:53 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189342#comment-1427188 I’m enthralled! At first, I was totally caught up in the shards of paper (tell me: What could be better?) — but when I saw the collection of “under the floor board” relics, I was hooked.

“a wedding ring”. Well. Now, I am writing scenarios in my mind about that ring. Some of them are the “oh shucks” feeling that follows a dropped ring that rolls just out of reach. Down a drain, in between old floor boards, etc. OK, fine. But there are endless other plot lines. A secret/double life perhaps? A sinister tale? A ring that was saved-for, but never given? A family heirloom, out of sight, out of mind? Its endless.

Thanks for tweaking my imagination today!

]]> By: Jennifer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/27/the-wallpaper-of-spitalfields-x/#comment-1427175 Wed, 27 Oct 2021 12:02:16 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189342#comment-1427175 This might be one of my favorite posts of yours yet. Fascinating to see and think about, and a wonderful document of style and life. Love the research it must have taken to determine the piece that had been costly. I’m curious how he was able to retrieve the various fragments, if they had been applied on top of one another?

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/27/the-wallpaper-of-spitalfields-x/#comment-1427166 Wed, 27 Oct 2021 11:46:09 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189342#comment-1427166 Highly interesting. When Kassel was destroyed in 1943, there were only rubble houses. The rubble of these houses was heaped up after the war to form a hillside (Rosenhang).

The recycling artist Wolfgang Luh has made countless finds from this slope public in an exhibition. Among them were many pieces from past centuries. A very similar documentary work as John Nicolson is practicing.

Sorry, the video is in German:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9qti0dMTQ8&t=839s

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Graham Parker https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/27/the-wallpaper-of-spitalfields-x/#comment-1427158 Wed, 27 Oct 2021 11:09:13 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189342#comment-1427158 While I love the idea of a former resident scrimping and saving to enjoy something beautiful at 6d/yd, given the proximity to the docks isn’t it more likely that a few rolls ‘fell off the back of a lorry?’

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