Comments on: At The Drapers’ Hall https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/15/at-the-drapers-hall-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, 23 Nov 2021 07:17:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Carolyn Hooper https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/15/at-the-drapers-hall-o/#comment-1437318 Tue, 23 Nov 2021 07:17:59 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189466#comment-1437318 I’m speechless……..

Enormous thanks, gentle author for bringing this account and beautiful photos to us. Amazing!

I would be simply overjoyed to own the courtyard!!

Carolyn

]]> By: Graham https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/15/at-the-drapers-hall-o/#comment-1436258 Sat, 20 Nov 2021 10:48:41 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189466#comment-1436258 The livery hall has just been renovated/redecorated to stunning effect – the photos here show it as it was before this. The hall is usually open as part of the London Open Houses weekend in September with no need to book. It is otherwise rented out for events (with income helping cover the costs of maintaining the building) and used by the Drapers in support of their corporate and charitable activities.

]]> By: Richard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/15/at-the-drapers-hall-o/#comment-1435719 Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:51:37 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189466#comment-1435719 I remember encountering that staggering entrance when I was taking a walk around Bank area. And the garden around the side. I agree, a great place for a concert. Do they do weddins?

]]> By: Pence https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/15/at-the-drapers-hall-o/#comment-1434888 Mon, 15 Nov 2021 18:21:40 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189466#comment-1434888 Glouious building. I am so glad it has survived.

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/15/at-the-drapers-hall-o/#comment-1434867 Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:32:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189466#comment-1434867 Stunning building. Love the garden too.

]]> By: Celeste Larkin -Dion https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/15/at-the-drapers-hall-o/#comment-1434858 Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:46:21 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189466#comment-1434858 A treasure !!

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/15/at-the-drapers-hall-o/#comment-1434841 Mon, 15 Nov 2021 13:45:22 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189466#comment-1434841 Cue the harpsichord music. I think I’ll just join you, GA, in a major case of Over Awe.
Those nearby soulless glass-and-steel towers appear, like a lava flow, ready to engulf all of this impeccable beauty and tradition.
Dare I say, the vintage photos did not do it justice. So glad to have a present-day glimpse at this amazing location. (those gargoyles!!!???)
Stay safe, all.

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/15/at-the-drapers-hall-o/#comment-1434833 Mon, 15 Nov 2021 13:01:40 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189466#comment-1434833 Greetings from Boston,

GA, what a fabulous description and pics of Drapers Hall. So glad it has been saved from the wrecking ball of urban development. What a history!

]]> By: Claire Leavey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/15/at-the-drapers-hall-o/#comment-1434814 Mon, 15 Nov 2021 11:17:50 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189466#comment-1434814 Thirty years ago, I worked for a lawyer who at that time was Master. I accompanied him on several visits during his tenure, including once when they were doing an afternoon run-through for a dramatic reading by Micheline Wandor in celebration of the Hall’s surviving the Great Fire. The Queen was expected that evening, a narrow stage had been erected along the long wall of the great hall shown in the photos, and the space was being filled with hundreds of chairs. I stood on the balcony and looked down at what felt more like preparations for a school play, with a posh chair front and centre for the head of governors, than anything else. It blew my mind to think that lovely private entertainments like that – in sequestered grand buildings like this – occur throughout the City on a regular basis, yet you can walk the EC postcodes from one end to the other at night, and see nothing but buses and the occasional stray tourist. Even more surreal was repairing at one point to the Master’s private apartment for a fine bone china mug of PG Tips in the butler’s kitchen.

]]> By: Lorraine https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/15/at-the-drapers-hall-o/#comment-1434809 Mon, 15 Nov 2021 10:59:07 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189466#comment-1434809 Opulence is the word! Does anyone know what the building is used for now?

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