Comments on: The Staircases Of Old London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/12/the-staircases-of-old-london-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 Thu, 17 Feb 2022 02:25:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: NoOneYouKnow https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/12/the-staircases-of-old-london-x/#comment-1449593 Thu, 17 Feb 2022 02:25:05 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190613#comment-1449593 It’s a nice pun how the Girdlers’ Hall staircase completes a circle.

]]> By: Julie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/12/the-staircases-of-old-london-x/#comment-1449292 Sat, 12 Feb 2022 21:20:20 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190613#comment-1449292 I am so grateful that I found your site several years ago!

The history of the guildhalls is engrossing and you have sent me on many a quest for additional information on their history in London. I am amazed at the wealth that they displayed in their architectural projects. A much different story here in the U.S. for our union headquarters. Was their wealth used properly for the retirees at the homes the guilds built and maintained? Perhaps you wrote an entry on this and I missed it.

I also find the photos snd etchings that you have published on the the river steps enjoyable-and to honest, slightly sinister looking in the original black and white photos!. I only wish that the York stairs had been on our places to see list when we were in London many years ago.

Thank you for your hard work!

]]> By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/12/the-staircases-of-old-london-x/#comment-1449274 Sat, 12 Feb 2022 16:44:49 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190613#comment-1449274 I could visualise myself making a grand entrance down some of these magnificent staircases – not the one at Traitor’s Gate though!

]]> By: Mathilde Grange https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/12/the-staircases-of-old-london-x/#comment-1449270 Sat, 12 Feb 2022 15:31:57 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190613#comment-1449270 What a splendid collection! Some of these staircases are absolutely stunning. Cromwell HOuse Hospital’s staircase has magnificent carvings, but I also very much like Girdler’s Hall, 2 Arlington St, Grocers’ Hall and 1, Horse Guards Av. , they surge upwards so lightly… Thank you, dear G.A.

]]> By: Marnie Sweet https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/12/the-staircases-of-old-london-x/#comment-1449268 Sat, 12 Feb 2022 14:59:35 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190613#comment-1449268 Wonderful collection of elegant old staircases, GA, which beckon us to venture further in time and distance. How weary I am of modern tasteless box-like stairways. Small wonder kids lack imagination.

Have you done a ‘Then and Now’ of the amazing variety of stairs down to the Thames foreshore?

]]> By: Mary https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/12/the-staircases-of-old-london-x/#comment-1449251 Sat, 12 Feb 2022 09:43:01 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190613#comment-1449251 I suddenly shot back 60 years! I had an overwhelming urge to slide down those handrails – but think I may come to grief on some of those impressive newel posts!

]]> By: Roger Button https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/12/the-staircases-of-old-london-x/#comment-1449249 Sat, 12 Feb 2022 09:17:26 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190613#comment-1449249 So beautiful! Where have all the craftspeople gone who used to be able to make such things?

]]> By: Jonathan Fink https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/12/the-staircases-of-old-london-x/#comment-1449245 Sat, 12 Feb 2022 08:43:45 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190613#comment-1449245 Fantastic article – the old images are superb, and so atmospheric. Other sets of stairs to look out for: the lost main stairs at Charterhouse, burned during WWII, and the ingenious cantilever stairs in one of buildings off Lincoln’s Inn Fields, designed by Sir John Soane

]]> By: Rick Armiger https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/12/the-staircases-of-old-london-x/#comment-1449244 Sat, 12 Feb 2022 08:42:40 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190613#comment-1449244 many thanks for including one or two derelict ramshackle ones

]]> By: Sally Kindberg https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/12/the-staircases-of-old-london-x/#comment-1449242 Sat, 12 Feb 2022 08:25:03 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190613#comment-1449242 What a fabulous post, thank you Gentle Author. Do you have any information about the photographer or photographers who took these? The images are indeed so evocative of people who may have used the staircases, as well as being of architectural interest

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