Comments on: At Fishmongers’ Hall https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/05/11/at-fishmongers-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 Wed, 11 May 2022 13:14:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Grace Caruso https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/05/11/at-fishmongers-hall-o/#comment-1461475 Wed, 11 May 2022 13:14:14 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191643#comment-1461475 How is it possible that such a magnificent building has survived…?? The care and maintenance must require such dedication and skill… I cannot imagine that anything like this would be or could be built in this age of nondescript or worse yet – ugly architecture.
Thanks for taking the pictures for us. Oh… and I had forgotten that St. Peter was a fisherman.

]]> By: Rita https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/05/11/at-fishmongers-hall-o/#comment-1461462 Wed, 11 May 2022 12:21:14 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191643#comment-1461462 Who pays to maintain this Treasure Trove?
How do the public access it?
Given we are an Island of fishermen and our Fishing Industry has been decimated. It’s a sad reflection that you would be hard pressed to find a decent fishmonger these days.
But beautiful photos and interesting account to GA.

]]> By: ros https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/05/11/at-fishmongers-hall-o/#comment-1461460 Wed, 11 May 2022 12:20:10 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191643#comment-1461460 wonderful artefacts, beautifully photographed. Was one of the pikes shown hanging in the pink room among the makeshift weapons, along with a narwhal’s tooth and a fire extinguisher, used to halt the assailant as he ran away over London Bridge after killing two young people attending the same day conference as he was? I think that was in November 2019.

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/05/11/at-fishmongers-hall-o/#comment-1461412 Wed, 11 May 2022 09:23:39 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191643#comment-1461412 Fantastic! what a place and what history and wonderful paintings!

Thank you for sharing this.

Mark

]]> By: Paul Huckett https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/05/11/at-fishmongers-hall-o/#comment-1461359 Wed, 11 May 2022 05:32:26 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191643#comment-1461359 About ten years when I was about to travel to London , I contacted the Fishmongers Hall and expressed an interest in seeing the building and it’s furnishings, and in some detail . I spent my working life as an antique dealer and a collecting antiquarian based in Australia. They were delighted and agreed and I spent a memorable afternoon being graciously guided around their treasures . It’s a quite beautiful building with beautiful interiors and some wonderful furniture and a reminder of the important role fishmongers and all the allied trades had in the history of London . Your photos are superb . Thanks for the memories

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