Comments on: Huguenot Soho

By: Keith

Keith — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 16:30:49 +0000

Simon De Charmes 1665-1734, of French Huguenot descent, and a family connection, worked as a clock and watch maker at the sign of the clock on the corner of Warwick Street, Charing Cross, London.

By: Bailey Jones

Bailey Jones — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 08:24:14 +0000

The Huguenots certainly liked their chapels. This reminds me of what they used to say about the working class districts of my home town, Bolton in Lancashire, that at one of each terraced street would be a Chapel and at the other end a pub. How the world has changed.

By: Saba

Saba — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 15:10:07 +0000

I also wrote a Huguenot-themed graduate thesis about those Huguenots who settled in the Hudson Valley north of New York City. Their homes, in the town of New Paltz, have now been meticulously restored and are open to the public.

By: Hels

Hels — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 10:07:47 +0000

Thank you.
A squillion years ago I wrote my Master’s Thesis on the Huguenots who fled (mainly) to England, after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Their skills in silver smithing and silk weaving were so special, I crawled around every museum and gallery that preserved their work. But even in Spitalfields and Soho I didn’t pay enough attention to the architecture and sculpture.