Comments on: The Tombs Of Old London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/09/19/the-tombs-of-old-london-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 Fri, 30 Sep 2022 08:02:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/09/19/the-tombs-of-old-london-o/#comment-1485271 Fri, 30 Sep 2022 08:02:32 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193074#comment-1485271 Absolutely fascinating! It is many years since I last visited Westminster Abbey, so a pilgrimage there is long overdue, as well as to other interesting burial grounds in the area. So many tombs that I wasn’t aware of while growing up in Chelsea. I especially would like to see that of Sir John Sloane, (I was christened at Holy Trinity Sloane Square, and attended both infant and junior schools of Holy Trinity just off Sloane Square). I sing with a Choral Society and always love when we perform anything by Handel. I stayed many times in Hogarth House near the Chiswick roundabout as a childhood friend’s grandparents were the caretakers there back in the 1950s. So many memories too through studying Shakespeare and other noteworthies. And I also have a soft spot for Laurence Sterne too, who’s fabulous home Shandy Hall and garden I’ve visited many times in Coxwold since my move to North Yorkshire 22 yrs ago. Big sigh, so many memories…

]]> By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/09/19/the-tombs-of-old-london-o/#comment-1483684 Mon, 19 Sep 2022 21:01:45 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193074#comment-1483684 Perfect images for this most momentous of days.
I watched the Queen’s funeral from Lugano in Switzerland with sadness for her death (I was in Scotland when she died), but also with joy as we have Charles III and a coronation to look forward to. A new era is ushered in and life goes on.

]]> By: CHERYL SIZOV https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/09/19/the-tombs-of-old-london-o/#comment-1483601 Mon, 19 Sep 2022 10:06:07 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193074#comment-1483601 Beautiful. And absolutely perfect for today. Thank you.

]]> By: Lewis Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/09/19/the-tombs-of-old-london-o/#comment-1483573 Mon, 19 Sep 2022 07:20:03 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193074#comment-1483573 Thank you for presenting these remarkable images. Is the name of the photographer (c. 1910) for the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society known?

]]> By: achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/09/19/the-tombs-of-old-london-o/#comment-1483571 Mon, 19 Sep 2022 07:15:35 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193074#comment-1483571 Connecting the personal grief to the bigger perspective of history — that’s what EVERYTHING says. And who better to put it into words than the Gentle Author.

+ + +  QUEEN  ELIZABETH  II  (1926 – 2022)   R.I.P.  + + +

+ + +  LONG  LIVE  KING  CHARLES  III  + + +

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Bill https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/09/19/the-tombs-of-old-london-o/#comment-1483521 Mon, 19 Sep 2022 00:42:24 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193074#comment-1483521 Thank you, so lovely. Tombs. Sigh.

Decades ago, a classmate hung over my shoulder as I wielded my pencil in art class.

“What are you doing, Bill?”

Holding said pencil in mid-air, I explained:

“I am designing my tomb.”

Quiz: What Italian artist executed the tomb of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, and what was the very horrible thing he did that made him skedaddle out of Florence so very fast?

And how did he die?

And where is he buried?

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