Comments on: Around Billingsgate https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/10/03/around-billingsgate/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 03 Oct 2022 18:43:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Penny Gardner https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/10/03/around-billingsgate/#comment-1485780 Mon, 03 Oct 2022 18:43:28 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193272#comment-1485780 My Great Grandad was in Bilingsgate Fish Porter .
Richard Gardner
They called him ‘Fishy Dick’.
He emigrated to North Ontario for a better life .

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/10/03/around-billingsgate/#comment-1485777 Mon, 03 Oct 2022 17:40:18 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193272#comment-1485777 Vibrant and lovely.
Many of them reminiscent of the great Charles Cushman.
Thanks for showing.

]]> By: Mary https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/10/03/around-billingsgate/#comment-1485763 Mon, 03 Oct 2022 16:25:12 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193272#comment-1485763 I am sure the Billingsgate moggy had plenty of “fishees on little dishees”.

]]> By: Adele Lester https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/10/03/around-billingsgate/#comment-1485737 Mon, 03 Oct 2022 13:50:22 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193272#comment-1485737 Criminal that a building like the old Coal Exchange was demolished! Great photos.

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/10/03/around-billingsgate/#comment-1485732 Mon, 03 Oct 2022 13:14:04 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193272#comment-1485732 GA, we just did a bit of snooping and found out that the Blackfriar Pub was in danger of being demolished in the 1960s, but was saved. Looking at photos of the current exterior and interior (online), we can’t wait to visit. Let’s meet up, and we’re treating.

Hip hip hooray!

]]> By: Mathilde Grange https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/10/03/around-billingsgate/#comment-1485699 Mon, 03 Oct 2022 08:53:07 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193272#comment-1485699 What a pity some of these buidings and sites no longer exist.

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