https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/02/25/the-costume-mantle-worker-i/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 25 Feb 2023 13:58:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/02/25/the-costume-mantle-worker-i/#comment-1502567 Sat, 25 Feb 2023 13:58:53 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=194897#comment-1502567 Memories of a by-gone era. My late father was a tailor in the Spitalfields area for many years. A trade handed down by his father and grandfather before that. Such pride in their work – now mostly carried out off-shore and mass produced by machinery.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/02/25/the-costume-mantle-worker-i/#comment-1502545 Sat, 25 Feb 2023 10:02:21 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=194897#comment-1502545 A brilliant concept to link images to an old document. Just a shame that more such linkages could not be made. Notably distinctive brickwork in several cases.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/02/25/the-costume-mantle-worker-i/#comment-1502537 Sat, 25 Feb 2023 08:14:34 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=194897#comment-1502537 I did an Open University BA some years ago, and my foundation course in the first year covered 26 years throughout the Victorian period, including a case study on Spitalfields and the Brick Lane area. We had an organised OU visit there one weekend, and I’ve been fascinated by the whole area ever since. It also explained more about my seamstress sister-in-law who was ashamed of her modest beginnings in the East End and didn’t like it even mentioned. She should have been absolutely proud of them!

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