Comments on: Sarah Ainslie’s Hatton Garden Portraits https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/04/14/sarah-ainslies-hatton-garden-portraits-x/ 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, 17 Apr 2023 01:56:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Carolyn Hooper https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/04/14/sarah-ainslies-hatton-garden-portraits-x/#comment-1507075 Mon, 17 Apr 2023 01:56:36 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195410#comment-1507075 Totally absorbing post, gentle author. Thank you so much to bring this story across the ether to me in Australia. Of course, I know very few in the UK would be allowed into some of these spaces.

So pleased that one woman is included in this story as I’m sure, had she been permitted to join the men, she would have achieved wonderfully. But, hey…..she has!!!

]]> By: Debra. E. Sewell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/04/14/sarah-ainslies-hatton-garden-portraits-x/#comment-1506763 Fri, 14 Apr 2023 13:57:07 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195410#comment-1506763 Spectacular article. I’m amazed at their skill and work.

Thank you for a peek into their lives.

Debra Sewell

]]> By: Paul Loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/04/14/sarah-ainslies-hatton-garden-portraits-x/#comment-1506756 Fri, 14 Apr 2023 12:25:54 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195410#comment-1506756 Some of these names I know well . Although compared to these master craftsmen I am just a hobbyist that took up a bit of silversmith and Jewellery work after I retired from my work . I have an excellent book on polishing by Stephen Goldsmith .
So I can appreciate their skill and dedication . It truly is a wonderful craft that absorbs your mind and exercises your imagination. Even in this trade technology ,computer and machinery have taken over where hands and brains once ruled. Some people say it’s progress personally I don’t think so.

]]> By: Jan Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/04/14/sarah-ainslies-hatton-garden-portraits-x/#comment-1506753 Fri, 14 Apr 2023 11:55:05 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195410#comment-1506753 This article is fascinating. My great great grandfather was a watchmaker and jeweller: William Parker of Parker and Stone, Clerkenwell, London. One of his sons, George, came out to Australia in 1847 as a 17 year old and became a merchant, I think..

I live in Tasmania!

]]> By: achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/04/14/sarah-ainslies-hatton-garden-portraits-x/#comment-1506737 Fri, 14 Apr 2023 08:55:07 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195410#comment-1506737 When craftsmanship comes together with the artistic capabilities, it always leads to wonderful results, as shown here photographically well. Hats off to these professionals!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Christine Swan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/04/14/sarah-ainslies-hatton-garden-portraits-x/#comment-1506734 Fri, 14 Apr 2023 07:45:17 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195410#comment-1506734 I often walk through the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham on my way to visit a school nearby and it is a mirror image of Hatton Garden. My Mum had a cousin who made a ring as part of their training in Hatton Garden. It was silver with a flawed, square cut emerald and two tiny diamond chips. They gave it to my Mum as a present but she didn’t wear a lit of jewellery, and it was too large, so gave it to me. I loved that ring and wore it a great deal. Years later, I took an evening class in silversmithing and also made a large nickel silver piece which I was really proud of. It really did look like a huge gold band but was actually worthless in monetary value. Nevertheless, we were burgled and they took the lot. I do feel a slight sense of amusement to think they would have tested their haul only to find the ring I made of cheap, fake gold and the emerald so flawed that it wouldn’t have been very valuable. Sadly, their sentimental value was far greater.

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