Comments on: My Cries Of London Lecture At St Bartholomew’s https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/09/08/my-cries-of-london-lecture-at-st-bartholomews/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 10 Sep 2023 15:35:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Christine Swan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/09/08/my-cries-of-london-lecture-at-st-bartholomews/#comment-1521158 Sun, 10 Sep 2023 15:35:18 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196837#comment-1521158 Booked! I’m really looking forward to your talk as I cannot usually attend any but, this time , the stars have aligned, and I can. No fat rabbits though please, I’m a vegetarian! This would probably also horrify my ancestors – both of my paternal great grandfathers were street traders. One selling cats’ meat and the other, among numerous other wares, fresh fish.

]]> By: Bailey Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/09/08/my-cries-of-london-lecture-at-st-bartholomews/#comment-1520928 Fri, 08 Sep 2023 16:26:01 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196837#comment-1520928 One day, circumstances will be such that I will be able to come to one of your events.

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/09/08/my-cries-of-london-lecture-at-st-bartholomews/#comment-1520912 Fri, 08 Sep 2023 12:10:26 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196837#comment-1520912 ………..”they claimed their streets as their theatre”. And, oh boy, what an array of theatrical characters! — depicted by remarkable artists who had a flair for descriptive eccentricity. Take a second look at the Pickled Cucumber Man. Hmmmmmm. Thanks to this vivid portrait, I can imagine him casting sideways glances at m’ladies as they pass, perhaps murmuring his approvals and entreaties under his breath, using the streetside platform as a “stage” to engage in even more mischief, and a dizzying lifetime of quasi-legal mishaps. All this (and more) is present in the rakish face and posture of this fellow. For me, he embodies the tenacity and wiliness required of a Man of the Street.

A deep bow to John Thomas Smith, artist. And GA, the genius-in-charge.

]]> By: Gilbert O’Brien https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/09/08/my-cries-of-london-lecture-at-st-bartholomews/#comment-1520887 Fri, 08 Sep 2023 08:33:03 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196837#comment-1520887 Don’t forget representation of street cries in popular culture — theatre and film. Lionel Bart referenced criers in ‘Oliver’ with the haunting ‘Who will Buy’, a song which had its roots in the past but was given a degree of authenticity by Bart’s own experience of growing up in the East End.

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