Comments on: Vagabondiana https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/17/vagabodiana-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 Wed, 24 Jan 2024 09:12:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Hazel Parker https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/17/vagabodiana-i/#comment-1541263 Wed, 24 Jan 2024 09:12:56 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198683#comment-1541263 A wonderful descriptive read.
Is it included in a book to buy?

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/17/vagabodiana-i/#comment-1539696 Wed, 17 Jan 2024 14:41:42 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198683#comment-1539696 How wonderful to simply add “iana” to a word, and suddenly have an in-depth TOPIC. I love it.
And I especially savor the History of Costume aspect of this post. Each panel was awash in details and textures that added to my knowledge. And the showstopping ship atop the head of sailor!? Needing a crutch/stick in each hand, I can imagine the ship rolling from side to side as he
proceeded. What an intrepid group — captured for posterity.
Many thanks, GA. And Sir Schrödinger, no doubt in charge of tech upgrades there.

]]> By: mary woodward https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/17/vagabodiana-i/#comment-1539651 Wed, 17 Jan 2024 10:31:58 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198683#comment-1539651 Wonderful thought-provoking portraits …and a wonderful cat at the top!

]]> By: Eve https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/17/vagabodiana-i/#comment-1539645 Wed, 17 Jan 2024 09:59:27 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198683#comment-1539645 *18th century onward

]]> By: Mathilde Grange https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/17/vagabodiana-i/#comment-1539644 Wed, 17 Jan 2024 09:57:59 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198683#comment-1539644 Scrödinger is very nwell maintained.

]]> By: Eve https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/17/vagabodiana-i/#comment-1539639 Wed, 17 Jan 2024 09:54:33 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198683#comment-1539639 ..although precarious & profitably erratic, street vendors, arts & craftsmen, buskers, beggars & vagabonds alike enjoyed the frisson of life itself working the open streets rather than the grind of the Industrial Revolutions’ dehumanising factory sweatshops. Thanks indeed for a glimpse of 18th century Vagabondiana !

]]> By: Victoria Strauss https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/17/vagabodiana-i/#comment-1539638 Wed, 17 Jan 2024 09:54:08 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198683#comment-1539638 These are wonderful in their detail and atmosphere. I would love to have a rummage through the Staffordshire ware seller’s baskets.

]]> By: Andy Strowman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/17/vagabodiana-i/#comment-1539627 Wed, 17 Jan 2024 07:37:25 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198683#comment-1539627 To Gentle Author and other readers ,
These photographs make me feel sad because they are so real and epitomise the stories I have heard about foreign countries where some poor people try to get money or earn a living anyhow they can . I have in mind the stories of India a country I so long wanted to visit..

I pay special homage to these people in the pictures for not giving up . Some were snubbed ,others made fun of and chased by children, ( as I recall in my East End life and in Bible stories)and I pay respect to the women of years ago in Whitechapel who many men preyed on and still do, the women who earn their living being cajoled or tricked into prostitution, or circumstances forcing them to .

Alas , while working in modern day schools , I came across the few of one school , amplified to the extreme in Rochdale during recent times , whose lives were blighted by lure ,drugs and into prostitution, and the Police did not act but blame them .

These children like the above people deserve a better life, much like the Matchbox workers of Bow did .

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