Comments on: My Pilgrimage Along The Black Path https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/04/my-pilgrimage-along-the-black-path/ 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, 08 Apr 2024 19:26:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: Harry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/04/my-pilgrimage-along-the-black-path/#comment-1564795 Mon, 08 Apr 2024 19:26:17 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199360#comment-1564795 A link I found on the Strange Company blog led me to a wonderful path I never would have heard of otherwise. I especially love the photographs. They’re all so thoughtfully composed. My favorites are Station Rd., Argall Avenue, and the staircase leading from the railway bridge. Thanks for sharing your work!

]]> By: Christine https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/04/my-pilgrimage-along-the-black-path/#comment-1563932 Thu, 04 Apr 2024 22:55:12 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199360#comment-1563932 Beautiful greenery and local life! I agree with Milo a good pub crawl could be had x

]]> By: Saba https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/04/my-pilgrimage-along-the-black-path/#comment-1563911 Thu, 04 Apr 2024 19:52:09 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199360#comment-1563911 Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droughte of March hath perced to the roote …

(had to change that twice before the spelling algorithms gave up)

What a wonderful outing and gift to your readers. We memorized a short passage in grade school.

I love the wooded banks along the canals and rivers around London. These could never exist in New York.

Saba

]]> By: Adele https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/04/my-pilgrimage-along-the-black-path/#comment-1563866 Thu, 04 Apr 2024 12:53:50 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199360#comment-1563866 Fascinating read. Would never have guessed Powerscroft Road, where I had relatives,would have been part of this ancient path!

]]> By: Milo https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/04/my-pilgrimage-along-the-black-path/#comment-1563840 Thu, 04 Apr 2024 10:12:09 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199360#comment-1563840 I suspect a person could combine that walk with a rather interesting pub crawl. In fact I feel compelled to do it and shall in the not too distant future.

]]> By: Herbert Lakey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/04/my-pilgrimage-along-the-black-path/#comment-1563825 Thu, 04 Apr 2024 08:50:01 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199360#comment-1563825 Interesting piece,a small point,we know the marshes
as Walthamstow.

]]> By: Greg T https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/04/my-pilgrimage-along-the-black-path/#comment-1563814 Thu, 04 Apr 2024 07:47:03 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199360#comment-1563814 The second picture – the clock-tower decorated with coats-of-arms is very close to me.
I can remember when it wasn’t there – just an empty space. Because, in 1944 a V-1 pulse-jet missile hit a fish-shop queue on a Friday.
There’s a small plaque facing on to Hoe St

]]> By: Christine Swan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/04/my-pilgrimage-along-the-black-path/#comment-1563813 Thu, 04 Apr 2024 07:37:58 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199360#comment-1563813 This may well be the path that my great grandfather used to walk with his barrow to Billingsgate and the City, accompanied by my father as a small boy. I’ve added it to my list of ancestral walks. I have also been researching my maternal great grandfather who came from rural Essex but settled first in Hackney and then Lea Bridge. After he died, his wife continued to live near the river and my grandmother took up the fashionable sport of rowing.
Thank you dear GA for another very interesting post.

]]> By: Steve https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/04/my-pilgrimage-along-the-black-path/#comment-1563811 Thu, 04 Apr 2024 07:23:30 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199360#comment-1563811 Sadly Manze’s is no more. At least not in Walthamstow market. For over a year now it has been a Japanese restaurant. Compared to the ‘90s the market is a shadow of its former self. Roughly half the stalls have gone completely. Gone are the vegetable stalls but there is still a variety of clothing stalls for those on a tight budget.

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