Comments on: Ernest George’s London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/23/ernest-georges-london/ 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, 29 Apr 2024 12:26:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: cathy clark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/23/ernest-georges-london/#comment-1569447 Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:26:22 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199486#comment-1569447 The detail in these etchings are amazing, a very talented artist.
WOW Factor.

]]> By: Richard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/23/ernest-georges-london/#comment-1569273 Sun, 28 Apr 2024 10:00:04 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199486#comment-1569273 Would love to have walked in Wych Street.

]]> By: Nick Cowley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/23/ernest-georges-london/#comment-1568628 Thu, 25 Apr 2024 05:23:46 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199486#comment-1568628 Some of the names in the etchings take us down fascinating trails. Sir Paul Pindar, after whom a stout house in Bishopsgate was named, was Ambassador to the Ottoman empire for King James

]]> By: Nancy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/23/ernest-georges-london/#comment-1568620 Thu, 25 Apr 2024 04:22:03 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199486#comment-1568620 These are so evocative. He was the you of his time.

]]> By: David Parsons https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/23/ernest-georges-london/#comment-1568275 Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:48:18 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199486#comment-1568275 It is worth noting that, as good and interesting as George’s etchings and watercolours are. they were for him something of a hobby alongside his profession as a leading architect of the period.

In addition to being very successful in its own right, responsible for such fine work as 1–8 Collingham Gardens, South Kensington, the practice George co-founded and led, Ermest George & Peto, is famous in English architectural history as having given a start to many of the leading architects of the following generation including Edwin Lutyens.

]]> By: Angela https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/23/ernest-georges-london/#comment-1568271 Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:11:48 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199486#comment-1568271 These are wonderful, thankyou. I am intrigued by the notice in Crown Court, Pall Mall advertising ‘Trists (trysts), Divorce, Elopements.

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/23/ernest-georges-london/#comment-1568237 Tue, 23 Apr 2024 13:35:47 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199486#comment-1568237 This artist set out to immortalize his surroundings — Wow! — and now he has taken us along with him. My first look-thru was for the purpose of admiring his admirable technique, but then I succumbed to the locations. I was shoulder-to-shoulder, shuffling down Crown Court with other pedestrians. Oh — look out there — stepping out of the way, for that huge lumbering wagon in Warwick Lane. I hear the lapping of water against stone steps and row boats, as I pause in my travels, hearing muffled voices way across THERE in Limehouse on the other shore. The gates of the City are mine, as I duck through, pausing in the shadows; watching others hurry past. My eyes scan each sign board and placard, intrigued by “Easy Shaving”, and then squint at the worn headstones in the tumbled graveyard. And I look up/up/up at the grand Tower. Place of legends, surprisingly built of both stone AND wood, with a guard at the ready.

What glorious travels, thanks to Ernest George and our Gentle Author.

]]> By: Bernie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/23/ernest-georges-london/#comment-1568208 Tue, 23 Apr 2024 08:12:53 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199486#comment-1568208 The Staple Inn image reminds me that those old buildings (or a later replacement) persisted during my time in London (up to 1959). Are they there yet? Is there a subject here for our Gentle Author to look into and, perhaps, illustrate?

]]> By: Christine Swan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/23/ernest-georges-london/#comment-1568206 Tue, 23 Apr 2024 07:57:01 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199486#comment-1568206 Thank you dear GA for yesterday giving me people, and today places, to fire my vivid imagination of the streets that my forebears walked and who they may have encountered.

]]> By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/23/ernest-georges-london/#comment-1568181 Tue, 23 Apr 2024 06:53:55 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199486#comment-1568181 There is a huge amount of detail in these etchings, a very talented artist.

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