Comments on: The Lives Of the Spitalfields Nippers https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/08/12/the-lives-of-the-spitalfields-nippers-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 Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:37:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tom French https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/08/12/the-lives-of-the-spitalfields-nippers-i/#comment-1774110 Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:37:37 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=204073#comment-1774110 It seems incredible that these photos of the Nippers were taken over 120 years ago. Their superb quality far surpasses that of most of the photographic output produced at the time.
I have a personal connection with the life of Walter Seabrook who lived at 24 & half Great Pearl Street, because my great-grandfather John William French and his family had also lived at this address a couple of decades earlier, as shown in the 1871 census. They had moved there after being evicted from Lamb Alley, Bishopsgate, located in the area which was totally demolished for the construction of Liverpool Street Station

]]> By: Chris Savory https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/08/12/the-lives-of-the-spitalfields-nippers-i/#comment-1773936 Tue, 12 Aug 2025 10:09:40 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=204073#comment-1773936 Hi Gentle Author

Hope all is well.

I love all your work.

Can Spitalfields Nippers be re-printed please.

]]> By: ANDY STROWMAN https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/08/12/the-lives-of-the-spitalfields-nippers-i/#comment-1773865 Tue, 12 Aug 2025 08:02:47 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=204073#comment-1773865 Much has been said and the pictures say it all .

I feel special because I grew up knowing a taste of what they felt in Whitechapel.

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