Comments on: Billy & Charley’s Leaden Men https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/08/16/billy-charleys-leaden-men-xx/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 16 Aug 2025 12:51:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/08/16/billy-charleys-leaden-men-xx/#comment-1776854 Sat, 16 Aug 2025 12:51:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=204092#comment-1776854 As Cole Porter once speculated:

“Is it the real turtle soup? — or merely the mock?”

Either way, I am enthralled with these intriguing figures.
Thanks for shining a light!

]]> By: Bailey Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/08/16/billy-charleys-leaden-men-xx/#comment-1776828 Sat, 16 Aug 2025 12:27:19 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=204092#comment-1776828 The Shaun Greenhalghs of their day. Who knows what they got away with?

]]> By: Andy Husain https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/08/16/billy-charleys-leaden-men-xx/#comment-1776819 Sat, 16 Aug 2025 12:18:13 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=204092#comment-1776819 Superb piece and reminds me of some of the characters from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and some of the faces on atmospheric granite grotesque gargoyles of Medieval churches.
Here’s a caption for St. Peter:
Oy, whose nicked my tube?! Tooth be told, toothpaste makes everything better!

]]> By: Paul Bommer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/08/16/billy-charleys-leaden-men-xx/#comment-1776712 Sat, 16 Aug 2025 08:37:09 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=204092#comment-1776712 Love these so much. They remind me a lot of Speculaas or gingerbread moulds – something that the amazing food historian Ivan Day and I in my own work are both exploring in our work right now. Billy & Charley are heroes to me.

]]>