https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/10/21/the-bread-cake-biscuit-walk-iii/ 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, 21 Oct 2025 15:02:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/10/21/the-bread-cake-biscuit-walk-iii/#comment-1831021 Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:02:50 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=204817#comment-1831021 Hilarious case of “scraping the barrel” but incredibly interesting. And, as always makes me want to visit some of these places. Thank you Mr G.A.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/10/21/the-bread-cake-biscuit-walk-iii/#comment-1830900 Tue, 21 Oct 2025 12:12:24 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=204817#comment-1830900 A heroic biscuit. Indeed. Of course, I love the sentimentality of this story (and totally loved seeing a photo of Henry) but this also pulled at my sleeve for other reasons. In the 1970s, I had a serious career designing corporate communications/graphics —- but had a playful mania for the so-called
Correspondence Arts. This was a world-wide community of (let’s call them) Mail Artists who created works of art that were exchanged, via post. Most of the examples were happily absurd (oh, maybe like a biscuit?), artful, eccentric, and beyond-unique. Imagine opening one’s mailbox and finding ART? (gasp) On a regular basis! Faux postage was also part of the game, and wonderfully
visual “fake” stamps (complete with perforations and rubber stamped cancellations) were affixed to the works that criss-crossed the nation (and sometimes traveled to your neck of the woods). I was enthralled with the ingenuity of these artists; and my connection to them eventually inspired me to transition from commercial art to mixed-media collage. Home at last.
Thanks for the biscuit. Thanks for the stories, GA!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/10/21/the-bread-cake-biscuit-walk-iii/#comment-1830828 Tue, 21 Oct 2025 10:28:31 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=204817#comment-1830828 Excellent, GA, thank you. Had you walked East instead of West, your tour might have included ‘The Widow’s Son’ in Devons Road.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/10/21/the-bread-cake-biscuit-walk-iii/#comment-1830746 Tue, 21 Oct 2025 08:00:40 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=204817#comment-1830746 Oooh, that Eccles Cake looks delicious …………..

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