Comments on: My Promise https://spitalfieldslife.com 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, 18 Nov 2023 19:20:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.13 By: Lydia Deane https://spitalfieldslife.com/my-promise/#comment-1528269 Sat, 18 Nov 2023 19:20:38 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/about/#comment-1528269 I can only guess at how Jonathan Pryce has come to be reading your Christmas story at its book launch but I LOVE it! Pryce is such a class actor and perfect for such a reading! Well done, all around!
Lydia Deane
Eugene, Oregon USA

]]> By: Robyn https://spitalfieldslife.com/my-promise/#comment-1519796 Sun, 27 Aug 2023 08:42:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/about/#comment-1519796 Thank you for today’s fascinating post about William Morris. I had some knowledge of William Morris, particularly relating to textiles, but I knew very little of the information you wrote about today. You may know there is a collection of his work in Adelaide, South Australia – another interesting story.
Kind regards
Robyn, Sydney

]]> By: Sarah Ristine https://spitalfieldslife.com/my-promise/#comment-1519730 Sat, 26 Aug 2023 12:32:57 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/about/#comment-1519730 I stumbled on this website, and have just starting browsing, while looking up Richard Whittington and his cat and the Bow Bells while explaining to my husband what makes a true cockney. That in itself was a distraction from something else I was looking up. Anyway, my husband and I lived in London for a short while many years ago. We lived near Smithfield; I worked on Houndsditch. I can’t wait to go back to London, and more of England, to see good examples of adaptive reuse and to walk all over. Having grown up in Greenwich Village, London fit me much more than anywhere. We live in Buffalo now where I really appreciate good adaptive reuse – keeping the delights of the old industrial buildings but repurposed. I want to go to the northern towns as well for this.
My hometown is turning into on big glass box.

]]> By: Sally https://spitalfieldslife.com/my-promise/#comment-1517595 Sun, 06 Aug 2023 11:13:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/about/#comment-1517595 I’m in love with this website. I especially love the cute Cockney accent. May you never loose it. This may not be that interesting to anyone else, but my great,..great grandfather was just 11 years old when he was caught pick pocketing in the East End of London. He was sent to Australia as a boy convict. I like to think, I wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for him.

]]> By: yvonne cullen https://spitalfieldslife.com/my-promise/#comment-1511585 Fri, 09 Jun 2023 06:32:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/about/#comment-1511585 Found you via your Twelfth night post which i adored, as a student of music hall and variety life. So glad you are still writing!! Signing up now! From a day-case hospital bed, much thanks!

]]> By: Lorraine Apps https://spitalfieldslife.com/my-promise/#comment-1502903 Tue, 28 Feb 2023 12:05:01 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/about/#comment-1502903 I’m a South London girl – who adores London and it’s history which is why today I cannot believe that I’ve only discovered your writing. I’ll be busy for the next year just catching up, I’m excited to begin my journey of discovery. Thank you

]]> By: Jeremy https://spitalfieldslife.com/my-promise/#comment-1497643 Sat, 07 Jan 2023 06:41:44 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/about/#comment-1497643 Your daily bulletin is always a joy to receive, and ever so informative.

My grandfather was the boxer Young Johnny Brown, whose brother was Johnny Brown.

If you’ve any history to share on the lives of boxers from the East End, it would be much appreciated.

]]> By: Rondeau Baker https://spitalfieldslife.com/my-promise/#comment-1493458 Mon, 05 Dec 2022 03:19:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/about/#comment-1493458 Hello Gentle Author

I enjoy reading Spitalfields Life each day.
My ancestor was Sexton at Christ Church Spitalfields in the 1700’s.
I met you there at the Rondeau Family reunion in 2011 when
our plaque was presented to honour Jean Rondeau.

Thank you
Rondeau Baker
Whitby, Ontario, Canada

]]> By: Hazel Carr Leroy https://spitalfieldslife.com/my-promise/#comment-1490309 Sat, 05 Nov 2022 21:55:17 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/about/#comment-1490309 I just stumbled across your wonderful site while looking for visual content to enhance upcoming lectures in my Theatre History I class. I am an adjunct professor at a small conservatory of performing arts in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I must run to catch a show in which one of my students is appearing tonight, but I promise to return and to spend many a happy hour wandering through your archives. For the moment, let me thank you for digitizing all of Laroon’s engravings. My costume design students will be particularly glad.

Gratefully,

Hazel Carr Leroy

]]> By: Dorothy https://spitalfieldslife.com/my-promise/#comment-1477638 Fri, 19 Aug 2022 14:14:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/about/#comment-1477638 Thank you for your promise

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