One of the blogs I read is often a fascinating delve into the early records of London's East End.
https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/05/22/in-a-well-in-spitalfields-iii/
What amazes me is that some of these old artifacts didn't simply rot away completely! Oh, and just before I sat down to write this, we heard the garbage truck, emptying our street's offerings: glass, metal and plastic, for the most part! Not the same as chucking a cracked wooden platter down a well...
Lazy old baggage that I am, I still have not taken the bigger camera to capture some of the autumn glory. But today's weather promises to stay sunny, so...watch this space!
New neighbours, just across the lane, apparently have a BIG dog, judging by the deep bark we hear whenever someone walks or cycles down the lane.
I saw that Spitalfields post!
ReplyDeleteHopefully the dog's bark is worse than its bite. Barney has a big boomy meaningless bark - he just likes talking - and he is a New Zealand breed.
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Yes, he's likely a huntaway boy.
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That Spitalfields story was fascinating! My sister used to live on Folgate Street, I must send the link to her.
ReplyDeleteWhat a pretty fuchsia, too - only a few of ours have started to flower, but they have a long season ahead of them... Jx
I used to work in Folgate street!
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Small world, innit? Jx
DeleteIt is! I was there at the beginning of the gentrification - 1983 - it was all very shabby back then. Opposite my office was a furriers. Apparently they often had fires.
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"M. Bardiger Limited, fur merchants of 9 Folgate Street", perhaps? Jx
DeleteProbably! Fur bodysuits, though?!! There were all sorts going on in that street!!
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Possibly only a dachshund with a cough ... Thank you for that link - 13th century boots - who would have thought !
ReplyDeleteYour report of the garbage truck immediately had me thinking of dear LẌ and this comment.
ReplyDeleteErm.....oh...whatever happened to the bottled stuff?!!
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If I had the time right now I'd get lost in a re-read, but the bath is beckoning. Perhaps a catch-up is in order during the impending rainy season! (I also have another Tiny Treehouse to make and a Lego Concorde...)
DeleteAre you sure the deep bark isn't a recording?
ReplyDeleteI heard a lecture, a few years ago, about the silk weavers of Spitalfield, from the days when court dress had to comprise elaborately decorated silk costumes. They were Huguenots, I think. There is still one attic where the weaving was done, which was rescued and preserved (I should look all this up, to check I'm not talking nonsense) but, by the end of the 18th century, times had changed and the area had become very poor. I don't know that blog, must look it up - but I want to read what more friends have written first.
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