Lost Sounds #2: London Street Cries, c. 1700 May 28, 2016
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Beach offers the second in his series of lost sounds: the noises that were familiar to our ancestors but that have now for ever vanished and that we struggle to reconstruct. Last time, the Lancashire clog charge, this time the criers of early eighteenth-century London. The idea of London street criers, perhaps particularly from Victorian […]
Lost Sounds #1: Dawn Chorus of Clogs in the Nineteenth Century April 27, 2016
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, Modern
The clog was the preferred footwear of the English industrial north, and particularly the industrial north-west. Shoes were cut from wood and tipped with iron in Lancashire, in the West Riding and the mill towns of Cheshire and Derbyshire. The clog cost relatively little, it was good for defending yourself, it was durable and it […]
