Rotherhithe Archive #P4862
- Sub-archive: Paper
- Originator: Peregrine
- Cross ref: The Stoke Newington Nursery Vanishing
PoL notes:
We were honoured to discover that Maeve Atkins, defacto leader of the Redriffe Society, has added a piece of PoL’s own ephemera to the Archive. The booklet, related to the Stoke Newington Nursery Vanishing, was pulled together with the help of former City of London tour guide Graham Herod. It was handed out when Portals of London joined London Dreamtime for a guided excursion into the strange story of Alice Mayhew.
Thanks to Maeve for the following images:
Portals of London 
A still greater puzzle: Elizabeth Mayhew’s writing in her diary may not be the easiest, but: why was she writing about the Great Bed of Ware?
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Aspirational home furnishing was something of a curse in that family.
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The diarist also mentions the Whispering Gallery. I have, myself, heard a whisper there, behind me, when no other person alive was present.
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It’s when your voice returns a word that was not the one you whispered that you need to worry.
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Gets more Sebaldian as time passes! I love the wallpaper advertisement.
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The Rings of Saturn certainly swirls somewhere in the cosmos of influences.
We used another great wallpaper ad (Jeffrey & Co of Essex Road) in the original post.
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