We had a good hard working afternoon polishing our presentations and we greatly enjoyed hearing Debbie and Jack's account of meeting the residents of 88 Narrow Street on Monday. Debbie and Jack had been to meet Rozelle and Dick Raynes and learnt about their lives in Limehouse. Rozelle had also written a book "Limehouse Lil" about here time in Limehouse over the last 40 years or so. Another visit was paid to the Grapes (great chips!) and again, much local information picked up from the staff and regulars. Sorry I could not join you on the day Debbie. Carol

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Here is a picture of one of the clay pipes, it was amazingly clean and I could not believe it had ever been smoked

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Today we moved to looking at the ceramic 'bulk' items, which we were told means they are judged not worth having individual catalogue entries and accession numbers. Most of it seemed to be bits of blue and white plates, with pictures of rural life and flower borders, much the kind of stuff you can still see on sale in markets but the Limehouse plates had no makers names, so wasn't modern, perhaps Victorian. There were a few bowls, mugs and eggcups. I had one more exciting object - a large pottery tankard. in pieces but most of it there. It had a relief picture running round it, a panoramic view of what looked like a Maharajah's procession, with wonderful elaborate carriages drawn by elephants and camels , all different, no repetition. As it was shaped like a European beer tankard I think it must have been a relic of the Raj rather than genuine indian work but again there was no makers name. Sadly I didn't have my camera but will try to get a picture another time.

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It was a good afternoon. We spent some time looking at the Wetpaint site and learning how to add our comments to the site, which was useful. We then got down to work and completed the repacking of our metal and glass objects, sorted them and then reboxed. The labelling of the boxes is a little complicated and I think Adam will need to revisit the box labelling with us before we can be trusted to do it correctly on our own! It was good to see the finished boxes and to feel that we have contributed a little over the past four weeks. Some of us spent a little time at the end of the afternoon discussing the options for our projects. Jean gave us lots of very helpful information and much to think about.

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The iron objects were many and varied - a knife (though dagger might have been a better description), nails, staples and even a cannon ball. Who would have been firing cannon balls in Limehouse? All the ones I handled were a nightmare to pack, the slightest touch or even looking at them caused them to crumble and shed metal dust. However it was eventually done! At the end some of us sorted the record cards we had completed for the catalogue, and were surprised at how much we had done. What's more there were only two duplicates so our fears that we would end up repacking things that had already been packed were largely unfounded and the apparent chaos at times proved to be really brilliant organisation.

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nice picture - aren't you lucky

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