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  • #31
    The residents would have denied the writing was there even if they'd seen it.

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    • #32
      Originally posted by The Good Michael View Post
      It was used by Puritans and was also used in literature, though uncommon.
      Yes, this is perfectly true, albeit rarely used outside of the seventeenth century, but if you go far enough back you will also find "Juwes" as a correct spelling in Old English literature.

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      • #33
        Originally posted by Scott Nelson View Post
        The residents would have denied the writing was there even if they'd seen it.


        So in reality it could have been there hours or even days (highly unlikely) before the crucial time..

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        • #34
          Originally posted by Geddy2112 View Post


          So in reality it could have been there hours or even days (highly unlikely) before the crucial time..
          Hi Geddy and scott

          why would they deny it if they had seen it before?

          if they had seen it at all, they would have wiped it off, maybe even reported it as an act of vandalism.

          lets use some common sense here folks.

          OK-lets try it this way-if you walked out your door and saw graffiti(in chalk no less-easy to get rid of) written in your doorway-what would you do? right. wipe it off.

          That graffiti never saw the light of day.
          "Is all that we see or seem
          but a dream within a dream?"

          -Edgar Allan Poe


          "...the man and the peaked cap he is said to have worn
          quite tallies with the descriptions I got of him."

          -Frederick G. Abberline

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          • #35
            Hi,
            When I started this thread, I was thinking along the lines of the word " Juwes" could be a family name or a mis-spelling of a name, using Jewiss as an example.
            Some years back, someone posted a modern day photo taken roughly around the same area.
            In chalk it simply said " Juwes I do care 4 you " this has always stuck on my mind because Juwes is obviously someone's name in this instance.

            Regards
            Last edited by spyglass; 03-08-2016, 11:58 AM.

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            • #36
              Originally posted by Abby Normal View Post
              why would they deny it if they had seen it before?
              Because they were scared. Graffiti written probably 6 to 8 hours before it was found by police, maybe seen by a few residents in the evening hours of the 29th, they didn't want to attract any further attention to their building. Better to just say they never noticed it before.

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              • #37
                Originally posted by spyglass View Post
                Hi,
                When I started this thread, I was thinking along the lines of the word " Juwes" could be a family name or a mis-spelling of a name, using Jewiss as an example.
                Some years back, someone posted a modern day photo taken roughly around the same area.
                In chalk it simply said " Juwes I do care 4 you " this has always stuck on my mind because Juwes is obviously someone's name in this instance.

                Regards
                I believe you're referencing this video:



                If you skip to the end, you'll see the graffiti in question.

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                • #38
                  Originally posted by spyglass View Post
                  Hi,
                  When I started this thread, I was thinking along the lines of the word " Juwes" could be a family name or a mis-spelling of a name, using Jewiss as an example.
                  Some years back, someone posted a modern day photo taken roughly around the same area.
                  In chalk it simply said " Juwes I do care 4 you " this has always stuck on my mind because Juwes is obviously someone's name in this instance.

                  Regards
                  Wasn't there a dutch painter named Juwes?
                  The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by Harry D View Post
                    I believe you're referencing this video:



                    If you skip to the end, you'll see the graffiti in question.
                    I don't want to start a new debate about THIS graffiti but I just want to offer up one possibility.

                    Perhaps an anti-semitic person wrote:

                    JUWES
                    I DON'T
                    CARE
                    4 U

                    to which a local resident rubbed out the part of the word "DON'T" to turn it into "DO".

                    There's certainly a space for it (as you can see).

                    Just a thought.
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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by David Orsam View Post
                      I don't want to start a new debate about THIS graffiti but I just want to offer up one possibility.

                      Perhaps an anti-semitic person wrote:

                      JUWES
                      I DON'T
                      CARE
                      4 U

                      to which a local resident rubbed out the part of the word "DON'T" to turn it into "DO".

                      There's certainly a space for it (as you can see).

                      Just a thought.
                      actually I think it reads:

                      Judges I do care for you. ; )

                      sorry couldn't resist.
                      "Is all that we see or seem
                      but a dream within a dream?"

                      -Edgar Allan Poe


                      "...the man and the peaked cap he is said to have worn
                      quite tallies with the descriptions I got of him."

                      -Frederick G. Abberline

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                      • #41
                        Originally posted by Abby Normal View Post
                        actually I think it reads:

                        Judges I do care for you. ; )

                        sorry couldn't resist.
                        Without wishing to be unnecessarily argumentative Abby, I think it is much more like "Jutes I do care for you". But then again my eyesight and ability to read is only equivalent to that of a nineteenth century police detective, i.e. very poor.

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                        • #42
                          I think it says Jude's, and was written by Lenon to encourage McCartney to write a new song.
                          G U T

                          There are two ways to be fooled, one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe that which is true.

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                          • #43
                            Originally posted by David Orsam View Post
                            Yes, this is perfectly true, albeit rarely used outside of the seventeenth century, but if you go far enough back you will also find "Juwes" as a correct spelling in Old English literature.
                            Oh I doubt our author could read Old English, let alone Middle English, but he (she) may have done well with modern Elizabethan English and this is where I was headed with this. Thompson? Probably not, but fuel for that particular fire.

                            Mike
                            huh?

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                            • #44
                              Originally posted by Errata View Post

                              Wasn't there a dutch painter named Juwes?

                              Douwe Juwes de Dowe (1608–1662).

                              He was not of Jewish extraction.

                              The Dutch word meaning Jews is Joden.

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                              • #45
                                Originally posted by PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR 1 View Post


                                Douwe Juwes de Dowe (1608–1662).

                                He was not of Jewish extraction.

                                The Dutch word meaning Jews is Joden.
                                He was Fresian.

                                There is nothing to show he was not of Jewish extraction.

                                There remains a ferry service between Hull and Friesland.
                                My name is Dave. You cannot reach me through Debs email account

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