The records from Stone Asylum for Joseph Fleming - transcription

[Cogidubnus]

Ah well, there goes a fanciful theory! The street coconut shy must've died out by the 20s and 30s when my mother was there!

Thanks Debs

Dave

[DVV]

Great find

Fleming playing coconut shy in Mile End. You can also hear Mary ("You're fantastic !").

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evUHgdO13Bg&feature=related

[Cogidubnus]

When is a hook not a hook?

Thanks for your input into the hook question. I think we kind of thought between us that Flemming had some sort of 'Longshoreman's hook' in his possessions, a tool of his trade most likely. Thanks for the confirmation of this, I'm taking it that a 'bill hook' was something similar?as I've never heard the term before.

Sorry...I'm afraid a bill hook is very different from a longshoremans hook...google and see!

I suspect Jack would love a weapon like this

Best wishes

Dave

[Debra A]

Sorry...I'm afraid a bill hook is very different from a longshoremans hook...google and see!

I suspect Jack would love a weapon like this

Best wishes

Dave

Oh, I see.
Wouldn't they have put billhook in the inventory though, seeing as plain old 'hook' wouldn't begin to decribe it as it's definitely more like a knife and a Longshoreman's hook looks just like a hook and could be described as such. And dockers definitely used those as thatched roof cutters and the like did?
You're not going to tell us your old grandad was Joe Fleming are you?

[Cogidubnus]

Them 'ooks

I think they used them for breaking up bales and stuff like that...he always said it was a bill'ook that got him...mind you, how sober he was at the time god only knows... gertcha.... slash... lummy... slash... gorblimey, where'd they go?

Cheers
Dave

[Lechmere]

Stone Asylum with Fleming's quarters pictured in the background

[Lechmere]

It looks from the outside like a stately home.

[Lechmere]

It looks like some outsized doors have been scaled down to normal size...

[Lechmere]

City of London crest

[DVV]

Thanks, Lechmere.
It's Fleming's watch below the bell.

[The Good Michael]

I see they removed the tall door from Fleming's room and added a more moderate one.

Mike

[lynn cates]

lovely

Hello Ed. Lovely work. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers.
LC

[DVV]

Too bad we can't see the top of the roof.
The very place where he left his briefs to dry.

[Lechmere]

Fleming would have been able to see over the roof though.
I will take a look at Claybury soon.

[DVV]

Thanks for the pics, Lechmere.
Don't waste too much time with your camera, though.
You've got a Flanagan to track down.