Spitalfields – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Organ-grinding tweets for December

Xmas &c.

If any would not work neither should he eat: Walthamstow workhouse.

The Russian folk song in the Coen brothers’ Raising Arizona

I thought it was a recent version of Stravinsky’s Petrushka theme, but it turns out that Pete Seeger is the intermediary. Plus an East End Jewish version of Khachaturian’s Sabre Dance.

When’s the cheapest time to make strawberry jam?

Average wholesale prices, May-September 2015-2019.

Andreu Solà i Vidal (1863–1902), Las Fresas, source of the most terrible back and stomach problems.

Leave your city burnin like Gamera

Stamina, blaze up your space, plus I got it on camera. Lower Clapton’s wildlife and some audiovisual plans.

Early photography by the Organ-Grinder, from Carnaval in Denekamp, Twente, Overijssel, Netherlands in 1989. I can't remember whether the scene was proverbial or topical. Maybe no one knew.

An organ-grinder at Archway

Pleasures and treasures of the Edwardian street, by a descendant of Scottish banditti.