Comments on: More East End Shopfronts of 1988

By: Kath Posner

Kath Posner — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 13:13:46 +0000

Hi Maria,
Apologies for delayed response, but I’ve only just spotted your posting. Yes that is the same man: he died Christmas Day 2012 and I can’t help but think it was his last two-fingered salute to the System!

By: Maria

Maria — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:44:59 +0000

Would that be the same Arnold Posner I worked with at the Morning Star, Kath? I have fond memories of him.

By: Kath Posner

Kath Posner — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 15:59:03 +0000

I discovered this page shortly before by dad (Arnold Posner)’s funeral last year, and still can’t stop coming back to it. I can barely remember his family’s shop, so thanks for keeping the memory alive.

By: Neil Hosland-Round

Neil Hosland-Round — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 08:43:32 +0000

The sheer beauty of these photos, recording a different world is wonderful. Thank you for every day of Spitalfields life, living near by it brings the most modest buildings to life and the people’s stories surrounding them.

By: Veronica Howe

Veronica Howe — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:14:17 +0000

I LOVE these beautiful pictures. So evocative of my disappearing London childhood. And don’t they tell a story of migration! I’m always sad when “proper” shopfronts are replaced by ubiquitous plate glass and turned into estate agencies or, like one near me in West London, converted to residential “units”

By: Joan

Joan — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:00:47 +0000

And staying on the shop front theme lovely to hear the news about the Ben Eine’s painting going to the White House. He sounded like a lovely man on the PM programme just now.

Best wishes,

Joan

By: Wellwynder

Wellwynder — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:05:37 +0000

I’ve only recently discovered your blog and have been exploring it with great pleasure. These shopfront photos are especially fascinating. London needs its Atgets, that’s for sure. And who’d have thought of finding a real-life Stepto(w)e and Son? Many thanks for it all.

By: Joan

Joan — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:26:45 +0000

These really are terrific. I wonder what we should be documenting now which is likely to disappear.

Loved the Alan Dein series ‘Just Off the Plane’ on radio 4 last week. I was particularly taken with the young American men whose whole idea of London was based on what they’d seen in the movies – ‘To Sir with Love’ in particular, and who were interested in where Idris Elba comes from (East Ham and Canning Town – hardly on the normal tourist trail).

Best wishes,

Joan