https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/09/22/in-the-footsteps-of-c-a-mathew/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 12 Jan 2018 07:27:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/09/22/in-the-footsteps-of-c-a-mathew/#comment-1191285 Fri, 12 Jan 2018 07:27:15 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=12913#comment-1191285 In the old photos the streets seemed to belong to the people, there seems no such connection now.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/09/22/in-the-footsteps-of-c-a-mathew/#comment-254456 Mon, 03 Mar 2014 16:07:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=12913#comment-254456 Wonderful to see this picture my Ancestors had a Copper Plate printing business in Steward Street in the 1800’s.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/09/22/in-the-footsteps-of-c-a-mathew/#comment-176994 Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:52:02 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=12913#comment-176994 Great photographs – thank you so much. Doesn’t London look and feel so much more sanitized and lacking vitality than in the old days?

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/09/22/in-the-footsteps-of-c-a-mathew/#comment-4804 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:40:29 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=12913#comment-4804 brilliant,
and yes, where are those kids?

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/09/22/in-the-footsteps-of-c-a-mathew/#comment-4747 Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:11:46 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=12913#comment-4747 Fantastic, thanks for posting these photographs.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/09/22/in-the-footsteps-of-c-a-mathew/#comment-1208 Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:45:51 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=12913#comment-1208 Compelling to look at. Fantastic to see the same spots, almost as good as being there.
Thankyou so much.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/09/22/in-the-footsteps-of-c-a-mathew/#comment-1114 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:18:01 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=12913#comment-1114 What a superb website this is.
Connecting the past with the present is one of the great blessings of photography, as your readers have noted. The past is all around us but we are usually too much in the present to be aware of it. An acquaintance of mine – a level-headed gent not given to “seeing things” – once saw some ghostly Parliamentary soldiers from the Civil War (1642-46) riding along on horseback at night in an ordinary London suburb.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/09/22/in-the-footsteps-of-c-a-mathew/#comment-1109 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:48:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=12913#comment-1109 To be enabled to see the man crossing the street where in former times the group of children had stood to be photographed, lends a strange quality to your photos. It is as though he is walking through their ghosts, and who knows, maybe in a hundred years, someone will reflect on your photos and compare them to the Spittlefields of 2110…. Keep snapping…

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/09/22/in-the-footsteps-of-c-a-mathew/#comment-1098 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:25:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=12913#comment-1098 Adding fantastic interest and value to yesterday’s post, which was already bursting with both! Just wonderful…

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/09/22/in-the-footsteps-of-c-a-mathew/#comment-1097 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:09:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=12913#comment-1097 Well done, a fantastic days work
The contrast between children and the men on their mobiles is a sign of the times
Gary

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