Comments on: A Room to Let in Old Aldgate https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/11/05/a-room-to-let-in-old-aldgate/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 14 Dec 2022 13:04:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jennifer Newbold https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/11/05/a-room-to-let-in-old-aldgate/#comment-1494667 Wed, 14 Dec 2022 13:04:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=15621#comment-1494667 It’s like entering another world. These photographs were taken only some fifty years before I was born, which in the greater scheme of things is no time at all yet this London is almost unrecognisable. What strikes me every time I look at these old Bishopsgate Institute photos is the almost complete lack of people and vehicles. London is never so empty today (except perhaps on Throgmorton Street at two o’clock in the morning when you’re looking for a cab). I found a pair of men sitting on a wall in Cloth Fair, and a person in a window and a horse in Queens Head Yard…

I was intrigued by the photo at St Mary Overy docks. There are a number of ‘overies’ in Norfolk, but as a place-name I cannot figure out what it refers to. Even the Institute of Name-Studies at Nottingham University seems to be stumped by this one.

]]> By: ahaan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/11/05/a-room-to-let-in-old-aldgate/#comment-1311022 Sat, 07 Sep 2019 09:13:52 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=15621#comment-1311022 Great blog thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Anjlina https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/11/05/a-room-to-let-in-old-aldgate/#comment-1304576 Fri, 16 Aug 2019 10:25:40 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=15621#comment-1304576 Incredible, I love these photos. They are really ghostly or amazing

]]> By: Adrienne Roche https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/11/05/a-room-to-let-in-old-aldgate/#comment-1248699 Tue, 01 Jan 2019 18:29:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=15621#comment-1248699 Wonderful photographs.

]]> By: Janet Wheatley (formerly Evans.) https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/11/05/a-room-to-let-in-old-aldgate/#comment-1191427 Sat, 13 Jan 2018 12:29:20 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=15621#comment-1191427 Do you have any pictures of Black Lion Yard, Whitechapel? I used to live there.

]]> By: Matt Oldham https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/11/05/a-room-to-let-in-old-aldgate/#comment-1124956 Sun, 25 Dec 2016 07:08:36 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=15621#comment-1124956 It’s like reading the first sentence of Bleak House, for the first time. A sock in the gut.

]]> By: EVP https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/11/05/a-room-to-let-in-old-aldgate/#comment-1108493 Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:28:35 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=15621#comment-1108493 Superb photos.

]]> By: Surender https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/11/05/a-room-to-let-in-old-aldgate/#comment-1084003 Thu, 31 Mar 2016 10:24:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=15621#comment-1084003 Beautiful images…I love these photos

]]> By: dave whittaker https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/11/05/a-room-to-let-in-old-aldgate/#comment-1064897 Tue, 29 Dec 2015 20:10:57 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=15621#comment-1064897 Wonderful just Wonderful..

]]> By: Richard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/11/05/a-room-to-let-in-old-aldgate/#comment-1049802 Wed, 04 Nov 2015 14:31:20 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=15621#comment-1049802 Great pictures which help to connect us with the past. The St Mary Overy Dock, probably my favourite. Re: Bermondsey Street photo, I took the exact same photo for my blog in 2014, in which I locate the exact spot the original was taken see here http://bit.ly/1sJUXpd

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