Comments on: Postcards from Petticoat Lane

By: Pippa

Pippa — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 03:03:15 +0000

Awesome to look at these photos – I worked at Adastral House, Hight Holborne early 1960s and used to go to ‘Gamage’s’ in my lunch break and able to visit a Lane near by. Would this have been Petticoat Lane? I’m too old to recall!!

By: Michael Carr

Michael Carr — Sat, 01 May 2021 06:24:14 +0000

I lived in Code street just Brick lane , from the late 40s to the early 60s , Harry Fishmans
Corner shop was our local shop for papers , magazines , cigarettes and other odds and ends.
I may be wrong but one day someone knocked on his door and shot him in the eye !

By: SandraD

SandraD — Wed, 02 May 2018 10:08:19 +0000

There was a wonderful shoe shop called Levits They stocked the most beautiful shoes.We would go there most Sundays Then over to Liverpool Street to have pictures done in the picture kiosk.You could make a record in a little kiosk for Five bob if you were flush.You sang for a few minutes and it came out as a floppy single,just like your photograph kiosk.It was the best days out with all the stall holders giving their spiel about the goods they sold.It was an experience and very exciting.Something for everyone.aaarh golden memories…..

By: Myrtle Goldstein Sitowitz

Myrtle Goldstein Sitowitz — Sun, 24 Dec 2017 23:20:44 +0000

I used to help my brother out on a Sunday morning in Petticoat Lane. His name was Bernie Goldstein and he had a stall of mostly coats. This was in the glorious Fifties….sadly he passed away a few years ago. I had my own job in the week but Sundays there I was “dahn the Lane”. The bustle, hustle, bargaining was to say the least quite exciting and entertaining. MGS

By: Gill Percy

Gill Percy — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 10:00:24 +0000

Wonderful photos!I am researching my Jewish family tree with the Barnett and Lipmann families. the Barnett family owned a coffee house for 2 generations in Petticoat Lane in the 1800s. Also in the late 1800s into 1914 or later a well known kosher butcher business in Petticoat lane, owned by Emanuel Barnett, called the kosher king of the East End. Looking for any photos or information related to this, people and places. Emanuel Barnett moved out of the lane and had a large home in seven sisters road in the early 1900 s. This was bombed in Ww2. Love to see any photosThe Lipmann family ran the Montefiore pub in this area also.
My grandfather Barnett was born in the petticoat lane area in 1896 and moved to New Zealand in 1910.

By: simon hart

simon hart — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 14:36:59 +0000

fantastic photos to find as I am researching my family who were all jewish and had names such as hart dacosta Barnett myers woolf levy felman etc all lived in and around petticoat lane and Aldgate in the 1800s any one have any memories about any of my family they were closthe dealers pencil makers cigar makers etc

By: Sheila butt

Sheila butt — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 21:25:15 +0000

I was born in the east end and lived in Quaker St all my life worked in Wentworth St in a card shop and on Sundays on my friend Benny Joseph’s stall I loved every minute the shop was opposite Mossy Marks where I went lunchtimes to get the Latkas pickled herring cucumbers and beigles making my mouth water just thinking about it sadly it’s not like that any more my buildings have gone Goldstein’s gone the sweetshop on the corner maybe still there but my very good friend harry fishmans who owned the shop sadly has passed away good old days sadly never to return

By: Mark Dines

Mark Dines — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 01:06:58 +0000

Who remembers Ostwins and the Toffee apple stall?

By: Mark Dines

Mark Dines — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 01:06:10 +0000

Ruth Taylor, I’m pretty sure my Grandmother live in Wentworth Dwellings from the 1930s.
She also had a poultry stall there in Petticoat Lane.

By: Tracey

Tracey — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 09:17:16 +0000

I enjoyed looking at these pictures too. My great-grandfather, Isaac Abraham Nathan, a Jewish confectioner, had a sweet shop in Petticoat Lane in the 1900’s. My late gran, Blanche Solomon used to tell me wonderful stories about the shop and their farm in Wembly where they lived before leaving for South Africa in about 1919. I’m planning to visit (from Australia) in a couple of years and wonder if any of the original shops remain or has it all been totally re-built?