Comments on: Alan Dein’s East End Shopfronts of 1988

By: Ushi Parekh-Ward

Ushi Parekh-Ward — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 06:57:29 +0000

Great project ! And wonderful photographs. I came across this as I searched up the name Alfred Myres as I have a coat hanger with an Old Street address. I’m figuring he was a tailor and the hanger once lived in his shop in by gone times. It’s my favourite hanger! Ushi

By: David Murphy

David Murphy — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:04:37 +0000

My maternal Grandfather (Lee) was a foreman at a furniture factory in the area (basic cabinet making, tables, chairs etc) and I was told (proudly) by mum that he always had his Sunday lunchtime drink over there (he walked or caught the bus from TowerBrudge Road Bermondsey) and his suits made of course. Apparently he always had a new black suit made for a funeral then gave it away afterwards. I have an Alfred Myers wooden coat hanger handed down to me. The plastic label shows branches at 276 Old Street EC1, 437 St Johns Street EC1, 66 London Road SE1. The latter could have been the shop taken over by Burtons?
Working class history! Great website. Thanks for photos and information.

By: john corne

john corne — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 16:45:08 +0000

I’ve just found a receipt from my dads archive. NOW I know what he spent the £21 on in (probably ) 1951 – the date just says 1.9.191 – someone was lazy! He got married a few weeks later so I guess it was his wedding suit!

By: Michael Cowary

Michael Cowary — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 13:00:49 +0000

My hanger lists Alfred Myers shops at
276, Old Street, E.C.1
437, St. Johns Street, E.C.1
12, Walworth Road, S.E.1
60-66 Wardour Street, W.1

By: Brenda Mosley

Brenda Mosley — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 08:06:46 +0000

I have a hanger by chance the address on it is 437, St John Street, ANGEL
Phone TERMINUS 5882 at the top of the plastic name tag it says Figure Fitting Tailor. The hanger is wooden. Is this the same Alfred Myers you are talking about?

By: Rob Gullen

Rob Gullen — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 07:01:53 +0000

The Alfred Myers tailor shop in Shoreditch was a blast from the past for me – I used to get my suits made there in the 1970s …. Charles was the main man.
I too still have some wooden hangers with an Alfred Myers label, and a couple of wooden clothes brushes too. I think they had another couple of shops, one may have been near The Angel?

By: Richard Whiting

Richard Whiting — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 21:41:06 +0000

Looking through these shopfronts and reading the comments, I recognised a name and went upstairs to get a coat hanger. It has a white plastic label on it:
ALFRED MYERS
FIGURE FITTING TAILOR
66, London Rd,
S.E.1
PHONE: WAT. 4873.

Any idea what ‘WAT’ was short for?
I can only come up with WATerloo as it’s .nearby.

By: Judith Hillman

Judith Hillman — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 18:50:09 +0000

I too have a beautiful wooden coat hanger with the Alfred Myers label giving three addresses – Old Street, St. John Street both EC1 and London Road SE1. The hanger must have been passed to me at some time by my Mother so perhaps either her father Jack Homewood of Sydenham or her husband, my father, Eddie Brent had suits made by Alfred who from comments from other people is still very fondly remembered but what a sad picture of his shop front.

I am 80 in four days time and will never part with the hanger and in due course I will give it to my daughter.

By: Barny

Barny — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 11:38:24 +0000

Being born in Old Street and schooled in Hoxton, Alfred Myers was de rigueur for quality affordable tailoring, so that I too have their signature coathangers, and remember eagerly looking forward to the second suit fitting.

Do I miss that era and area? certainly, but there were never any “Good Old Days” so that it must have been horrendous for earlier residents in most parts of London.

By: Shirley.collins

Shirley.collins — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 21:12:25 +0000

I have just got a wooden coat hanger out my wardrobe with ALFRED MYERS on it 276,old street.ECl any one interested who collects old stuff can have it