Comments on: Graphics & Graffiti https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/09/17/graphics-graffiti/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 18 Jun 2023 15:19:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/09/17/graphics-graffiti/#comment-1512600 Sun, 18 Jun 2023 15:19:20 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=70816#comment-1512600 The photo of graffiti on Weaver House was not taken in 1982!
I am still living here and have an original print from the negative.
So what’s the story here please?

]]> By: Lorna Kelly https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/09/17/graphics-graffiti/#comment-67871 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 07:15:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=70816#comment-67871 Wow! This is great!
Thanks for the picture of the Laurel Tree
I live at number 69 Brick lane and have been looking for information and images for the old Laurel Tree public house before it was turned into my home!
The old pub cellar is now my store room!
Thanks for putting this photo up.
Love, love, love Spitalfields Life!

]]> By: Ashley Bovan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/09/17/graphics-graffiti/#comment-65676 Sun, 23 Sep 2012 20:21:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=70816#comment-65676 great shots!
…the text adds an extra dimension

]]> By: Nicola Albon https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/09/17/graphics-graffiti/#comment-65434 Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:36:59 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=70816#comment-65434 A wonderful set of photos – reminding us that places can change very fast and that even in the 80s the now trendy Spitalfields was run down.

I miss the old graffiti – the old ‘xx woz ere’. I used to see that everywhere as a child. It wasn’t very inspired but photos of old graffiti do take me back.

]]> By: David Drakes https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/09/17/graphics-graffiti/#comment-65211 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:03:05 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=70816#comment-65211 From the scrawlings of mindless morons to the graphic depiction of the life of the day . . .
some things never change . . . JC’s lens captures perfectly the signs of the times in the 1960s.

]]> By: Jan Davis https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/09/17/graphics-graffiti/#comment-64881 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:36:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=70816#comment-64881 They are wonderful pictures John. I think “weddings” is my favourite. Once again you tell the tale of the people who were there at that time and in doing so I am left wondering where they all are now and want to know more of their stories – thankyou. And as an afterthought who remembers Lyons corner house now long since gone,but many happy memories of tea with my Mum so thankyou once again as your pictures bring alive so many memories for me.

]]> By: Russ https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/09/17/graphics-graffiti/#comment-64562 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:08:20 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=70816#comment-64562 Fantastic series of images, very evocative, a great pictorial history of the location, you wouldnt recognise many of the areas now, it would be great to do a before and after series of images, i find this method to be a wonderfull way of recording social history, especially to show it to people who are not familliar with an area.

]]> By: David O'Flaherty https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/09/17/graphics-graffiti/#comment-64494 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:28:33 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=70816#comment-64494 Many thanks to you and John Claridge for the photograph of the Laurel Tree on Brick Lane. I’ve come across several examples from 1888 of the coroner using that place as a venue for open inquest before the construction of coroner’s courts. It’s good to see the exterior.

]]> By: Kev O'Neill https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/09/17/graphics-graffiti/#comment-64438 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:02:38 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=70816#comment-64438 What kind of shop? My kind of shop.

]]> By: Marina B https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/09/17/graphics-graffiti/#comment-64423 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:30:20 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=70816#comment-64423 Such grainy, gritty magnificence! Ah!

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