Comments on: At the Salvation Army in the Eighties

By: West London Overseas Gal

West London Overseas Gal — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 23:12:47 +0000

looking up salvation army 80s, because of wanting to get a feel for the era and people again. find the site i fell in love with years ago.

By: john edwards

john edwards — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:29:52 +0000

Very naff grey cement statue of Booth opposite O’Leary Square Whitechapel/ Mile End Road.
He’s leaning forward as if in a stiff breeze , and, facing east you don’t envy him his position. Arm raised and index finger pointing. Suppose it’s Onward/Upward meant but I think he’s vainly hailing a cab
to go up west for a Fitzrovia bender to relieve the gloom of certainty surrounding those uncertain platoons marching to a drum of broken dreams.
St Joseph’s Hospice is a wonderful haven of love and care – Doll’s Hospital, last stop for the walking wounded – and they care for them – they do. Don’t know how they hack it day & night in and out.
Very moving JC in your unabashed humanist recording of some of those faces and places we are lucky
to have and to have avoided.

By: Rosy Gray

Rosy Gray — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 14:07:55 +0000

How things have changed….. stunning

By: Olga Secerov

Olga Secerov — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 22:06:50 +0000

very moving portraits. These photographs bring back memories when I lived very close to the Salvation Army in Hoxton during the 80’s.

By: Freddie Edmondson

Freddie Edmondson — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 06:59:53 +0000

Another poignant set of strong and yet fragile images- Maybe a little closer to all our hearts in these troubled times………

By: Cherub

Cherub — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:04:52 +0000

I’m not religious but I donate to the Salvation Army every Christmas for their appeal. My late dad was of a generation who witnessed the poverty between the wars and he used to tell me about all the work they did with homeless people, alcoholics and people who had fallen on very hard times. He also used to tell us we shouldn’t complain because we had a roof over our head and food and his motto was “there is always someone worse off than yourself”.

The SA also do incredible work trying to find missing people. It is the one charity I donate to that is non negotiable for me and these moving photos just reinforce that.

By: Jan Davis

Jan Davis — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:10:44 +0000

I remember so well when John did work for The Salvation Army and the sensation the pictures created. For me the most effective were the tube cards when as a captive audience you became transfixed by the images and on getting off the train everyone would rush home to write a cheque out and send it off – they were that powerful – and still are to this day.

By: David Graham Scott

David Graham Scott — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 19:39:34 +0000

I’ll more than likely end my days in such a place

By: Marien de Goffau

Marien de Goffau — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:17:15 +0000

Indeed, our world. Part of our world. Beautiful portraits and beautiful black and white prints. Impressive photographs.

By: David Drakes

David Drakes — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:12:17 +0000

No captions necessary . . . the images speak for themselves . . . the Sally Army may not be the most vocal of charities but, as JC’s lens reminds us so poignantly, they remain stalwarts of the local community . . . there for when any of us from our fractured society might need them.