Comments on: A Walk in Whitechapel

By: Mary Lou

Mary Lou — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:13:02 +0000

I enjoy your articles very much. I have always loved London, it is in fact my favorite city. Recently, about 6 months ago I was in London after not having been for quite a few years. It absolutely saddened me when I saw the changes in Whitechapel. Of course like everything else, time moves on and progression is required. However the changes that I saw brought tears to my eyes. I so long for the Whitechapel of my memories, the Whitechapel of old.

By: sprite

sprite — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:46:56 +0000

changing cityscape –
Sartres and Simone once
deambulated there too

sprite

By: Mary Gilmartin

Mary Gilmartin — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 02:41:08 +0000

Enjoyed reading your articles. Thanks for writing them and hope to see your name here again.

By: joan

joan — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:45:47 +0000

I went to school on Christian Street. Bishop Challoner girl’s school (now a huge expanse on Commercial Road) temporarily based its lower school there while the new building in Lukin Street was made ready (this would have been in the mid 1970s). It was an old Victorian school building and I seem to remember being told that it had previously been a Jewish school. I haven’t been down Christian Street for years but looking at street view it looks like it has been replaced by a new, no doubt much needed, housing development.

Thank you for the heads up on the halal sweet shops. It is always an issue when my children are taking sweets to school for birthdays etc. Yummy Yummy could provide a nice easy solution.

Thanks and best wishes,

Joan

By: Rosie Dastgir

Rosie Dastgir — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:02:57 +0000

Thanks so much for your appreciative comments – I’ve much enjoyed writing these pieces, and working with delightful and talented photographers.

By: Siggi

Siggi — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:29:14 +0000

Thank you for a very interesting week – hope to hear more from you – and good luck with your book !!

By: Libby Hall

Libby Hall — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:39:59 +0000

It is good to read reassuring descriptions of real shops and know that the corporations haven’t captured all of Whitechapel yet. And lovely to see Colin O’Brien’s photographs of those shops taken at dusk. Many of Tony’s photographs of shops in Spitalfields were taken at that time of day. It’s a lovely moment in city time that Tony and I always specially enjoyed: when the artificial lights look so warm and yellow against the fading purple/blue light of the sky.

A couple of days ago I read bits of ‘A Small Fortune’ on the internet and immediately ordered a copy. I know I’m going to enjoy it. I hope it turns up quickly. This is definitely the right sort of weather to be snug inside with a good book!

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:28:26 +0000

Thank you Rosie for an interesting week.
Gary

By: Lizzie T

Lizzie T — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:03:59 +0000

Have really enjoyed reading your contributions.

By: andrew plume

andrew plume — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:55:19 +0000

………….and it’s been great Rosie, thanks indeed

see you on here again, hopefully……………………

andrew