Comments on: In Search Of Other Worlds https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/05/13/in-search-of-other-worlds/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 18 May 2013 20:41:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: jane osullivan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/05/13/in-search-of-other-worlds/#comment-111048 Sat, 18 May 2013 20:41:01 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=88805#comment-111048 just lovely, gentle author,so so very magical and funny.
I am smiling ear to ear,
thanks !

]]> By: Jessica Brown https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/05/13/in-search-of-other-worlds/#comment-110142 Wed, 15 May 2013 08:12:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=88805#comment-110142 Ha I love this! I live right near Bargain World on Hoxton Street and… well it’s neither bargainous nor worldy – but credit needs to be given for being so ambitious! x

]]> By: Marina B https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/05/13/in-search-of-other-worlds/#comment-110106 Wed, 15 May 2013 04:34:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=88805#comment-110106 Ah, such magnificence! I’ve been transported! Thank you!

]]> By: AZ https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/05/13/in-search-of-other-worlds/#comment-109970 Tue, 14 May 2013 17:46:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=88805#comment-109970 yes Gary is right, worlds end…is missing. wonderful! Andrea

]]> By: Alison Sye https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/05/13/in-search-of-other-worlds/#comment-109794 Tue, 14 May 2013 05:55:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=88805#comment-109794 Like the tightly-packed window display of Denim World.

]]> By: dunxd https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/05/13/in-search-of-other-worlds/#comment-109732 Mon, 13 May 2013 22:40:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=88805#comment-109732 Great post. I was long ago fascinated by “Mark Jason’s Shoeworld” when there was a branch in the now gentrified and dull Brunswick Centre, and absolutely delighted to see this shop again when I moved to Bethnal Green Road. I love the way this humble shoe shop is so proudly possessed by Mark Jason, like some early 80s light entertainment show on TV (Russ Abbott’s Madhouse).

Smoker’s World is as anachronistic as those shop signs which still show 071 or even 01 telephone numbers – it takes us back to a time not so long ago, but ever so far away.

Thanks for bringing even more of these to my attention!

]]> By: sprite https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/05/13/in-search-of-other-worlds/#comment-109714 Mon, 13 May 2013 21:50:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=88805#comment-109714 The chap in the blue turban in the front of bargain world is a friend, running Khalsa shop for school uniforms a few yards away. Khalsa = Pureland or something to that effect. I’ll never be able to step into Dreamland linen to get my crochet wool with the same eyes again!

Dreamland linen –
old rolls of egyptian cotton
under new ownership

sprite

]]> By: Slice of London Life https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/05/13/in-search-of-other-worlds/#comment-109713 Mon, 13 May 2013 21:47:05 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=88805#comment-109713 I love these old shop names. Before there was ‘Poundland’ there were hundreds of other little shops using land and world in their names. I especially like ‘Frameland’. Who came up with that?

Another great shop name – not remotely world or land related – is a newsagent off the A12 in Romford called Fags and Mags. Does what is says on the tin!

]]> By: Gary https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/05/13/in-search-of-other-worlds/#comment-109641 Mon, 13 May 2013 18:15:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=88805#comment-109641 You must have run out of steam as you failed to reach “Worlds End”
Gary

]]> By: Phil Maxwell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/05/13/in-search-of-other-worlds/#comment-109619 Mon, 13 May 2013 16:39:34 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=88805#comment-109619 Great article with wonderful photos of shop fronts. Many thanks!

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