Comments on: Roland Collins’ Photographs

By: Scott Bruce

Scott Bruce — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 17:36:26 +0000

Well! That’s me with my parents in the SA open-air meeting. It must date back to the very early 50’s judging by folks appearance. What a serendipitous find of our history.

By: Sandra Warren

Sandra Warren — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 18:47:19 +0000

Msg for Connie. Between 1972 and 1975 Roland kindly rented my husband Roger a bedsit on the top floor of 4 Colville Place. Roger left in 1975 when we got married and bought a small house in Essex while continuing to teach at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. We were thinking and talking about Roland and the weekly dinner parties he held at Colville Place when you were usually always present. We decided to do some research to see if he was still at Colville Place and that perhaps we could visit to say hello. We were pleased to read that you two got married but so sorry to learn of Roland’s passing. Felt a bit sad that we had not tried to see Roland again after we got married, but life with work, children and grandchildren totally absorbed our time. We would like to say hello and hope that you remember us. Sending our very best wishes. Sandra and Roger Warren

By: Connie Collins

Connie Collins — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 19:09:49 +0000

Thank you so much, Gentle Author, for showing Roland’s photographs, and for your part in his Telegraph obituary. And thank you, everyone else, for your lovely comments.

By: Roger Tiller

Roger Tiller — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 08:00:57 +0000

More more please, can’t get enough of these old wonderful times, my Father had a cabinet makers shop at Rosaman Street, Clerkenwell, he was there from just after the 1920s till the mid sixties, it was called W J Burt, does anyone remember it was on a corner opposite Temple press.
Excuse my grammar

By: Cherub

Cherub — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:50:43 +0000

Thank you for the views from the top of the Monument. I worked right by it in Monument Street from 1985 – 91 and was never brave enough to climb up there!

By: Heather Rohrer

Heather Rohrer — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:19:01 +0000

My Mum was born at 10 Salmon Lane, Stepney in 1920. She married my Dad when they were both ‘in the Print’, and I grew up in Edgware listening to Mum’s wonderful stories of life in the east end. Seeing the photograph of the girl in the doorway, I noticed what my Mum called an ‘airie’ (forgive spelling) but to this day I don’t know what an ‘airie’ is. Can someone please explain to a Canadian who has a great love of everything ‘east end’. Thanks in advance.

By: Douglas Jones

Douglas Jones — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:17:56 +0000

Love the image of the Billingsgate porters, a ‘Smiths’ album cover in waiting, but also a fantastic image.

By: John Campbell

John Campbell — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 10:42:26 +0000

…or rather the girl in the doorway shot is very similar to Mayne’s west London pictures of the 50’s.

By: John Campbell

John Campbell — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 10:40:03 +0000

Great pictures! The last one very reminiscent of Roger Maynes photographs on Southam Street.

By: Alison Sye

Alison Sye — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:42:15 +0000

God, those photos of the Billingsgate porters speak volumes.