Comments on: Thomas Onwhyn’s Pictures Of London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/12/thomas-onwhyns-pictures-of-london/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 14 Jun 2013 02:32:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: sprite https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/12/thomas-onwhyns-pictures-of-london/#comment-118612 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 02:32:12 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=91258#comment-118612 fashion week –
the dressmakers of Bengladesh
a century later

at night
urchin on a park bench –
a century later
abandonned kids
in airport terminals

sprite

]]> By: Chris F https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/12/thomas-onwhyns-pictures-of-london/#comment-118259 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:40:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=91258#comment-118259 The park at night……. That one got to me. Amazing how a simple illustration can evoke such an emotion in you.

]]> By: Molasses https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/12/thomas-onwhyns-pictures-of-london/#comment-118200 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:14:00 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=91258#comment-118200 >but there aren’t social voices like Dickens…

With able bloggers and community coordination, a new set will build on the great work of pioneers such as Dickens, Elizabeth Fry etc.

It took a generation or two to propel the Victorian pioneers. Humanity will again rediscover community as the state appears to be limiting its social contract with citizens.

]]> By: Frances from A Rebel Hand https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/12/thomas-onwhyns-pictures-of-london/#comment-118139 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:43:29 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=91258#comment-118139 Another excellent post, thank you. He seemed to be very sympathetic towards the seamstresses. They remind me of ‘The Song of the Shirt’.

]]> By: Caroline Bottomley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/12/thomas-onwhyns-pictures-of-london/#comment-118132 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:13:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=91258#comment-118132 And mine! I think there’s a baby in there too.
Interesting, we have all this now (though not sure re homeless women & children sleeping rough) but there aren’t social voices like Dickens and Mr Onwhyn. Is our 21st century UK poverty less clearly defined perhaps?

]]> By: Peter Holford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/12/thomas-onwhyns-pictures-of-london/#comment-118129 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:50:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=91258#comment-118129 Not a great deal has changed apart from the fashions except that the making of clothes has been removed to less visible locations. These are good and deserve to be better known. Dickens probably slated them because of anger rather than as a judgement about their quality.

]]> By: Good Gentlewoman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/12/thomas-onwhyns-pictures-of-london/#comment-118118 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:13:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=91258#comment-118118 What evocative drawings, and as the person before me writes, The Parks – night was particularly poignant.

]]> By: Mike Brown https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/12/thomas-onwhyns-pictures-of-london/#comment-118106 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 06:49:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=91258#comment-118106 A lovely set of contrasting pictures. Very Dickensian. Thank you, Gentle Author, for sharing these

]]> By: Greg Tingey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/12/thomas-onwhyns-pictures-of-london/#comment-118103 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 06:35:38 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=91258#comment-118103 The more things change, the more they remain the same (!)

]]> By: Elizabeth Varadan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/12/thomas-onwhyns-pictures-of-london/#comment-118087 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 05:19:42 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=91258#comment-118087 These were marvelous. Thanks for these pictures. They really say it all.

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