Comments on: Moyra Peralta in Spitalfields https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/07/15/moyra-peralta-in-spitalfields/ 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 2024 06:54:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Angels Lista https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/07/15/moyra-peralta-in-spitalfields/#comment-1581413 Fri, 14 Jun 2024 06:54:49 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=93467#comment-1581413 These images are very moving. Thankyou

]]> By: Andy Strowman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/07/15/moyra-peralta-in-spitalfields/#comment-1448698 Sat, 05 Feb 2022 06:41:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=93467#comment-1448698 Gunthorpe st evokes me

My friend John Kling lived there

He was a descendant of President Eisenhower.
I wrote to Mamie Doud Eisenhower and she vonfirmed it as true.
His house was pulled down.

]]> By: Alan Racheter https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/07/15/moyra-peralta-in-spitalfields/#comment-653402 Mon, 24 Nov 2014 00:53:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=93467#comment-653402 Seeing the photos of Providence Row reminded me of the beautiful nativity model that used be behind the railings at Christmas time.

]]> By: John Tempest https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/07/15/moyra-peralta-in-spitalfields/#comment-306722 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 08:40:35 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=93467#comment-306722 Good photographs. But then I wouldn’t have expected anything less.

My kids, too, know that Christmas for those on the streets always comes before their own. But I was heartened that they decided this for themselves.

I do hope your lens hasn’t got rusty with old age.

]]> By: Virginia Beaumont https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/07/15/moyra-peralta-in-spitalfields/#comment-127156 Thu, 18 Jul 2013 11:11:53 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=93467#comment-127156 These photos are very evocative. They capture the human spirit in times of adversity for the dispossesed and homeless. Also the people who opened their hearts in giving their time to make life a little bearable. I lived around Spitalfields/Whitechapel when I was a child and into my teens and saw many of these wonderful characters.

]]> By: Susan Goldman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/07/15/moyra-peralta-in-spitalfields/#comment-126692 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 09:02:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=93467#comment-126692 These pictures are so sad. You can’t help but look beyond the faces and wonder what their stories were. How did they come to live on the streets? What happened to their families? Why was it allowed to happen? Vagrants were a familiar site when I was a pupil at school in Spital Square, indeed I walked past bonfire corner many times. The vagrants, meth’s drinkers and homeless used to scare me. Now I just think it’s very sad.

]]> By: Sonia Murray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/07/15/moyra-peralta-in-spitalfields/#comment-126633 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 00:27:00 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=93467#comment-126633 Perhaps the saddest thing I ever saw was a homeless man, close to midnight on an icy night, huddled on the steps of the Reject China Shop in Oxford Street. Surely there should be somewhere for these rejects of society – or those who have rejected society – to find a bed!

]]> By: Virginia https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/07/15/moyra-peralta-in-spitalfields/#comment-126632 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 00:24:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=93467#comment-126632 Those photos are breathtakingly real and heartbreakingly touching. I was a “yank” living in North London in the years they were taken so they affected me on a nostalgic level as well. God bless Moyra and Roger.

]]> By: Ros https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/07/15/moyra-peralta-in-spitalfields/#comment-126610 Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:46:03 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=93467#comment-126610 You remarked gentle author recently that everyone loves the London they first know and everyone loses it. Well, this is the Spitalfields I knew first, and though it would be wrong to wish it back, but I miss it and sometimes mourn it. These photographs take me right into those scenes and those people.

]]> By: Candice in Georgetown ON Canada https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/07/15/moyra-peralta-in-spitalfields/#comment-126544 Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:59:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=93467#comment-126544 Such a disturbing, yet fascinating blog. So much we can learn from one small section of the world. I’m glad I found you.

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