Comments on: The East End in the Afternoon https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/09/01/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-2/ 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, 21 Mar 2015 19:39:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: ian Silverton https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/09/01/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-2/#comment-898108 Sat, 21 Mar 2015 19:39:13 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=96435#comment-898108 David Prangle, send me your adress,and will post you a copy,no worries,what part of the old pub do you have as a Flat? Seen any Ghosts up the top stairs? Interested to know, Iansilverton@aol.com

]]> By: David Prangle https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/09/01/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-2/#comment-562588 Mon, 13 Oct 2014 10:22:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=96435#comment-562588 Does anyone have any old pictures of The Westminster Arms at 163 Gosset Street?

It’s been converted into flats and I now live there. I’d love to have an old photo on the wall!

Thanks

David

]]> By: Peter Mearns https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/09/01/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-2/#comment-178870 Sat, 21 Sep 2013 22:47:15 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=96435#comment-178870 I worked at Arbour Square PS from 1969 to !974 and the photos bring back lots of memories. I enjoy the magazine

]]> By: ian silverton https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/09/01/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-2/#comment-170144 Sun, 08 Sep 2013 18:05:57 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=96435#comment-170144 First picture shown is of Norah Street,off Gosset Street Bethnal Green,we lived in the Pub oposite The Westminster Arms,must have played with the two boys in the picture,as was born their in 1944 untill 1963, best, Ian Silverton

]]> By: Slice of London Life https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/09/01/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-2/#comment-166197 Wed, 04 Sep 2013 22:59:11 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=96435#comment-166197 Thank you for sharing these. As Walter said, it is noticeable how free the streets are of rubbish and pigeons. The buildings are blackened with coal dust though.

The women really remind me of my aunts who I used to visit in east London in the 70s and 80s.

]]> By: Ron Pummell. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/09/01/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-2/#comment-164191 Mon, 02 Sep 2013 12:11:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=96435#comment-164191 Very good photographs.
270. Norah St off of Old Bethnal Green Rd.
245. Cyprus St.
686. Hackney Rd, By the Joiners Arms on the left and the “Cats Park” on the right.

]]> By: Good Gentlewoman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/09/01/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-2/#comment-163978 Mon, 02 Sep 2013 07:23:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=96435#comment-163978 Simply wonderful!

]]> By: Maureen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/09/01/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-2/#comment-163633 Sun, 01 Sep 2013 23:47:44 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=96435#comment-163633 I’ve never seen these photos but have vague recollections of visiting the East End in 1965 when what shocked me the most was the extent of bomb damage still existing 20 years after the war ended. I was still a young woman and realizing the reality of what I had only known from history made a deep impression on me. Now, sadly photos of people living amongst bomb damage is commonplace but it was a new concept for me.

Photo 1056 reminds me a lot of the Shambles in York and the little boy with the balaclava could have been my own sons bundled up for Yorkshire winters.

]]> By: John Finn https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/09/01/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-2/#comment-163617 Sun, 01 Sep 2013 23:14:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=96435#comment-163617 Lovely photos. I met Tony from time to time when he did some work for various magazines I designed.
The photo of the Victorian house with the Holly Villas plaque above its door in Clapton Passage at the end where it meets Clapton Square, in Hackney.

]]> By: Chris F https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/09/01/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-2/#comment-163206 Sun, 01 Sep 2013 13:55:10 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=96435#comment-163206 The big house.. third picture from the bottom… Imagine trying to buy a house like that now! Even in that state…. Times really have changed…

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