Comments on: The Lantern Slides of Old London

By: Sonia Hamilton

Sonia Hamilton — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:23:04 +0000

I am really enjoying these pictures! they are a wonderful pictoral history.

I was interested in reading Paul Kellys writing about the Euston archway and columns being ressurected. If they were, i will have to google that!! 🙂

By: Diane Blackwell

Diane Blackwell — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 18:45:45 +0000

Thank you very much for everything you write. I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate all the hard work you put into your incredible website, and to say how happy the various articles make me, and now my mother too. Thank you!

By: Jules Frusher

Jules Frusher — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 17:14:19 +0000

Fantastic collection of photos!! I could look at them for hours. My family on my father’s side used to live around the east end during the late 1800s/early 1900s so it’s great to look at some of these places and wonder whether they saw them too! Thank you so much much for sharing them 🙂

By: barbara

barbara — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 18:21:55 +0000

these are absolutely amazing … having grown up in London in the ’50’s and 60’s and part of the 70’s many of these places were still around then

remember the old bombsites where I lived and often walked home in the Summer from school picking the flowers from the bombsite gardens and taking them home to my mother xxx
lovely memories of lovely old London xxx

fantastic, thank you xx

By: Bintylicious

Bintylicious — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:33:43 +0000

I love all these photos you have access to and always look closely at the ones of east end street life, always in the hope of seeing one of my ancestors! Thanks for sharing.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:15:36 +0000

When those slides were in use they were packed in 12 inch long tins with a script in with them so that the presenter could narrate the story, clicking when he wanted the next slide shown.
Perhaps somewhere in the Institute a bundle of yellowing papers may still be around.
I have sets of those old slides that my grandfather used in his day, mainly of countries of the world. When I retire I will sort them out. I will see you at your book launch on Friday.
Gary

By: John

John — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:43:29 +0000

Great photographs! Thanks so much for sharing them.

By: Phil Maxwell

Phil Maxwell — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:13:11 +0000

These are magnificent photographs. So pleased you have left them in their original state!

By: Martin Guilfoyle

Martin Guilfoyle — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 11:57:25 +0000

I find these images just amazing. What an absolutely fantastic archive. I wonder if anyone would have even thought that one day some of these images may even end up in some type of augmented reality on a handheld wireless device. One day, you will be able to walk along the street and use your camera phone, point at a building and with the aid of an app display these old images exactly where you standing.

Never in their wildest imagination could the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society even have thought of the tremendous value they were capturing for generations to come.

Thank you GA for all your work, just as valuable as the original Society.

By: Peter Twist

Peter Twist — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:28:46 +0000

Your remarkable find of the photograph of Ye Olde Dick Whittington in Smithfield’s Cloth Fair inspired me to look for others. I found some here:
http://oldebreweryrecorder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/ye-olde-dick-whittington-public-house.html