Comments on: Sarah Ainslie At Smithfield Market https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/02/25/sarah-ainslie-at-smithfield-market/ 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, 28 Feb 2014 14:26:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Nick https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/02/25/sarah-ainslie-at-smithfield-market/#comment-253605 Fri, 28 Feb 2014 14:26:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=108430#comment-253605 Fantastic. I worked (As did all the men in my family) in the market from 1982-1986. I loved every second of it. So many bonds were forged there that exist to this day.
I must get down there and take shots myself.
Thanks for the memories

]]> By: Ros https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/02/25/sarah-ainslie-at-smithfield-market/#comment-252692 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 23:11:01 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=108430#comment-252692 Not only very good photos but very good and thoughtful commentary from Sarah. Thank you.

]]> By: John Garton https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/02/25/sarah-ainslie-at-smithfield-market/#comment-252467 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 21:13:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=108430#comment-252467 Seeing those pictures reminds of the many years working for the Daily Mirror, not far from Smithfield. A few of us were regular lunchers at the subterranean Cock Tavern, which served great meals. On one occasion we were entertaining some visitors and we told them that this was where the surgeons from nearby Barts Hospital came to lunch. We announced their arrival…it was a group of Smithfield “bumarees” dressed in their extremely blood-stained smocks! They almost believed us…..

]]> By: Gary Arber https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/02/25/sarah-ainslie-at-smithfield-market/#comment-252434 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:54:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=108430#comment-252434 Fantastic photos Sarah. Thank you for sharing them.
Gary

]]> By: Nicky https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/02/25/sarah-ainslie-at-smithfield-market/#comment-252160 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:38:34 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=108430#comment-252160 It’s great to see these photos – thank you for posting. I’ve been a fan of Sarah’s photography since the mid 80s when I knew her a bit – she did a lot of theatre work then. And when I first came to London I lived next to Smithfields market, and have always loved it. In those days, we’d go to the pub at 7am for breakfast with the meat porters! All best – Nicky

]]> By: Roger Tiller https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/02/25/sarah-ainslie-at-smithfield-market/#comment-252130 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:13:53 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=108430#comment-252130 Wonderful photos really captured the place, can’t wait now to take some pictures myself.
My father used to play in the tunnels underneath the market in the early 1920s, he told me that goods trains bringing in the meat used to run underneath there.

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/02/25/sarah-ainslie-at-smithfield-market/#comment-252126 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:04:52 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=108430#comment-252126 It’s a taboo today to show it, but it is STILL PRESENT — we have to realize that!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Margaret https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/02/25/sarah-ainslie-at-smithfield-market/#comment-252096 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 06:30:50 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=108430#comment-252096 Wonderful photos, though I don’t think I would have coped as positively as Sarah did with the smells and the blood.

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