Comments on: Wonderful London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/02/26/wonderful-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 Wed, 05 Jul 2023 08:18:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Peter J Harris https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/02/26/wonderful-london/#comment-1514230 Wed, 05 Jul 2023 08:18:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=108500#comment-1514230 These are great volumes. I believe they were compiled from weekly magazines around the 1920’s. Some interesting photo also show the before and after photos of developments in that period & before. In particular The Haymarket, which has 3 different periods of development. Sadly you can add a 4th to it now of bland modernist.

]]> By: Pamela Daly https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/02/26/wonderful-london/#comment-1439498 Thu, 02 Dec 2021 20:24:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=108500#comment-1439498 Please, can anyone tell me what is holding the cable man up in the air? I see no suspension cables or ladders.

]]> By: Brian Stokoe https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/02/26/wonderful-london/#comment-1249028 Thu, 03 Jan 2019 11:30:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=108500#comment-1249028 Regarding your London Types from Adcock’s Wonderful London: The old woman in an alley, the costerwoman and child, the charlady and the flower seller are by E.O. Hoppe. Hoppe shared models with William Nicholson. He also produced a book, London Types: Taken from Life, made with William Pett Ridge. The telephone cable man is by Walter Benington. I can reference further articles I’ve written on Hoppe, some for the London Journal, if you wish.Regards
Brian Stokoe
(York)

]]> By: Barbara Wager https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/02/26/wonderful-london/#comment-1234728 Mon, 29 Oct 2018 17:32:11 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=108500#comment-1234728 Thank you this was very informative ,
I have been looking at the profession’s of the people in my family tree these photos make them seem more real .

]]> By: Robert McLeish https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/02/26/wonderful-london/#comment-1143375 Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:56:07 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=108500#comment-1143375 Yes, some but not all of these pictures are by my father, Donald McLeish.

I have my copy of the 1935 Silver Jubilee edition of Wonderful London and in the preface, the editor, St John Adcock refers to him as ‘that master of the camera art’. The earlier three volume edition was 1926. The Donald McLeish libraryof over 2000 pictures still exists.

]]> By: J burrows https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/02/26/wonderful-london/#comment-1116764 Fri, 18 Nov 2016 21:28:30 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=108500#comment-1116764 “Scavenger” too well dressed belt and hat tells me he’s a gpo messenger

]]> By: Simon https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/02/26/wonderful-london/#comment-1074833 Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:01:02 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=108500#comment-1074833 Thanks for sharing these. As someone who has recently acquired this set myself, I know how wonderful they really are, what a wealth of mages. The usual publication date given for the set is 1922, but that can’t be right as one photograph shows an aerial view of the 1923 Wembley cup final, and mentions the dismantling of the exhibition site in 1925. It seems the books were originally published in serial form over the period 1926-27, and then, presumably as books that year.

]]> By: Snapperchap https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/02/26/wonderful-london/#comment-977116 Wed, 24 Jun 2015 19:53:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=108500#comment-977116 I’ve just picked up all three volumes of this amazing book from a charity shop for just a fiver 🙂

]]> By: Karenn Juhnke https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/02/26/wonderful-london/#comment-506558 Sun, 14 Sep 2014 00:39:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=108500#comment-506558 I love these wonderful old photos! Just what did a Costermonger do, an entertainer, or what? I don’t think I’ve ever seen that word before.

]]> By: Lottie Alexander https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/02/26/wonderful-london/#comment-253985 Sat, 01 Mar 2014 20:24:13 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=108500#comment-253985 I look through these photos and wish I could find one of my London ancestors somewhere – I have seen many old photos of London but not these.

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