Comments on: More Long Forgotten London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/04/01/more-long-forgotten-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 Mon, 13 Apr 2020 22:08:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: David Harrison https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/04/01/more-long-forgotten-london/#comment-1335965 Mon, 13 Apr 2020 22:08:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=110660#comment-1335965 Great pictures. Do you know when Ivy Bridge Lane was closed to the public?

]]> By: Ron Tiner https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/04/01/more-long-forgotten-london/#comment-1148168 Tue, 02 May 2017 18:06:21 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=110660#comment-1148168 I wonder if anyone out there could post an old map showing the location of each of these scenes, please? It would be interesting to be able to lay such a map over a map of modern London, to show how changed London is – and, depressingly, how much has been lost…

]]> By: The Greenockian https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/04/01/more-long-forgotten-london/#comment-275921 Sun, 06 Apr 2014 19:21:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=110660#comment-275921 Wonderful – very atmospheric!

]]> By: JennyOH https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/04/01/more-long-forgotten-london/#comment-272734 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 19:51:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=110660#comment-272734 Much as I love seeing these lost views, I’d be a bit apprehensive of going inside some of the buildings shown – particularly the one in Butcher’s Row that’s propped up with beams on either side!

Also, @Greg Tingey, I’d agree with the date given in the post for the Marylebone Gardens image given the frock coats, tricorns, and wig styles of the men for whom I can make out such details. The women also appear to be wearing late-18th century styles; can’t quite make out if the woman in the lower left with her back to us is wearing a sack-back gown or not.

]]> By: Gary Arber https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/04/01/more-long-forgotten-london/#comment-270851 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 22:06:21 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=110660#comment-270851 No petrol fumes, just the pleasent smell of horses.
Gary

]]> By: Garfer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/04/01/more-long-forgotten-london/#comment-270437 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 09:42:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=110660#comment-270437 I wish the Whistling Oyster was still serving beer and victuals. Fings just ain’t wot they used to be.

]]> By: Peter Holford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/04/01/more-long-forgotten-london/#comment-270432 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 09:27:13 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=110660#comment-270432 A fabulous record from before photography. Interesting to see a shop sign in French – ‘Aux mille couleurs’. It shows that fashionable London has always been cosmopolitan – so much so that my 4 x great-grandfather from Wakefield ran a hairdressing business in Piccadilly!

]]> By: Colin Hose https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/04/01/more-long-forgotten-london/#comment-270416 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 08:39:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=110660#comment-270416 Brilliant, keep them coming

]]> By: Sally https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/04/01/more-long-forgotten-london/#comment-270387 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 07:15:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=110660#comment-270387 Love these especially the Tothill Street Westminster image. Thanks for posting these.

]]> By: Greg Tingey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/04/01/more-long-forgotten-london/#comment-270379 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 06:54:52 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=110660#comment-270379 Two queries
1: Where, actually, was “Jacob’s Island?
2: Is there a small typo on the one for Marylebone Gardens? The usual clue – ladies’ fashions – suggests it’s more like 1840-50 …

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