Comments on: Adverts From The Stepney Borough Guide https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/10/adverts-from-the-stepney-borough-guide/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 30 Dec 2018 17:36:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Derek Bailey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/10/adverts-from-the-stepney-borough-guide/#comment-1248382 Sun, 30 Dec 2018 17:36:57 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=113011#comment-1248382 As a young boy I lived for several years at 41 Umberston Street – an address that has vanished because of slum clearance (?). These ads. certainly recall long-ago. Kudos for reviving them.

]]> By: Elizabeth cornwell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/10/adverts-from-the-stepney-borough-guide/#comment-327488 Sat, 10 May 2014 18:06:28 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=113011#comment-327488 Oh,these are wonderful,& love the names that go with them!

]]> By: frank hadley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/10/adverts-from-the-stepney-borough-guide/#comment-327131 Sat, 10 May 2014 15:09:34 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=113011#comment-327131 so nice to see the old ads. and posters , also noted they all had the old style telephone numbers. sadly many of these buisness’s were bombed during w.w. 2 i can still remember a few of these as i lived in the spitalfields area. which i might add was not as bad a place to grow up as some people seem to think. many thanks for posting these long forgotten gems.

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/10/adverts-from-the-stepney-borough-guide/#comment-326578 Sat, 10 May 2014 09:13:40 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=113011#comment-326578 Oversaturated by multicoloured internet advertisements these vintage typesettings are real eye candy! (Not only to me as a Graphic Designer…)

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: ROBERT GREEN https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/10/adverts-from-the-stepney-borough-guide/#comment-326533 Sat, 10 May 2014 08:47:11 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=113011#comment-326533 These are fantastic, so evocative of their time, I remember quiet a few of these businesses, a good few of whom were still trading until relatively recent year’s, WONDERFUL.

]]> By: Ros https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/10/adverts-from-the-stepney-borough-guide/#comment-326488 Sat, 10 May 2014 08:25:05 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=113011#comment-326488 What a marvellous selection! Thoroughly enjoyed these. Hopping(especially on peg legs) and galloping wouldn’t be the associations used to sell alcoholic beverages nowadays I think. And why would the sewing machine top converter be advertising that it was a profitable side-line for furnishers? Guess the feather purifying works would be handily situated near the chicken slaughterers…what a hive of industry it was all round.

]]> By: Greg Tingey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/10/adverts-from-the-stepney-borough-guide/#comment-326402 Sat, 10 May 2014 07:20:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=113011#comment-326402 “Skulgarde” were very advanced for their time – I think the messengers in Cocteau’s “Orphee” (Riding Sunbeams IIRC) wore them.
Ah, Spiegehalter …
Their premises is famous – see “Nairn’s London” – but the entire frontage, including the specatucular “Spiegehalter gap” is now threatened with demolition.

]]> By: joan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/10/adverts-from-the-stepney-borough-guide/#comment-326382 Sat, 10 May 2014 06:53:49 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=113011#comment-326382 Had my ears pierced at Spiegelhalters because my dad used to maintain their burglar alarm. Many visits to Dr Leahy of Commercial Road (Irish and Catholic and so highly regarded – and feared – doctor to the nuns of the parish) followed as my ears turned septic! His phrase ‘If God had meant you to have extra holes in your ears’ can still be heard in my head and is one reason why my soon to be 13 year old daughter, despite much pleading, still has unblemished ears.

]]> By: Valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/10/adverts-from-the-stepney-borough-guide/#comment-326289 Sat, 10 May 2014 05:23:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=113011#comment-326289 Great selection here, I especially like the one advertising upwards of 70 cows on the premises of the model Dairies in Black Lion Yard! Valerie

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