Comments on: Colin O’Brien’s London Life https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/06/24/colin-obriens-london-life/ 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, 24 Jan 2016 18:49:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tony Racine https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/06/24/colin-obriens-london-life/#comment-1076476 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 18:49:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=115833#comment-1076476 Hi Colin

It looks as if you have done well. Seeing you on the roof of the old school certainly has brought back some memories.

I didn’t know you ended up head boy but I’m not surprised that you did.

I notice there is a photo of you and, I think, it was Colin Wines. It seems only yesterday.

If you wanted to it would be good to chat with you and hear more about how you are doing.

A blast from the past Tony

]]> By: Phil Maxwell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/06/24/colin-obriens-london-life/#comment-384842 Sun, 29 Jun 2014 13:10:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=115833#comment-384842 Colin has such an amaing archive! More please……

]]> By: John Campbell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/06/24/colin-obriens-london-life/#comment-381534 Wed, 25 Jun 2014 20:25:42 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=115833#comment-381534 Wonderful pictures, and as i’ve said before, Colin’s work is comparable to that of the great Roger Mayne who sadly passed away this month.

]]> By: Jude https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/06/24/colin-obriens-london-life/#comment-380643 Tue, 24 Jun 2014 21:53:36 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=115833#comment-380643 Hard to single one pic out above another, but liked the cocky companionship of the last one. Oh yes and the horse 🙂

]]> By: Ros https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/06/24/colin-obriens-london-life/#comment-380642 Tue, 24 Jun 2014 21:46:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=115833#comment-380642 Fantastic selection, several of which I’d never seen before, and I’ll certainly be going to see the exhibition. The one of the couple with the baby in the baby carriage, looking in the window of the white goods shop and taken when Colin was nobbut knee high to a grasshopper, is nigh on perfect.

]]> By: Johnny Homer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/06/24/colin-obriens-london-life/#comment-380559 Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:14:59 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=115833#comment-380559 As a Finsbury boy myself, I was especially taken with the EC1-themed photographs. I look forward very much to seeing the whole exhibition.

]]> By: Pauline Taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/06/24/colin-obriens-london-life/#comment-380519 Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:51:20 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=115833#comment-380519 Love the lady in Chatsworth Road and the two men on the park bench, not forgetting the rag and bone man’s horse of course!

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/06/24/colin-obriens-london-life/#comment-380090 Tue, 24 Jun 2014 08:10:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=115833#comment-380090 Wonderful time capsules from the 1940s up to now!
(PS: When was the “last day of smoking in pubs”…?)

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/06/24/colin-obriens-london-life/#comment-380034 Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:01:29 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=115833#comment-380034 Greta shots of moments frozen in time. Valerie

]]> By: Greg Tingey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/06/24/colin-obriens-london-life/#comment-380026 Tue, 24 Jun 2014 06:53:01 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=115833#comment-380026 As always, what I notice, having lived through this period, is how DIRTY everything is or was – especially before 1970.
And how run-down London was in the 80’s ….

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