Comments on: Charles Goss’ Vanishing London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/31/charles-goss-vanishing-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 Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:38:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/31/charles-goss-vanishing-london/#comment-724667 Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:38:48 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=126292#comment-724667 Thanks for all the wonderful posts this year— I’m looking forward to the forthcoming ones of 2015!

Love & Peace & Happy New Year
ACHIM

]]> By: Sarahc https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/31/charles-goss-vanishing-london/#comment-724402 Wed, 31 Dec 2014 22:21:28 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=126292#comment-724402 I’m thinking that Muscovy Court must have been connected in some way with the visit of Peter the Great of Russia in 1698.

]]> By: Phil Maxwell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/31/charles-goss-vanishing-london/#comment-723935 Wed, 31 Dec 2014 18:51:49 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=126292#comment-723935 Wonderful.

]]> By: John Campbell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/31/charles-goss-vanishing-london/#comment-723582 Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:30:24 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=126292#comment-723582 Interesting to see some german signage displayed in one of the featured streets. I wonder if this was part of the ‘little Germany’ district I read of in a previous Spitalfields Life article. Wonderful photos, many thanks.

]]> By: Tony Dorcey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/31/charles-goss-vanishing-london/#comment-723438 Wed, 31 Dec 2014 15:27:24 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=126292#comment-723438 Magnificent! You have drawn my attention to a treasury of images that can help me “see” the streets of London and the daily action on them in the years when my parents were born there (1911 and ’12) and even my grandparents youth (1875 onwards) there. Here is an intriguing thought: Sitting in Vancouver, Canada, reading your delight-full blog on my computer each morning, I am maybe a modern day equivalent of the unknown face at the window, in the shadows, watching the scenes you paint each day. I look forward to tomorrow’s posts and investigating further the glorious collections of historical photos you have revealed to me. Thank you!

]]> By: Jonathon Green https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/31/charles-goss-vanishing-london/#comment-722849 Wed, 31 Dec 2014 11:17:08 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=126292#comment-722849 Goss’ work reminds me of another Charles, Marville, who in the mid-19th century was commissioned by Baron Haussmann to take pictures of the soon-to-be-lost Paris that he, Haussmann, was so willfully, enthusiastically and no doubt profitably destroying. Marville’s images are all over the Internet for those who wish to pursue them.

]]> By: Annie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/31/charles-goss-vanishing-london/#comment-722816 Wed, 31 Dec 2014 11:02:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=126292#comment-722816 What a man. So pleased he realised that things were going to be swept away and did something about it. But so much remains! Check out Crutched Friars on google maps. Also: Botolph’s Alley – strolled down it not long ago and was amused to find a very modern sandwich shop thriving there.

]]> By: Natalie Koch https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/31/charles-goss-vanishing-london/#comment-722810 Wed, 31 Dec 2014 10:59:08 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=126292#comment-722810 Beautiful photographs. A wonderful posting for this last day of the year, which for me is always a bit tinged with melancholy and musings about the fragility of life. Happy 2015!

]]> By: Valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/31/charles-goss-vanishing-london/#comment-722566 Wed, 31 Dec 2014 08:56:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=126292#comment-722566 Thanks for sharing the wonderful photos. Valerie

]]> By: Haydn E Ebbs https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/31/charles-goss-vanishing-london/#comment-722376 Wed, 31 Dec 2014 06:39:47 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=126292#comment-722376 Another GREAT set of photographs, thank you……..

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