Doors Of Spitalfields
January 3, 2015
As we enter the threshold and commence the New Year, I present you with the doors of Spitalfields. How many do you recognise and how many will you walk through in 2015?
Underwood Rd
Pedley St
Brick Lane
Fournier St
Commercial St
Deal St
Brick Lane
Fournier St
Princelet St
Fournier St
Brick Lane
Fournier St
Toynbee St
Elder St
Hanbury St
Fournier St
Blossom St
Elder St
Brick Lane
Fournier St
Woodseer St
Fournier St
Hanbury St
Fournier St
Brushfield St
Toynbee St
Princelet St
Wentworth St
Leyden St
Sandys Row
Artillery Lane
Crispin St
Elder St
Spital St
Elder St
Quaker St
Hanbury St
Folgate St
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Thank you.. Just goes to prove how we ignore, care not to look or simply get used to something as ordinary & practicle as a ‘door’, which infact if we care to stop & look, some are quite unique & even beautiful. A very nice collection. Makes you realise how rimes have passed & wonder at the previous souls who lived behind the different pieces of wood. The modern doors chosen, unfortunately look vile & vulgar in comparison. But doesn’t a door make you think ?
Wonderful collection, I am thinking about all those people who will have passed through those doors in the course of time. Valerie
Completely brilliant.
Lovely, all of them so inviting!
Wonderful! You’re making it very difficult to walk by ANY door without looking! Wouldn’t a collection of these photos make a fine poster? “The Doors of Spitalfields”–rather like the Dublin/other cities ones I’ve seen. Thanks for all your delightful, informative, blog entries.
Wonderful addresses!
Love & Peace
ACHIM
I enjoyed the doors very much thank you.
I am always looking for one door that I’ll never forget.
Opposite Nana’s house at 23 Hanbury Street
was a brown arched double door way with
‘Christian Mission to the Jews’
above the doorway. The grand children’s bedroom
was at the front on the first floor. We woke up to the
sound of the Brewers’ Drays on the cobbles and the
door way opposite us.
Does anyone remember it or have a photo please?
Very intriguing, all of them. If only doors could talk, imagine what they have seen through the years…..
The sociology of doors. Fascinating collection.
Love these – and I’d really like to know the story behind the doors.
Excellent selection, communicating volumes and so many of them so good to look at. I wonder where the grilled one in Leyden St leads to – perhaps the yard where the chickens were slaughtered, first by kosher rites, then halal. Hope nowhere more sinister…
Glory Portal!!
Wonderful photos, I recently discovered I had several ancestors who were born, married and were buried around Christ Church and Spitalfields in particular what was Butler Street, now Brune Street. I have made a couple of visits to the area and am fascinated by its history, please keep updating this site and adding photos!! Its great!
Well we wont be walking through the Trumans Brewery Door at 91 Brick Lane as there’s nothing behind it !!… 🙂
Goodness there’s some ugly ones among the finely proportioned restored entrances. I might have to pop over to Princelet Street with my Polyfilla and sandpaper and sort that one out.