https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/01/22/john-hall-accordionist-ambulance-man/ 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, 22 Jan 2015 12:53:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/01/22/john-hall-accordionist-ambulance-man/#comment-789542 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:53:29 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=128476#comment-789542 John, thank you for sharing your excellant photos, so nice to see your life in pictures. I hope you will find happiness in your new home & many hours of pleasure with your music.
It is important that we keep a history of our life & now we can all do this thanks to the
Internet.
Shawdiane
Isle of Wight

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/01/22/john-hall-accordionist-ambulance-man/#comment-788986 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:50:12 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=128476#comment-788986 By coincidence, yesterday I received the book containing Bailey’s photograph of John playing accordion in Ezra Street. ‘Bailey’s East End’ is a handsome and hefty publication that would surely interest all devotees of Spitalfields Life: three hardback volumes in a slipcase. The first covers the 1960s: Whitechapel streets, pubs and clubs, and Reggie Kray’s wedding; the second comprises scenes from the derelict Royal docks in the 1980s; and the third concentrates on the streets and shops in East Ham since 2000, mostly in digital colour. Bailey was brought up in a terraced house in East Ham: a famous portrait of Jean Shrimpton, 1961, was shot in the hallway of the family home in Heigham Road.

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