Comments on: Dan Cruickshank’s Spitalfields Photographs

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 19:19:21 +0000

To JGV. – I am also a distant descendent of Boniface Claisse too! Reach out to me! paultoleary @ gmail.com

By: Pamela Firth

Pamela Firth — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 07:00:07 +0000

Thank you so much for these wonderful photos, I have been in photography and taught adults all my life. I find what ever your subject matter is you will have an amazing profession or hobby for life. I still have classes ( voluntary ) and I’m 75 next week. The old photos of London I particularly like as they show just how society lived. We have been fortunate to be able to come over to the UK many times ( my family came from Cornwall) With Covid I have been restricted in what I can do , but I love restoring old photos and with photoshop it had kept me amused.
Keep up the good work and we love your shows here in Australia . Keep safe and cheers Pam Firth

By: Ken Stewart

Ken Stewart — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 08:48:02 +0000

Sad that most of the weavers houses have gone like most of the area around Poplar where I was born has gone. Slater Street on a Sunday was a fond memory

By: David Reynolds

David Reynolds — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 15:08:00 +0000

A great picture celebration of times gone by, our family lived in the area from 1740 to 1855. Thank you, Regards David

By: Keith Styles

Keith Styles — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 15:41:19 +0000

I am an East Ender and born and bred in Bethnal Green. But I love these many pictures of old Spitalfields. Myself and my family lived and worked around Spitalfields, Whitechapel, Bethnal Green etc many years ago. The 1960 and 1970s were tough times for all back then but we muddled through life then. I had Irish and German ancestors who lived in East London. My dads mums Irish family lived in Little Pearl Street, Pelham Street, etc. They were Irish Catholics and went to St Ann’s RC Church in Underwood Street (now Underwood Road) – that’s still standing. But Little Pearl Street is now Jerome Street, but it’s layout hasn’t changed, just the cramped houses have long gone. My mum’s father’s family worked for furriers around Folgate Street, Fluer de Lisle Street, etc, but i often wonder what happened to the furrier Sid Keye. When i was growing up in the sixties and seventies i used to visit my mum at work on her sewing machine in the old buildings then.

By: terry kenny

terry kenny — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 11:49:14 +0000

hi did anyone no the kenny family, out of greatern building thankyou

By: Peter Montagu-Williams

Peter Montagu-Williams — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 14:35:34 +0000

Dan Cruickshank has done a wonderful job in drawing attention to this, fast disappearing, part of London. “Authentic London”. An area of London where many immigrants came to ply their trades, with success, before moving onwards and upwards when, toward the later part of the 19th century the area declined badly. It was then that my great uncle worked for many years as a Magistrate at the Worship Street and Thames Police Court. Here he was able to help so many of the poor and destitute of Spitalfields and surrounding areas. He became known as “The Poor Man’s Magistrate”. That which has not been demolished is Authentic London of which too much has already been brutaly destroyed. Enough destruction has already been carried out. Lets retain just a small part of domestic history.

By: Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 11:49:30 +0000

Weavers weaving ? Move to here in sudbury suffolk.we have 3 silk weaving companies still here,

By: Jules

Jules — Mon, 25 May 2015 22:04:13 +0000

This is for JGV in America, an image of the Flower Pot Pubhttp://www.closedpubs.co.uk/london/e2_bethnalgreen_flowerpot.html

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 24 May 2015 19:16:19 +0000

These are wonderful pictures. I am a new resident in the area and was born abroad, so it is very nice to see how my new neighborough looked like decades ago.