Comments on: Makers Of East London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/09/23/makers-of-east-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 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 22:35:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Joan Bailey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/09/23/makers-of-east-london/#comment-1027137 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 22:35:08 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=138635#comment-1027137 How lovely to make a living from one’s own skill and creativity.

]]> By: Deby (in Canada) https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/09/23/makers-of-east-london/#comment-1027133 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 22:27:57 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=138635#comment-1027133 Such a positive post…heartening to see so many talented and happy looking makers.
The photographs are splendid.
cheers
Deby

]]> By: ROBERT GREEN https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/09/23/makers-of-east-london/#comment-1027072 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 20:22:49 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=138635#comment-1027072 Nice to see so many inventive people doing their best to remain self sufficient and independent of corporate business, although I dare say I doubt it will be long before politicians think of a way to put a stop all this free thinking individualism.

]]> By: Pauline Taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/09/23/makers-of-east-london/#comment-1027000 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 17:42:10 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=138635#comment-1027000 Congratulations to all these people for keeping the world a better place to live in by their skill and craftsmanship. All power to their elbow!!

]]> By: Linda Granfield https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/09/23/makers-of-east-london/#comment-1026898 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 13:36:36 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=138635#comment-1026898 I love these photographs! Such quiet joyfulness and peace in each.

The framing of the images is wonderful, the lighting superb.

My great-grandfather was a boot-maker in Bromley circa 1900. I wish I had such a photo of him making boots in the sunlight, instead of no image of him at all. These photos help me imagine him.

Thank you!

]]> By: Maureen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/09/23/makers-of-east-london/#comment-1026853 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 11:41:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=138635#comment-1026853 This post just makes me happy! Happy to see people doing what they love and creating. A good inspiration to start my day here across the pond.

]]> By: Denise https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/09/23/makers-of-east-london/#comment-1026822 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 10:38:36 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=138635#comment-1026822 It takes an outsider ; a visitor to stand steady and still and in thundering wonder at the grandeur and richness of your majestic city . London offers intoxicating rambles at every turn .
And willingly .
A glorious and unalterable truth : forevermore .

The photographs are evocative images of originals of the species under a gentle light which has never once sliced at the eye .

” Here is London , giddy London …” Morrissey

“This music crept by me upon the waters”
And along the Strand, up Queen Victoria Street.
O City City, I can sometimes hear
Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street,
The pleasant whining of a mandoline
And a clatter and a chatter from within
Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls
Of Magnus Martyr hold
Inexplicable splendour of Ionian white and gold. ” T. S . Eliot

A city still in construction and built by the will of working men and women over
millenia .

and ” Really I must buy a pencil .”

Live long , Gentle Author

]]> By: armier https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/09/23/makers-of-east-london/#comment-1026794 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 09:31:57 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=138635#comment-1026794 God bless the Gentle Author.

Why, oh why, oh why, ohio, won’t/doesn’t anyone else take an interest and shine a little light [or a giant spotlight] on more maker stories like these.

Reminds me of a line by Primo Levi;
….the solemn, balanced weight of the hammer, the concentrated power of a blade…

]]> By: Vivienne https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/09/23/makers-of-east-london/#comment-1026772 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:33:40 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=138635#comment-1026772 Lovely photos and it’s great to see the evolution of arts and crafts in London’s east end.

]]> By: Annie G https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/09/23/makers-of-east-london/#comment-1026770 Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:32:44 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=138635#comment-1026770 Very very pleasing indeed.

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