Comments on: Malcolm Tremain’s City & East End

By: Ian Brent

Ian Brent — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 17:40:28 +0000

Hello. Many thanks for all of these photographs. I worked at 78 Old Broad Street during the early/mid ’80s, and well remember the breathing problems we had there from all of the dust generated by the demolition of Broad Street Station :-((

Like Caroline Martin, I also remember Kossoffs and their bread pudding, a substantial lunch for impecunious me! In response to Pauline Taylor, a wheatsheaf carving can denote a pub or a bakery.

Again, thank you, Mr. Tremain, for stirring the memories.

By: Caroline Martin

Caroline Martin — Mon, 20 May 2019 20:23:50 +0000

I used to work at City Gate House in Finsbury Square from 1978-83 and get the train into Liverpool St station. I used to walk along Sun Street ally sometimes and remember passing a lot of old derelict Peabody type tenement buildings. I used to go to the Kossoffs bakery at lunchtime to buy rolls, they were the best value with lots of fillings and they used to do a lovely slab of bread pudding for about 30p. The Nat West tower was the tallest building at the time and I remember seeing the cranes on the top when they were building it. I moved from London 30 years ago and go back to visit my sister but the one time I went back to my old haunts around Finsbury Square I didn’t recognise the area. My memories are frozen in time from when I used to work there which is when a lot of these photos were taken.

By: Darryl Baker

Darryl Baker — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:06:43 +0000

I lived on Winthrop Street in the mid 1960’s, I often used the passageway in your photograph. The locals had another name for it (P*ss Allie) due to the ever present pungent odour of urine having been used by countless men who had been taken short after frequented one of the many pubs on Whitechapel Road.

By: essexcockney

essexcockney — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 14:01:08 +0000

great photographs good to see more images of my younger life ,we played in Liverpool street station one end and Victoria park the other end and every place in between ,its sad that my east end has gone now but I have my memories .my one regret was not having much money so I could not afford much film ,but I did take some photographs in the 1970s and 1980s ,if you were around in tower hamlets then have a look at my website you may see yourself or someone you know ,and if you like it please leave a nice comment.
thanks paul

By: pauline taylor

pauline taylor — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 22:47:15 +0000

Malcolm Tremain certainly has an eye for catching an eerie view, there is almost an air of foreboding in some of these to me, and I think he must have been very patient in waiting for just the right moment to press the shutter. Is that a wheatsheaf on the corner of the building in Durward Street? Perhaps it was a pub at some time?

By: Ros

Ros — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 22:26:00 +0000

More beautifully composed photos from this man with an eye. Thanks.

By: Patricia Celeveland-Peck

Patricia Celeveland-Peck — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 17:19:57 +0000

Wonderful pictures- especially his use of reflections and shadows. These images of long-gone places always fill me with a deep regret that I’ll never be able to see them as they were.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 15:55:20 +0000

Coleman St Ward School, spent a term(?) there in 1965/1966. The school had already closed. I went to Sir John Cass but a problem with some classroom ceilings (?) meant our class moved out for a while. Loved it, only class in the school, open fires, making tea for our teacher! Lol

By: Gill

Gill — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 14:02:59 +0000

I knew George! I used to chat to him on the way home from work…. sometimes for so long that I’d miss my train!
Thank you for these pictures.

By: Hilda Kean

Hilda Kean — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 09:14:08 +0000

I really liked these . Broad Street Station seems barely remembered now though I used it regularly to get to the City from Dalston Junction in just 3 minutes !No public transport provides that service today.

Hope you are going to consider a future publication of these images?