Comments on: Malcolm Tremain’s Spitalfields In Colour

By: stefany reich-silber

stefany reich-silber — Sat, 14 May 2016 21:58:39 +0000

Great pictures! I really enjoyed your 80s pics. of Spitalfields. I also love to explore London and take photos. My mother and I did this together for years. A lot of my pictures are taken in various parts the East End. It makes me sad to see what is gone…luckily there is still quite a lot of it left.

And then the cobblers photo essay. Great topic, great faces, great characters, and text.

Keep up the good work. I am glad you are documenting.

By: frank hadley

frank hadley — Thu, 12 May 2016 17:27:38 +0000

Many thanks for posting such wonderful photos, i lived locally from 1948-1963 i went to school in gun st. and used to run along the tunnel in liverpool st. station with my friends in the 1950s, we would often catch a train at old broad st. station to gospel oak for a day out. what one has to remember is that these photos were taken of an area undergoing redevelopment and that is why it looks so bleak which it wasn’t. the market was always cleaned and hosed down late after the market had closed. thanks for the memories.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 12 May 2016 16:12:00 +0000

Hi Grace, some of the trash was left after the end of the fruit and vegetable market, packing cases etc, though why it wasn’t cleared away properly I don’t know. Perhaps it was because this area of London used to be pretty run down and the authorities didn’t bother.

By: Cheryl Lench

Cheryl Lench — Thu, 12 May 2016 15:34:40 +0000

I went to Central Foundation School for girls in Spitalfields, thank you for such wonderful photographs and all the happy memories that came flooding back

By: grace caruso

grace caruso — Thu, 12 May 2016 13:22:37 +0000

Hello: I wanted to tell you that I find your pictures fascinating, not just the subjects but the shots themselves. My son is a photographer so I know how difficult it is to get some of the shots that you post for us. I live in a medium sized city in Michigan in the USA. I occasionally find the pictures with a fair amount of trash very disturbing. Is there a separate story about this?

By: Valerie-Jael

Valerie-Jael — Thu, 12 May 2016 10:59:04 +0000

Great photos! Thanks for sharing. Valerie

By: Terry holt

Terry holt — Thu, 12 May 2016 10:28:44 +0000

Great photos,worked on Verdes as a porter for a short time about 1977 or 78

By: chris brennan

chris brennan — Thu, 12 May 2016 09:48:51 +0000

A trip into a dim yet not so distant past. The images provoke a mixed bag of feelings, some of them represent London as a young adolescent, awkward, scrawny and open to suggestion, incredibly vulnerable. Yet others leave me wishing I could have been there, amongst the rubble.

By: Philip Marriage

Philip Marriage — Thu, 12 May 2016 09:41:41 +0000

So many photos of the East End are in black and white that it’s all too easy to think everything was grey and dismal in times past. But the sun shone then as it does today and it’s great to see these photos in colour, especially the appropriately names Sun Passage around the side of Liverpool Street Station.

By: Will Evans

Will Evans — Thu, 12 May 2016 08:31:13 +0000

The Verde and Company shop on Brushfield Street remains. Great photos of a rapidly changing part of the city.