Comments on: East End Film Show

By: Stephen Foster

Stephen Foster — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:00:57 +0000

Thanks for sharing that David. I love how it’s a Scottish guy that commentated. Being one myself, I am also drawn to London more that say Glasgow or Edinburgh, but don’t tell them that.

By: David

David — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 09:30:19 +0000

Sometimes you can view ‘The London Nobody Knows’ on the web, but here’s a short video comparing locations in the documentary with those in the present: https://vimeo.com/134118673

By: Brian R BirdH

Brian R BirdH — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 10:35:05 +0000

have the book & the DVD, both of which I’ve enjoyed over the years. Have a good screening.

By: Sue

Sue — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 09:38:12 +0000

Wish I were nearer London as I would love to see it. In fact it does sound vaguely familiar, maybe I saw it at the cinema at the time.

By: pauline taylor

pauline taylor — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 17:59:10 +0000

The great Geoffrey Fletcher books can be found in most second hand bookshops at reasonable prices. Charity shops tend to charge more for them, as they do with many books, but I am talking with my book sellers hat on of course.

I am a fan of James Mason as I am of all men who have a lovely speaking voice like his!!

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:54:16 +0000

The book and the film are both wonderful in the depiction of the city in the post-war period before the town planners, with fatuous dreams of skywalks and concrete housing estates, destroyed those communities that still survived. The film today is more than a nostalgic look back, it is a powerful reminder of the how London was once a unique city of many communities and villages, instead of the homogenous corporate building site that it has become.
I look forward to Tuesday night’s viewing, I’m sure there will be a moist eye or two among the audience.

By: Annie S

Annie S — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 10:04:52 +0000

It’s a great film – can recommend!

By: Nicholas Sack

Nicholas Sack — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 09:41:02 +0000

Good to read such an eloquent appreciation of the splendid Geoffrey Fletcher; I too am a devotee of his atmospheric drawings and pithy prose. ‘The London Nobody Knows’ is still in print – with a new introduction by Dan Cruickshank – and most of his dozen-or-so other books about overlooked aspects of the capital are easily available, secondhand. I found one going for a song in a charity shop in Watney Market, just off the Commercial Road – which seemed entirely apt.

By: rosemaryHoffman

rosemaryHoffman — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 07:41:45 +0000

I have actually got the book somewhere in my collection !

By: Valerie-Jael

Valerie-Jael — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 04:58:26 +0000

Sounds great, and once again I am sorry to be here and not there! Valerie