Comments on: Under The Pedley St Arch

By: Mike Pedley

Mike Pedley — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 17:26:28 +0000

Does anybody know how Pedley Street got iits name?

By: Brian Cook

Brian Cook — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 18:53:18 +0000

All the character has been destroyed by a cacophony of colour and pony art

By: mark limbrick

mark limbrick — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 22:16:00 +0000

The only open air cess pit that commands a licence fee to use it.
LBTH has long advertised it as a film location. But who wants to live in Victorian squalor, I thought that’s what film set make-believe was for. The graffiti is an improvement, a bit of dazzle.
After you’ve had to step around burnt out cars, shit, needles and corpses when taking your kid to school, the nostalgia of the old black and white photographs wears thin.
In over 40 years I have seen plenty of the detritus of life, and death, under this arch and on the footbridge.

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 06:38:01 +0000

One of the first places I photographed when I started taking photography seriously many years ago. One of those places in which the atmosphere and character changes according to the weather. Without wishing to be pedantic, the arch is in Fleet Street Hill, not Pedley Street, which used to cross Allen Gardens. Today it is cut off from Allen Gardens by the new railway.
I preferred it without the graffiti, the lines and curves of the arch and stairs looked beautiful, as John Claridge’s brilliant pictures show.

By: Rod

Rod — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 19:46:21 +0000

I’m of the opinion that the graffiti improves the place no end

By: Phil Maxwell

Phil Maxwell — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 18:12:17 +0000

This is one of my favourite spaces in the East End. Photographed it many times myself. As usual John’s photographs are wonderful.

By: Martin Beaver

Martin Beaver — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 12:41:24 +0000

That first 1968 shot is just fantastic. A beautiful, beautiful piece of compostion. If it is possible to buy a copy of it I would love to do so.
But whereas generally I think black and white photography offers way more than colour, I thought that the colour shot of the arches now with the back walls covered in graffiti was joyous.
The juxtaposition of these two in this Spitalfields Life was genius!

By: Wills

Wills — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 08:57:26 +0000

Looks as if there’s room on one side or the other for a 24-hour shop/coffee shop to transform the place!

By: frank hadley

frank hadley — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 08:43:48 +0000

I used pedley st. arch to cross over the railway bridge to cheshire st. as i went to school in wellclose square, that was 1956-1960, there were many cabinet makers in the area in those days,
it looks pretty grim now.across the bridge was a cafe which we often went in our lunch break although we still had our school dinner. they would have a large bowl of dripping on the counter a slice of bread and dripping for 2d. sadly we only have memories of those care-free days.
many thanks for posting.

By: vanda

vanda — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 05:23:52 +0000

Why do certain people of the UK desecrate the beautiful building with graffitti. Something needs to be done to the people who do this, make them repair the damage or a stiff jail sentence should be given.