Comments on: This Is Jimmy’s London, 1944 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/09/30/this-is-jimmys-london-1944/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 02 Oct 2016 11:39:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/09/30/this-is-jimmys-london-1944/#comment-1109862 Sun, 02 Oct 2016 11:39:51 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=150169#comment-1109862 Wonderful look into a very special period. War ends next year!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: john campbell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/09/30/this-is-jimmys-london-1944/#comment-1109568 Fri, 30 Sep 2016 17:24:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=150169#comment-1109568 The chap in the speakers corner photo looks just like Freud
Could it be him?

]]> By: violet hoarder https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/09/30/this-is-jimmys-london-1944/#comment-1109553 Fri, 30 Sep 2016 14:42:13 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=150169#comment-1109553 Just wonderful!

]]> By: Francis Bright https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/09/30/this-is-jimmys-london-1944/#comment-1109551 Fri, 30 Sep 2016 13:42:38 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=150169#comment-1109551 That well-dressed gent with glasses and a grey beard looking over the produce at the Covent Garden Market looks very much like Sigmund Freud, who lived in Hampstead in 1938-39. I’m almost certain it’s him.

]]> By: janet green https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/09/30/this-is-jimmys-london-1944/#comment-1109535 Fri, 30 Sep 2016 11:43:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=150169#comment-1109535 And ‘thank you’ Jimmy for those wonderful photos and comments of a vibrant city and it’s citizens. I really enjoyed this post. Although many were before my time, it brought back memories of my childhood when some of these images might have been taken.

]]> By: Nick https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/09/30/this-is-jimmys-london-1944/#comment-1109532 Fri, 30 Sep 2016 11:31:57 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=150169#comment-1109532 How recently did they have polar bears in London zoo?

]]> By: Patrick https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/09/30/this-is-jimmys-london-1944/#comment-1109507 Fri, 30 Sep 2016 08:02:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=150169#comment-1109507 Love the image of the pool of London and the light fittings on the bookshop on Charing Cross Road. Fascinating

]]> By: Steph https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/09/30/this-is-jimmys-london-1944/#comment-1109501 Fri, 30 Sep 2016 06:50:02 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=150169#comment-1109501 ‘To find funny little pubs with funny little bars and mix with all kinds of people, I think it’s the wisest thing anyone could do and it’s what I’ve always longed to try.’ My gran taught me this too with our daytrips together.

I still stubbornly think you have to be dead up to your neck to not enjoy London, but be quick it is vanishing fast due to the political preference for overseas investors to be haunting the centre rather than ordinary 3D living of resident Londoners. Hope Labour can make a difference here.

]]> By: Joan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/09/30/this-is-jimmys-london-1944/#comment-1109500 Fri, 30 Sep 2016 06:34:17 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=150169#comment-1109500 I say, old boy, the Capital looks capital. Can’t wait till my next leave. Piccadilly and the East End here I come!

]]> By: Caroline Bottomley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/09/30/this-is-jimmys-london-1944/#comment-1109491 Fri, 30 Sep 2016 05:18:52 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=150169#comment-1109491 And suprised to see sheep in Green Park in 1944 – there must have been rationing and hunger, ie Green Park probably wasn’t very safe for sheep?

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