Comments on: Philip Cunningham’s East End Portraits https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/01/15/philip-cunninghams-east-end-portraits/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 05 Apr 2023 18:41:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Gail Williams https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/01/15/philip-cunninghams-east-end-portraits/#comment-1506073 Wed, 05 Apr 2023 18:41:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=153430#comment-1506073 I love these photos! Many, many happy memories evoked of working in Stepney, you, your family and others I met day to day. Michael Chalkley, who was on the board of John Scurr school governors for some time, was seldom off the lips of my headteacher! I enjoyed working with Noorjahan (Abdul Bari’s wife) for years – a hard working and very caring person. How great is the photo of Andrea and Eddie – how could we have known! Last time I saw Andrea was at (I think) Frank’s leaving do when I gave her a guided tour of her old haunt. Hope you, Sally and Andrea have survived the plague and are doing well XXX

]]> By: Yvonne Cheyney https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/01/15/philip-cunninghams-east-end-portraits/#comment-1467772 Fri, 17 Jun 2022 10:24:10 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=153430#comment-1467772 Great to see my friend Professor Bill Fishman in Whitechapel picture. I live in Southern California. Went to school at Robert Montefiore Secondary on Vallance Road. Night School in Hackney Principal Bill Fishman. Kept in touch for many years. He and wife visited us on East Coast in the 70’s when Bill was on sabbatical. He and wife passed away. Bill and Doris are missed by many. He led groups of us from night school on historical trips to Europe in the early 60s. Their children came along.

]]> By: Joyce Callander https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/01/15/philip-cunninghams-east-end-portraits/#comment-1411105 Mon, 20 Sep 2021 13:52:11 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=153430#comment-1411105 Joyce Callander. Great to see old memories of my son Ahmet brother sisters Oxford House was a good place

]]> By: John https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/01/15/philip-cunninghams-east-end-portraits/#comment-1364611 Fri, 22 Jan 2021 20:00:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=153430#comment-1364611 I lived in Whitechapel from 1958 till 1982 when I moved. As I scrolled through this set of photographs I was astounded to see two people that I knew and an entrance that I recognised (Richards tea blending warehouse in Winthrop Street). The first person was Grahame, the window cleaner who cleaned the windows twice a week at my fathers pub. That ladder he is leaning on was a liability (it was huge) and he would bring dad out in a cold sweat as he narrowly missed the ornaments on display at the top of the paneling. In the end my father stopped him from using it indoors and provided him with a proper window cleaners ladder which came to a triangular point and had a leather pad on it, which you then leant against the wall/window. The second person is Bill Fishman, a man of formidable intellect and huge local knowledge.

]]> By: Mike Green https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/01/15/philip-cunninghams-east-end-portraits/#comment-1350037 Thu, 20 Aug 2020 13:18:05 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=153430#comment-1350037 Hi Phil – Wonderful to see the photos of my uncle Terry and aunt Bren at their boozer The Three Crowns, next to Queen Mary College. Terry’s brother James, my uncle Jim (a Normandy veteran) is also captured by your lens. I’m glad to recall ‘John the Fruit’ and the fresh tomatoes he would bring into the pub. I’m glad he was able to do you a good turn – he was a nice old bloke. Terry and Brenda are happily retired in the south of Portugal, but Jim died a few years back (he was born 1920, Terry 18 years later from a brood of 11, nine of whom survived and thrived into adulthood, including my dad who will soon be 93!). If you have any more pics of the Three Crowns in its Green heyday, please post them or direct me to them if you have already. Cheers! Mike Green (junior)

]]> By: Kevin selby https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/01/15/philip-cunninghams-east-end-portraits/#comment-1346396 Sat, 18 Jul 2020 20:16:53 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=153430#comment-1346396 Hi Phil great photos and just spotted John Smeeth I worked with him at 100 Whitechapel road my first job in 1968 brunning advertising a good man he was

]]> By: Stuart E https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/01/15/philip-cunninghams-east-end-portraits/#comment-1338159 Thu, 14 May 2020 00:41:06 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=153430#comment-1338159 Lovely photos of a bygone age, I worked in the same building as Rembert Langham in the late 80s, on the Isle of Dogs where I grew up, a fascinating man and incredible artist. he was building models for Sci Fi films at that point, with an eye for detail that only true artists have.

]]> By: Mehmood Mayet https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/01/15/philip-cunninghams-east-end-portraits/#comment-1312516 Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:01:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=153430#comment-1312516 Thanks for the input. I believe that Yusuf Rasul has passed on. He taught English during my time at the school between 1973-1978 .

]]> By: Mumin Hashim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/01/15/philip-cunninghams-east-end-portraits/#comment-1262395 Sun, 17 Feb 2019 23:45:35 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=153430#comment-1262395 Hi Phil,

I’ve only just found these photos. I used to live in Stepney Green and got to know you and Michael from 1984 onwards. I’d very much like to catch up with you. 0787 506 0595.

]]> By: Phil Cunningham https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/01/15/philip-cunninghams-east-end-portraits/#comment-1260629 Tue, 12 Feb 2019 10:04:24 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=153430#comment-1260629 Hi Mehmood
Yes it is those two playing chess with Paul Tompkin looking on. Of all the schools I’ve taught in the staff at Brooke loved to play chess. I don’t know why!
Philip

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