Comments on: A Walk With Philip Cunningham https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/06/a-walk-with-philip-cunningham/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 06 Mar 2017 23:26:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: John DLC https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/06/a-walk-with-philip-cunningham/#comment-1139930 Mon, 06 Mar 2017 23:26:42 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=154753#comment-1139930 I lived in Brady Street Dwellings from 1965 to c. 69/70.
We were the only family in the block who weren’t Jewish (Dad Catholic, Mum CofE just to mix it up a bit). We were also probably the youngest family.
Remember the street looking like that including Issy’s sweetshop and the brewery over the road.
The thing is if that’s where you live you don’t realise it’s a poor neighbourhood it’s just where you live.

]]> By: pauline taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/06/a-walk-with-philip-cunningham/#comment-1139881 Mon, 06 Mar 2017 17:42:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=154753#comment-1139881 Why are steps and doorways always so fascinating. Look at the one in Alie St., who could fail to be intrigued, and does it still exist or has it fallen foul of a developer?

]]> By: Phil https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/06/a-walk-with-philip-cunningham/#comment-1139878 Mon, 06 Mar 2017 17:19:21 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=154753#comment-1139878 Fascinating picture – how time has changed things.
Thanks sharing this information and keep up the great work.

Really enjoy reading you blogs each day, although can’t work out how you find the time to do them.

Phil

]]> By: Ros https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/06/a-walk-with-philip-cunningham/#comment-1139851 Mon, 06 Mar 2017 13:54:06 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=154753#comment-1139851 So worthwhile that these photos exist. That’s indeed how it was. Is it possible for the photographer to put more exact dates on any of them?

]]> By: chris long https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/06/a-walk-with-philip-cunningham/#comment-1139827 Mon, 06 Mar 2017 11:27:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=154753#comment-1139827 the picture of 137 mile end rd – on the right, you can see the now wonderfully restored malplaquet house !
i have checked the detail from google maps- the windows & brickwork are identical. the lower property to the left has since been demolished. as has all those shop fronts of course.
i read an article about the shops being built in front & it triggered my memory of them.
any more pictures, perhaps with malplaquet house fully in frame?

]]> By: frank hadley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/06/a-walk-with-philip-cunningham/#comment-1139821 Mon, 06 Mar 2017 11:13:12 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=154753#comment-1139821 Great photo’s of the old east end . it looks pretty grim, having lived in old castle street 1948 – 1963 we didn’t see it like that as many people moved away and the area just fell into decay
until re-development cleaned most of it up. if we had known how the house prices were to soar
we would have held on and become quite wealthy as house prices have gone through the roof.
still i loved growing up in the lane and nobody who hasn’t lived there will never have experienced
the sheer buzz the area had it was full of characters and many good pubs to enjoy on a night out
lastly it being a mainly jewish area you couldn’t wish for better neighbours.
how i still miss the old lane,at least we have our memories.

]]> By: Michael Knight https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/06/a-walk-with-philip-cunningham/#comment-1139819 Mon, 06 Mar 2017 11:11:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=154753#comment-1139819 A fascinating record of the effects of time and change – although it is rather depressing to see how these once vibrant parts of old London were abandoned to decay and neglect. What, I wonder, do some of the various sites shown in these photographs of a generation or more ago look like today?

]]> By: Philip Marriage https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/06/a-walk-with-philip-cunningham/#comment-1139794 Mon, 06 Mar 2017 08:18:52 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=154753#comment-1139794 Lovely! More please.

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