Comments on: Philip Cunningham’s London Docks https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/02/philip-cunninghams-london-docks/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 05 May 2017 19:40:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Georgie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/02/philip-cunninghams-london-docks/#comment-1148637 Fri, 05 May 2017 19:40:13 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157184#comment-1148637 Never been to the docks myself, unfortunately. But these photos capture what I can only imagine to be a wonderful, characteristic place.
Georgie

]]> By: Malcolm https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/02/philip-cunninghams-london-docks/#comment-1148595 Fri, 05 May 2017 12:44:28 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157184#comment-1148595 The closure of the docks was the death of London as a great trading nation. The river almost died too. The subsequent development of the area into a second financial services district led to the death of local communities, like the Isle of Dogs, which had been neglected for years. The East End, as we knew it, was already in a state of decay and depression and the death of the docks finished it off. What exists today is a bright, shiny and utterly charmless conurbation of steel, glass and heartless-ness that has no time for nostalgia about the history, people or communities that preceded it.

]]> By: Gary Arber https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/02/philip-cunninghams-london-docks/#comment-1148137 Tue, 02 May 2017 10:55:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157184#comment-1148137 The development of docklands caused a boom of moneymaking over the entire East End.
The man who owned the yard behind the shop adjacent to mine put three large caravans in it and 18 workers on the development lived there.
Gary

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/02/philip-cunninghams-london-docks/#comment-1148121 Tue, 02 May 2017 08:57:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157184#comment-1148121 Greetings from Boston,

As a tourist, I really enjoyed my visit to the Docklands Museum, nice trip up the river too. Missing London today…

]]> By: Nicky Akehurst https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/02/philip-cunninghams-london-docks/#comment-1148120 Tue, 02 May 2017 08:42:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157184#comment-1148120 Great shots and a wonderful archive of the area.

]]> By: Valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/05/02/philip-cunninghams-london-docks/#comment-1148101 Tue, 02 May 2017 04:57:40 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=157184#comment-1148101 Wonderful photos, for me filled with childhood memories. Valerie

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