https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/08/09/s-r-badmin-in-wapping/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 12 Jul 2018 23:22:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/08/09/s-r-badmin-in-wapping/#comment-1215912 Thu, 12 Jul 2018 23:22:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=159274#comment-1215912 Interesting account written by someone who knew some facts but didn’t know about my grandfather as he was always known as Roy, NEVER Stanley!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/08/09/s-r-badmin-in-wapping/#comment-1162245 Wed, 09 Aug 2017 21:54:34 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=159274#comment-1162245 I have always been an admirer of Badmin’s work so it is a treat to see some here, Thank you.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/08/09/s-r-badmin-in-wapping/#comment-1162219 Wed, 09 Aug 2017 15:07:53 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=159274#comment-1162219 I had ‘Village and Town’ and ‘Trees in Britain’ as a nipper in the ’60s, along with a host of Collins Little Gems, and wish I’d kept every one of them. What generation since has been able to name birds, insects and what dwells in the scary bits of ponds? Thanks for the memories, GA.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/08/09/s-r-badmin-in-wapping/#comment-1162193 Wed, 09 Aug 2017 09:09:17 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=159274#comment-1162193 Beautiful painting, and I love that it connects to the Ladybird books of my childhood. I live on Wapping High Street and walk past this every day. The waterway in the centre is now filled in and is the private garden for the Pier Head houses. Graham Norton lives on the side you can see in the painting (to the right closer to the river), and Helen Mirren on the side it’s viewed from. The house with the green door is currently being renovated. There are some great photos of the Beatles in Wapping in the 60s which show them fooling around these buildings and in the now-garden sloping down to the river. They are taken after water access to the Pool had been closed in, but the buildings had all been left to decay. It’s so great to see this idyllic view of it looking so serene and beautiful – not at all what you think of as 1930s Wapping!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/08/09/s-r-badmin-in-wapping/#comment-1162189 Wed, 09 Aug 2017 08:14:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=159274#comment-1162189 I have known his work since I was a child, and always loved it. Valerie

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/08/09/s-r-badmin-in-wapping/#comment-1162188 Wed, 09 Aug 2017 07:52:13 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=159274#comment-1162188 Fill of warmth and light and fine architecture. London dreaming. Good to know the developers didn’t tear these buildings down.

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