Comments on: The East End In The Afternoon https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/22/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-x/ 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, 22 Jan 2018 18:49:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: John Hooker https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/22/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-x/#comment-1192298 Mon, 22 Jan 2018 18:49:01 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=161168#comment-1192298 The photo of the two gents in caps looks like Hackney Road.
Just in view on the left is the Joiners Arms with the tallest building on the right Ye Old Axe pub. Nice Vauxhall Victor FB going past as well.

]]> By: Ron Bunting https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/22/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-x/#comment-1176663 Thu, 26 Oct 2017 22:35:53 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=161168#comment-1176663 The car the two boys are playing on is a Singer SM1500 . I’ve had a couple, they were great little cars with a good turn of speed for their day in the early 50’s.

]]> By: Philip Marriage https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/22/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-x/#comment-1175771 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 23:11:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=161168#comment-1175771 These are so good, perfectly capturing a time of innocence, empty streets during the afternoon, children playing with what they could find, street markets full of bargains. More please!

Having studied Tony’s other photographs I believe images 1111 and 1057 could well be Old Montague Street before it was demolished.

]]> By: mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/22/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-x/#comment-1175678 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 14:37:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=161168#comment-1175678 It hurts me to see this landscape already gone or taken by force by the rich. The market scenes vim with humanity. Horse and cart very Steptoe. Lovely.

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/22/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-x/#comment-1175666 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 13:05:15 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=161168#comment-1175666 What wonderful photographs with such evocative images. I’m so pleased to be old enough to remember similar scenes from my childhood, with the corner shops, and a strong sense of community among neighbours where we all knew each other, and played out in the streets with the other children who lived near.

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/22/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-x/#comment-1175651 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 11:40:06 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=161168#comment-1175651 Greetings from Boston,

GA, what a stunning collection of photos of a world soon to disappear. I particularly liked the first one of the small house with the clean widows & curtains that will not long survive the encroaching high rises.

“He loved the history of the East End, the Victorian overlap, and the sense that it was the last of Dickens’ London.” Well said.

It is fortunate that Bishopgate exists to preserve these treasures.

]]> By: Phil Maxwell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/22/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-x/#comment-1175649 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 11:21:38 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=161168#comment-1175649 Thanks for publishing these wonderful photographs by Tony.

]]> By: Annie Martin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/22/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-x/#comment-1175627 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 09:04:06 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=161168#comment-1175627 Ridley Road market looks exactly the same still. Don’t recognise anything else. I waa a baby at this time but a lot of this way of life was still around in the early 70s.

]]> By: Bailey Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/22/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-x/#comment-1175625 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 08:51:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=161168#comment-1175625 Some of these photographs remind me of the mood created in the BBC’s Call the Midwife drama series. I wonder if they carry/carried out some of their research at the Bishopsgate institute? I would love to visit the Institute next time I visit London, though I am not sure I’d know where to begin. People and places, I guess.

]]> By: Sharon O'Connor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/22/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-x/#comment-1175612 Sun, 22 Oct 2017 06:51:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=161168#comment-1175612 You may already know but the house named ‘Holly Villas’ is in Clapton Passage, Hackney:
http://hackneybuildings.org/items/show/19358

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