Comments on: In Stepney, 1963 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/14/in-stepney-1963/ 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, 01 Jan 2024 11:19:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Mario https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/14/in-stepney-1963/#comment-1535631 Mon, 01 Jan 2024 11:19:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162367#comment-1535631 About pictures – amazing atmosphere propably there was.

]]> By: Adrienne Roche https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/14/in-stepney-1963/#comment-1197099 Sat, 24 Feb 2018 14:31:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162367#comment-1197099 Loved reading this; beautifully written as all pieces are.

]]> By: mick hardie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/14/in-stepney-1963/#comment-1187789 Thu, 21 Dec 2017 16:51:17 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162367#comment-1187789 Great photos but I think the Buxton street picture is Bacon street

]]> By: Patricia watson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/14/in-stepney-1963/#comment-1187618 Wed, 20 Dec 2017 17:00:57 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162367#comment-1187618 Really enjoyed reading your story Nonna,had a friend with same name Hungerford Street Stepney. I remember the Shoe shop & many more times you mention, have got identical bits in my own Autobiography I started in 1945 just after our lovely Daddy died, on VE day. Remember him having grouch about the housing in those days, didn’t understand much of it at the time But. when it was time for his daughters & sons w e were treated abominable, right up to the 80’s . the only reason for moving as far away as poss. would never have moved if we were treated Fairley. You have hit the nail right on the head, with all you written hear. Thank you for these memories pet, very best wises & good luck with more story. Have a very happy Christmas to you & yours bless … pat Watson & clan

]]> By: Nonna Rivieccio https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/14/in-stepney-1963/#comment-1187466 Tue, 19 Dec 2017 22:35:21 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162367#comment-1187466 Amazing piece of reading as always. I knew all these streets having lived in Stepney Green until I was 25yrs old. Great photos. Thanks so much! Keep the good work up. So much history. May I take this opportunity of wishing you a Happy Christmas with a Healthy, Prosperous, Serene and Peaceful 2018!

]]> By: Kitanz https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/14/in-stepney-1963/#comment-1186448 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 23:23:36 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162367#comment-1186448 Wonderful Old Pictures, I Love them So Very Much! Thank You So Much!

]]> By: David Knight https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/14/in-stepney-1963/#comment-1186425 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 21:18:10 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162367#comment-1186425 Beautiful photographs and a wonderful post. The photograph captioned ‘Whitechapel’ looks very much like Buxton Street, with the prefabs that used tonne on allen gardens. Do you think it could be?

]]> By: mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/14/in-stepney-1963/#comment-1186421 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 21:00:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162367#comment-1186421 Excellent article and wondrous snaps, interesting comments also.

During trips to Aldgate East in 1977 -78 to find a ship at the Merchant Navy pool, traveling from

Cambridge to Liverpool Street, I was always fascinated by the bomb sites, derelict buildings and

seemingly large spaces between formally terraced houses as I passed Bethnal Green. As late as

the late

seventies! Like the

author, even as a teenager I couldn’t grasp why this scene of dilapidation existed and it wasn’t

until years later that I realized it was successive governments, though mostly tory, that just

didn’t

and still don’t give a damn about us working class.

]]> By: Pat Butt https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/14/in-stepney-1963/#comment-1186403 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 19:20:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162367#comment-1186403 I so enjoyed the article and pictures, very evocative of the 60’s. My dad was a tally man for Wickhams and we lived in Vallance Road, having moved into our modern maisonette from a multiple occupancy house in Grantley Street. I was too young to realise the loss of community, but Hereford Estate had a vibrant Tenants Association that brought families together.
The bulldozed bomb sites made a great playground in the snow of 1963!

]]> By: Stephen Barry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/12/14/in-stepney-1963/#comment-1186376 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 16:48:29 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=162367#comment-1186376 These photos brought memories tumbling back. I was at Davenant School in Whitechapel Road in the mid-1950s and remember many of these streets before they were torn down or ‘gentrified’ We used to go to a tiny sweeetshop in Old Momtague Street at lunchtimes which was run by an elderly Jewish couple who were Holocaust survivors. I regret not asking them about their life before the War, and feel guilty for the occasional 3p chocolate bar I ‘removed’ when they were not looking. Thanks for the story and the photos and for such a wonderful site.

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