Comments on: Tony Hall’s East End Panoramas

By: John Kpiaye

John Kpiaye — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 12:18:37 +0000

Hi, Great photos! Ive just come across this site, and im happy to say that I recognise one of the unnamed streets. The terrace street photo just below the photo of the Leopold Buildings is Caesar Street. It was demolished in the early 1970s. I had a friend named leslie matton who lived at no 2. I use to call for him and we go round the corner to long street and play fooball. His dad use to drive one of the scamell beetle lorrys at the Bishopsgate Depot. Great Site!….Cheers

By: Clare dove

Clare dove — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 22:27:49 +0000

It’s so wonderful to see these images by Tony. They show/embrace my impressions of London when I first visited in the 60’s. Libby, your memory of Tony talking about the olfactory potency of this period “… the smell of tobacco, wet tweed and coal fires.” chimes with my memories of being on trains, living by the Thames and my father’s various offices in the city – especially the tobacco, and BO! 😉

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 20:32:33 +0000

Wonderful images, so glad Tony Hall persisted with his troublesome cameras. I grew up to streets with a shop on every corner. A major part of the local community which saddens me to see have all but disappeared.

By: Ian Silverton

Ian Silverton — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 19:24:11 +0000

Remember the old Tyre Shop in Hackney Road,just around the turning before was a special bike shop,think his name was Blackwells,sold all the latest bikes,for us boys in the 1950s, bought my first new bike from him,at 3 shillings six pence per just about done it,milk round paper round bottle stacking in the pub, he said my next bike should be a hand made frame Claude Butler,which he had in stock at all times, the Rolls Royce of bikes at the time, told me 10 shillings a week would buy it, never did,cars came along I was gone.

By: Rodney Whale

Rodney Whale — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 18:19:33 +0000

I like the facility in today’s message to view panoramically, it is better than using the mouse wheel to enlarge which is my usual practice.

Incidentally have you any photographs of Ivy Lane or Ely Place area of Hoxton?
I ask that because my wife has ancestry there in late 1800’s and early 1900’s.

Rod Whale in Andover, Hampshikre.

By: Gary Arber

Gary Arber — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 16:54:42 +0000

Nice to see inside the dairy shop owned by Rees Jones in Lyal Road , he was a character, he pushed a hand milk cart on his rounds and collected the empties with a trade bike with a front basket.
He was a little man with one eye, he kept his cap pulled down over the other one. he liked a drink, once when pushing his bike with four crates of empty bottles along Roman Road, well drunk, he turned into Lyal Road but let go of the bike which fell and smashed four crates of bottles over the road junction, he staggered home leaving the bike and smashed glass where it was. We all had to go out with brooms and shovels and clear up before the busy traffic in the Roman could continue. Mrs Jones was a very clean woman who would not let him in the bedroom because was a bit smelly, he slept in a chair downstairs with the dog at his feet who barked and awoke him at 4.30 a.m. when the milk delivery arrived. I liked him.
Gary

By: Phil Maxwell

Phil Maxwell — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 12:25:16 +0000

These photographs are marvellous. A unique panoramic essay of a disappeared East End. I particularly liked the panoramas of Old Montague Street; Tony captured it brilliantly before I moved there in 1982.

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 12:03:16 +0000

I “forget” about panoramic photos, (out of sight, out of mind) and then I see great examples like these and I fall in love all over again. This photographer was such a great match with their chosen terrain and topic. I love the way the series of photos, viewed in this one-after-another format gives a feeling of literally zooming down the various narrow streets, catching glimpses of neighbors and shop keepers, etc. Downright cinematic, I thought.
Atmospheric, beautifully-composed, evocative — just plain great!
Love reading the comments from those who recall these special personal landmarks, as ever.
Happy 2018!

By: Leana Pooley

Leana Pooley — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 10:24:30 +0000

I’ve never seen houses with double attics – that attractive terrace in Hessel Street looks continental. I wonder why no street trees were planted – I can’t see any in these striking streetscapes.

By: Colin Allen

Colin Allen — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 10:21:54 +0000

Fabulous images from Tony once again.
The second image looking under the bridge is a spot I knew well as a nipper.
For reference it is the bridge at the extreme right of the first image. Tony has his back to Kingsland road (the waste) .
The church in the background in the second image is All Saints church where, in the ‘50s I sang in the choir. Right of the church is Clarissa street where we lived at Samuel House. Sadly no more. At the end of Clarissa street is the Regents Canal where, as a kid I watch from the window of our flat horses pulling barges.
Great memories!