Comments on: Neil Martinson, Photographer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/05/neil-martinson-photographer/ 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, 08 Feb 2018 15:25:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/05/neil-martinson-photographer/#comment-1194490 Thu, 08 Feb 2018 15:25:59 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163681#comment-1194490 Grand photographs!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/05/neil-martinson-photographer/#comment-1194288 Tue, 06 Feb 2018 23:09:08 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163681#comment-1194288 Amazing images, bringing a past era to life with such efficacy!

]]> By: mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/05/neil-martinson-photographer/#comment-1194158 Mon, 05 Feb 2018 19:35:08 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163681#comment-1194158 Turn the clock back! Sublime images of working class heroes of the nineteen seventies. Everyone smoking, almost certainly everyone passed on by now. If only they could see what their London and Country had become. Perhaps not. The streets belonged to us then.

]]> By: Annie S https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/05/neil-martinson-photographer/#comment-1194119 Mon, 05 Feb 2018 13:41:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163681#comment-1194119 …the lady florist making the dog floral tribute with a cigarette in her mouth – wonderful!!

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/05/neil-martinson-photographer/#comment-1194114 Mon, 05 Feb 2018 11:58:05 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163681#comment-1194114 Greetings from Boston,

GA, thanks for such another real life, gritty view of ordinary lives of folks in the East End three decades ago. Imagine seeing someone smoking today at his work station amid that myriad of fabrics!

Some things have changed for the better…

]]> By: Ron Bunting https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/05/neil-martinson-photographer/#comment-1194091 Mon, 05 Feb 2018 09:58:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163681#comment-1194091 Is Brian Simons still teaching? He would be retired I guess ,if not I bet that Afro is long gone. . And lew the barber showing the bloke the results of his new hair cut was a hoot!

]]> By: Mary https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/05/neil-martinson-photographer/#comment-1194087 Mon, 05 Feb 2018 09:40:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163681#comment-1194087 Wonderful images! I love the one of the teacher in the playground ringing the school bell. I bet he was great fun.

]]> By: StephenJ https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/05/neil-martinson-photographer/#comment-1194082 Mon, 05 Feb 2018 09:20:03 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163681#comment-1194082 I remember “No.6″…

Coffin nails!

]]> By: Bailey Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/05/neil-martinson-photographer/#comment-1194076 Mon, 05 Feb 2018 08:44:28 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163681#comment-1194076 Apparently, Brian Ferry recently stated that ‘no one’ – as in, one assumes, hip and trendy – lived in the East End in the early 70s. He obviously had not met Ken Jacobs!

]]> By: Jim McDermott https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/05/neil-martinson-photographer/#comment-1194066 Mon, 05 Feb 2018 06:35:01 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=163681#comment-1194066 They give a real feel of the period. And it’s nice to see so many old Spitalfieldslife acquaintances popping up.

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