Comments on: Women Of The New East End https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/21/women-of-the-new-east-end/ 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, 02 Apr 2018 19:17:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/21/women-of-the-new-east-end/#comment-1202059 Mon, 02 Apr 2018 19:17:13 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164148#comment-1202059 Fabulous!

]]> By: Lori Newcomb https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/21/women-of-the-new-east-end/#comment-1197492 Thu, 01 Mar 2018 06:10:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164148#comment-1197492 These are like a new series of Cries of London — although the only crying is by a few newborns!

]]> By: Sally Hirst https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/21/women-of-the-new-east-end/#comment-1197295 Mon, 26 Feb 2018 20:48:03 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164148#comment-1197295 A truly great set of photos. They are so down to earth and yet inspiring. All young girls should see these and know there are many paths in life.

]]> By: Colin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/21/women-of-the-new-east-end/#comment-1196962 Thu, 22 Feb 2018 23:24:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164148#comment-1196962 love these informal portraits, especially the bunny wrangler!

]]> By: Phil Maxwell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/21/women-of-the-new-east-end/#comment-1196908 Thu, 22 Feb 2018 06:59:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164148#comment-1196908 Love these. Thanks Sarah.

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/21/women-of-the-new-east-end/#comment-1196866 Wed, 21 Feb 2018 13:10:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164148#comment-1196866 Greetings from Boston,

GA, thanks for sharing Sarah Ainslee’s wonderful portraits from the Hackney Museum collection. Such variety and these women look proud to be engaged in their particular occupations.

]]> By: Gary Arber https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/21/women-of-the-new-east-end/#comment-1196865 Wed, 21 Feb 2018 12:56:36 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164148#comment-1196865 Women taking prominent positions in the East End is not a new thing.
As a child in the 1930’s I new the Rev. Mary Collins who was the minister at North Bow Congregational Church that was in Roman Road. My father was at the time her Church Secretary.
She died in the London Hospital during the war, my father used to visit her there, she took an interest in me. She asked my father to bring me to visit her in the hospital, as she had heard that I was going to my new high school. She said that I would be learning French at this school, This wonderful woman on her death bed had sent to the British & Foreign Bible Society for a set of the Gospels in French that she said would help me in my studies.
Gary

]]> By: Claire Sancroft https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/21/women-of-the-new-east-end/#comment-1196864 Wed, 21 Feb 2018 12:47:20 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164148#comment-1196864 Great pictures! I would like to see some stay at home mums celebrated too, I believe this is such an important job often over looked.

]]> By: Paul Loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/21/women-of-the-new-east-end/#comment-1196863 Wed, 21 Feb 2018 12:45:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164148#comment-1196863 This was not the Hackney of the 50’s and 60’s that I grew up in. At one point in time , If you saw a woman driving a car down Mare St it would turn your head . Now my head has turned full circle. For those who have never lived through those previous generations it just a matter of course to see women do those jobs . For those of us men who can remember the world of “Men Only Jobs” seeing these women in action ,will always be a source of “secret” envy and amazement.

]]> By: Frances Donnelly https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/02/21/women-of-the-new-east-end/#comment-1196861 Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:57:35 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164148#comment-1196861 What a truly wonderful, heartwarming and excellent set of photographs.In these very dark times it is crucial and necessary to show how far women have come and the progress they have made to empower themselves. Well done!

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