Comments on: The Doors Of Old London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/03/10/the-doors-of-old-london-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 Sun, 11 Mar 2018 06:20:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jim McDermott https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/03/10/the-doors-of-old-london-x/#comment-1198557 Sun, 11 Mar 2018 06:20:57 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164514#comment-1198557 Those are some proud entrances! By comparison, 10 Downing Street’s looks positively humble. And I have to wonder what the front of 33 Mark Lane looks like, if that’s the tradesmen’s way in!

]]> By: Marla https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/03/10/the-doors-of-old-london-x/#comment-1198542 Sun, 11 Mar 2018 00:20:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164514#comment-1198542 What beautiful doors. Living in the US we have nothing to compare. At all.

]]> By: Gary Arber https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/03/10/the-doors-of-old-london-x/#comment-1198509 Sat, 10 Mar 2018 14:14:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164514#comment-1198509 A large number of these old buildings with their ornate stoneware were destroyed in the war.
On a large riverside bombsite where the Festival Hall now stands a company named “Willment Waterloo” set up a crushing plant in 1946 where lorries carrying the rubble brought it too be crushed into aggregate for the huge rebuilding programme. A huge crusher, about 50 feet high stood beside the roadway up to Waterloo Bridge, a conveyor belt about 75 feet long carried the rubble up to it, this belt was about 6 feet from the pavement parapet and I used to stand and watch the material going up. Pieces of stone statue went by, heads, arms, legs lions heads, tails and paws etc. It was a sad procession.
Gary

]]> By: W. Peter Dunne, G. Cm. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/03/10/the-doors-of-old-london-x/#comment-1198506 Sat, 10 Mar 2018 12:35:40 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164514#comment-1198506 What a wonderful and lovely selection of Photographs.

My only regret is that all were not identified.

Thank you.

]]> By: Gary Arber https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/03/10/the-doors-of-old-london-x/#comment-1198500 Sat, 10 Mar 2018 12:08:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164514#comment-1198500 Such skill !
Take a collection of pictures of old doors, preface it with a fantastic introduction and it turns into a tour back in history populated with ghosts.
Thank you G.A.
Gary

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/03/10/the-doors-of-old-london-x/#comment-1198497 Sat, 10 Mar 2018 11:31:50 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164514#comment-1198497 Greetings from Boston,

GA, thanks for sharing this wonderful collection of portals. I enjoy wandering around London observing such architectural delights.

Particularly liked that elaborate entry to the House of Lords…

]]> By: Paul Loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/03/10/the-doors-of-old-london-x/#comment-1198490 Sat, 10 Mar 2018 09:56:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164514#comment-1198490 The Tower of London door is definitely not a friendly door

]]> By: Gilbert O'Brien https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/03/10/the-doors-of-old-london-x/#comment-1198482 Sat, 10 Mar 2018 08:59:05 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164514#comment-1198482 Such a rich, astonishing, beautiful collections of doors, entrance to a lost world of rich detail and good design. Such sadness too that so much has been lost.

]]> By: Paul Phillips https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/03/10/the-doors-of-old-london-x/#comment-1198478 Sat, 10 Mar 2018 08:13:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=164514#comment-1198478 Incredible images, a shame they were not all captioned, it would have made the journey even more interesting . However, thank you for sharing with us who live so far away.

As a former London Bobby I watched Charwoman after Charwoman scrubbing door steps with some kind of whitening stone before daybreak each morning. Thanks

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