Comments on: Dan Cruickshank, Photographer

By: Graham

Graham — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 06:16:13 +0000

I enjoy heritage. I enjoy walking around it and even sketching it. My opinion is save a glimpse into the past and how we used to live but not everything about. These buildings don’t accommodate future needs for living nor work. There’s more humans now than there was in the past so we need larger places to live and work. Save one street but not another from demolition.

In my opinion, these photographs are enough to see into the past.

By: mark

mark — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 17:54:44 +0000

Thanks to Rod Beattie for the nuggets of info. Fascinating!

By: Allison

Allison — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 11:06:59 +0000

Thank goodness we have these photographs, but it’s devastating to see what we’ve lost (and what’s replacing it now). One bit of cheer is that in the photographs of Brushfield Street you can see the Verde shop that is still there and still called Verde now owned by the author Jeanette Winterson.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 21:50:49 +0000

I worked at Brick Lane late 70s and wish I had a camera because I didn’t know my Huguenot history, then. I remember open spaces, like bomb sites but – looking at these photos’s – potenntially clearances, too. My Grandparents left Bethnal Green in the 30s. Is there a collection of photographs at a local studies library nearby?

By: Rod Beattie

Rod Beattie — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 20:41:40 +0000

As a small extra aside to the wonderful photographs, the second Hanbury Street photograph shows the shop frontage, number 29, where the body of Annie Chapman one of Jack the Rippers victims was found, in the garden at the rear, on the 8th September 1888. The buildings in the photograph were all demolished in March 1970 to make way for extensions to the Truman Brewery. The actual murder site is now a car park and I believe it is also used as the site of a Sunday market.

By: mark

mark — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 20:25:26 +0000

Great pics from an entertaining person. You can almost smell Jack the Ripper menacing the pathways and Joe Orton visiting the Gents!

By: Gary Arber

Gary Arber — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:11:54 +0000

This vandalism is not only with the big developers, its rot reaches right down to the little men.
I once passed a basement development where a small domed structure with Elizabethan bricks was uncovered and the builder said to the JCB driver “get that in the skip before the nutters see it”
Gary

By: Mimi

Mimi — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 11:25:57 +0000

Sadly this barbarity of the new is happening all over, Brighton has very little left of the older functional Victorian/ Edwardian buildings, they tend to have mysterious fires or roofing removed so they become beyond repair.

By: Phil Cunningham

Phil Cunningham — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 11:25:12 +0000

Very depressing. Land grab and a journey into dark. Just like the LDDC.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:50:50 +0000

Wonderful photographs. I used to live on Calvin St and would love a copy of the photograph of Calvin St above. I have previously seen a drawing of the that house (Survey of London, I think), but never a photograph. I don’t suppose it is possible to buy prints of these photographs?