Comments on: Ron McCormick’s Whitechapel https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/04/05/ron-mccormicks-whitechapel/ 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, 12 Mar 2020 20:18:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: murray batley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/04/05/ron-mccormicks-whitechapel/#comment-1332414 Thu, 12 Mar 2020 20:18:35 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=165203#comment-1332414 Ron’s photos are the best east end pics I have seen

]]> By: jackie carmichael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/04/05/ron-mccormicks-whitechapel/#comment-1225842 Fri, 14 Sep 2018 18:07:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=165203#comment-1225842 Issy Weinberg was my uncle (my fathers brother) he died in the 1980’s, can’t quite remember when. Every Christmas he would print cards for my mum & dad to send out -mum was not Jewish & we celebrated Christmas. Whenever we moved, which was quite often, we would always get a supply of printed letter paper – this was an age when one wrote letters. When our son was born Uncle Issy printed some super birth announcement cards for us and the same when we had our daughter.
An interesting and entertaining man who I still miss. I have tried with little success to find out about the family history, just know that on the 1911 census his father and mother list their place of birth as Russia, although I believe it was on the borders of Russia and Poland. There were some family stories told but I am not sure how true they were.
I do know that Issy and his half brother Max were involved in something and did go to Russia in the late 20’s or 30’s

]]> By: Phil Maxwell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/04/05/ron-mccormicks-whitechapel/#comment-1219529 Sat, 11 Aug 2018 11:58:02 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=165203#comment-1219529 Amazing!

]]> By: Sue Thornton https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/04/05/ron-mccormicks-whitechapel/#comment-1217736 Sun, 29 Jul 2018 14:13:17 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=165203#comment-1217736 What wonderful photographs and record of that time. Have you any of Jubilee St and the mansions round there, also Murphy’s on Bethnal Green Rd and the Bethnal Green Baths, which was quite a building. I lived there (Jubilee St) at that time and am interested in it from a nostalgic viewpoint too. There was a little collection of Jewish shops in a shopping precinct nearby too, which was also interesting, even though the little precinct was ‘modern’.

]]> By: Homer Sykes https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/04/05/ron-mccormicks-whitechapel/#comment-1216830 Sat, 21 Jul 2018 07:53:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=165203#comment-1216830 Some wonderful work.

]]> By: Ron McCormick https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/04/05/ron-mccormicks-whitechapel/#comment-1203800 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 08:50:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=165203#comment-1203800 Oh – and thanks to everyone else on here who have posted such encouraging comments about my photographs. I hope you will have a chance to see many more of them before too long.

]]> By: Ron McCormick https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/04/05/ron-mccormicks-whitechapel/#comment-1203799 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 08:48:17 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=165203#comment-1203799 Hugh Macfarlane – The printer is Issy Weinberg who had a small letterpress workshop at 138 Brick lane. He printed the first two editions of Stepney Words (No 1) the celebrated book of schoolchildren’s poetry which was published by myself and Chris Searle in 1971. I lived just around the corner at 20 Princelet Street and had got together with Chris in late 1970 working with him and using my photographs to inspire the pupils in his class to write about their own experiences – we went on to publish them in the face of opposition from the school governors and resulted in Chris’s dismissal and the Stepney Schoolkids strike recounted here. http://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/08/16/the-stepney-school-strike-of-1971/ Reality Press is the imprint that we used producing many small publications from my studio on the first floor of No20. We sponsored publications by the nascent Basement Writers and produced posters and ‘agit-prop’ for many local community groups and bought a small press of our own housed in premises on Roman Road.

Issy Weinberg himself had an interesting history being an emigre jew from eastern europe, I understand he and his father before him had been involved in radical socialist movements and his father Barruch Weinberg had produced many radical publications for the Yiddish Workers Circle in East London. The story is well told by Chris Searle in his autobiography “Isaac and I: A Life in Poetry’ by Chris Searle – Five Leaves Publications, Nottingham 1917

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/04/05/ron-mccormicks-whitechapel/#comment-1202931 Sun, 08 Apr 2018 21:55:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=165203#comment-1202931 The photographs you share with us just keep getting better and better

]]> By: Leila, Cumber https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/04/05/ron-mccormicks-whitechapel/#comment-1202920 Sun, 08 Apr 2018 19:27:17 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=165203#comment-1202920 Nostalgia is wonderful. A time full of memories

]]> By: Bailey Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/04/05/ron-mccormicks-whitechapel/#comment-1202760 Fri, 06 Apr 2018 19:01:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=165203#comment-1202760 The tailor in Fournier St somehow makes me think of Eddie Marson.

Great photographs, which convey a time and place so well.

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