Comments on: In Search Of Val Perrin’s Brick Lane

By: MICHAEL CARR

MICHAEL CARR — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 06:34:05 +0000

I lived a pre-fab in CODE street in the late 1940s there were 7 pre-fabs on the left of your photo
unlike a lot of people in the area, the pre-fab was quite luxurious all mod cons plus a garden,
we used to play cricket against the station wall , the burnt out building on the corner was home to
some homeless people they were drying out some tea leaves and started a fire and ended up jumping from the windows . the other end of the street on the same side the body of a young lady
was found murdered, I lived in code street till the early 1960s, and moved to melbourne australia
in 1972 .

By: Phil Maxwell

Phil Maxwell — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 13:00:26 +0000

Thanks for this. Brilliant.

By: mlaiuppa

mlaiuppa — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 23:14:06 +0000

I love these historical comparison photos. I have an entire book of them for my city called “Then and Now.”

I can see the gentrification of the area. In some cases for the better, in some cases for the worse.

I apologize for the exportation of gang graffiti that seems to have infected the rest of the world. That generation of parents were irresponsible and we shall forever be reminded of it.

By: gkbowood

gkbowood — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 17:59:03 +0000

I thought it was sad that the brick roads kept being asphalted over instead of re-bricked and then Ah-Hah! There actually is a photo that showed bricks were none were before!! Love this little bit of time travel- Thanks.

By: Richard Pascoe

Richard Pascoe — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 15:10:26 +0000

Thank you GA for your wonderful ‘Then and Now ‘ photographs, especially the one of Code St and Shoreditch station, my GG Grandfather James Sylvester and family lived in no 1 Butlers Buildings , at the other end of Code St in 1861, and to walk along that same cobbled street, gives you goosebumps !

By: Ian Thomas

Ian Thomas — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 12:40:22 +0000

At best the it looks the same and with all the current graffiti many places look much worse.

By: Martin Guilfoyle

Martin Guilfoyle — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 11:07:11 +0000

It is so hard to convince people I am telling the truth when I remind them Shoreditch station was only serviced during peak hours Mon-Fri and Sunday morning for Petticoat Lane. I wonder how the Elizabeth line will affect areas how the Overground Line has.

Still in hope for a more imaginative name than the Overground!

By: Philip Marriage

Philip Marriage — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 11:02:29 +0000

Fascinating comparisons – more please!

By: Mathilde Grange

Mathilde Grange — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 09:45:08 +0000

Very interesting, thank you.

By: James Harris

James Harris — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 09:23:13 +0000

Hind sight, rose tinted glasses? Probably. Having looked at these comparison photographs I find it hard to be positive about the area in the here and now. The Code St & Shoreditch Station photograph differences typify how I see things now.
An interesting set of photographs though, thank you.