Comments on: Derek Brook’s East End

By: Adrian |Mcgregor

Adrian |Mcgregor — Wed, 22 May 2019 03:14:51 +0000

I would like to contact Derek brook is he is still extant. I was a journalist in London in 1966 when Derek and I attended a Jimi Hendrix concert for photos and interview for an Australian glossy mazaine.

By: Michael Edward Hardie

Michael Edward Hardie — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:54:16 +0000

These pictures really take me back to when I was much younger than I am now

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 20:26:26 +0000

Great images, and impressed with the virtual absence of litter. However tight money was, people took a pride in where they lived.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 22:48:25 +0000

These are stunning photos evocative of a by-gone era.
By the way, I think the fifth photo down of Whitechapel Road with the young child in the front has been flipped and is showing a mirror image of the original. There are certain clues such as the shop sign with backwards writing. I’m not sure why this has happened?
Anyway the images are absolutely beautiful and I hope there will be an exhibition showing these photos at some point! Thanks for sharing.

By: Lew Tassell

Lew Tassell — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 00:06:47 +0000

I love these pictures, they are so evocative for me, I was at Bishopsgate Police Station from 1967 onwards, maybe 3 0r 4 years after they were taken. I was a City of London policeman on the beat from 1969 living in Bishopsgate and part of my beat was often along Middlesex Street – the other side of the street where you see the two cops walking together. They are Metropolitan policemen, the boundary of the City ran down Middlesex Street and we covered the other side, not that we always stayed within our boundary. From 1971 I also used to walk to meet my girlfriend (wife to be) from the station to The London Hospital where she was a student nurse training to be a SRN.
A great find GA

By: Roger Tiller

Roger Tiller — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 17:59:04 +0000

What wonderful photos I hope they find more of them as they bring back great memories for me, everybody helped each other.

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:50:11 +0000

I love this series. For whatever reason, this series of London photos awakened my very strong nostalgia for the little town where I grew up, outside of Pittsburgh. (late Fifties, mid-Sixties) While there is not a literal connection in any way, these photos show a place that is not beautiful in the least — and yet I can feel so strongly how the inhabitants loved it and found it familiar and
homelike. That is what my little hometown was like also. It had an appeal that ONLY the
inhabitants could see and feel. It is long-gone now.
I so enjoyed these photos and the stirring comments.
Thank you, GA

By: Trevor Jameson

Trevor Jameson — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 15:00:23 +0000

These are wonderful photographs from my childhood. I hope that they may be available in a book one day.

By: Achim

Achim — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 14:46:41 +0000

Wonderful photos from an ancient time …

Love & Peace
ACHIM

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 13:00:54 +0000

Superb photos thank you. I could be mistaken
But the blazer badges if the four boys appears
to be from the local Parmiters Grammar. Not an easy thing to get there in those days