Comments on: Spitalfields In Colour https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/07/spitalfields-in-colour/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 10 Jun 2019 21:31:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Fiona https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/07/spitalfields-in-colour/#comment-1292080 Mon, 10 Jun 2019 21:31:53 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171689#comment-1292080 Spitalfields was a working market. There were always crates, broken and intact, strewn around and the paper wrappers from the oranges floating around because of the traders. I used to climb over crates to get to school at the fore mentioned Central Foundation. There would be quite alot of noise and calling out then when the market closed the streets would be quite deserted. These photos capture the place well and beautifully. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Many found the area depressing and moved away but it wasn’t, it was a really special place with a strong community, quite wonderful in my memory.

]]> By: David https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/07/spitalfields-in-colour/#comment-1251185 Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:10:49 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171689#comment-1251185 Was there a garbage collectors strike on at the time?

]]> By: Vivienne Cuff https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/07/spitalfields-in-colour/#comment-1249879 Tue, 08 Jan 2019 21:19:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171689#comment-1249879 I love the colours, and wish Ektachrome film was reissued.

It would be interesting to have photos of the same streets to show what they are like now.

]]> By: Sarah Catterall https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/07/spitalfields-in-colour/#comment-1249769 Mon, 07 Jan 2019 23:32:02 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171689#comment-1249769 Trained as a Nurse at the London in 1983 Remember the locals calling us Angels

]]> By: Jill wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/07/spitalfields-in-colour/#comment-1249749 Mon, 07 Jan 2019 20:06:53 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171689#comment-1249749 Mmmm.. nice pile of firewood in Brushfield Street!

]]> By: G J BAKER https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/07/spitalfields-in-colour/#comment-1249747 Mon, 07 Jan 2019 19:53:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171689#comment-1249747 All looks a bit sad and down in the dumps. Perhaps you could arrange some current pics taken from the EXACT same spots in order to compare Thatcherite Spitalfields to May Spitalfields. Really enjoy your blog even though I have never been to Spitalfields.

]]> By: grace caruso https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/07/spitalfields-in-colour/#comment-1249733 Mon, 07 Jan 2019 17:30:12 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171689#comment-1249733 The one thing that always strikes me first is that our tolerance for trash has certainly decreased over the years… Then I just leave that and love the rest of them…The color seem particularly good in these photos.

]]> By: Les Berkley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/07/spitalfields-in-colour/#comment-1249729 Mon, 07 Jan 2019 17:00:24 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171689#comment-1249729 Yank here:

We’re losing our real places too. The gentrified Yuppie/Hipster world has its virtues, but the baby’s definitely gone with the bathwater. Where do you go to start anymore? (Positive use of ‘anymore’ is a Philadelphia oddity.) Places like this have an organic reality that is vanishing all too quickly.

]]> By: Adele https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/07/spitalfields-in-colour/#comment-1249717 Mon, 07 Jan 2019 14:24:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171689#comment-1249717 I attended school in Spitalfields. Didn’t anyone take any pics of us schoolgirls in our distinctive green uniforms scurrying to get to school on time, or leisurely walking through Brushfield Street at the end of the day? Agree with commenter above, there was so much more than the piles of rubbish.

]]> By: Su Westerman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/07/spitalfields-in-colour/#comment-1249711 Mon, 07 Jan 2019 13:43:38 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171689#comment-1249711 Wonderful. The ‘N’ hanging on for dear life on the Widegate St Salvation Army sign seems to metaphorically say so much!

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