Comments on: In Old Globetown https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/21/in-old-globetown/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:38:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Sue Edwards https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/21/in-old-globetown/#comment-1329115 Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:38:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171957#comment-1329115 Mendip Houses was my first home. Number 5 to be precise. I went to the school opposite, shopped in Brown’s for a stick of chalk to play hopscotch with my siblings. Our family left there when I was 4 years old but my memories are many. My grandparents lived in Gretton Houses not far away. We ate in Kelly’s regularly. My Dad drank in the Floris’s Arms. So many good times even then. Missed the place at first. We went to live in the country and are still there to this day. I have been back several times to see how things have changed, and they haven’t much.

]]> By: Molly Porter https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/21/in-old-globetown/#comment-1253177 Tue, 22 Jan 2019 09:55:06 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171957#comment-1253177 This area was unknown to me, and I look forward to walking around there someday, hopefully with a friend for whom it will also be new.
A question which arises for me is to wonder if what was originally significant(and beautiful) social housing remains such, or has it, like so much else, been lost to private ownership?

]]> By: Di Corry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/21/in-old-globetown/#comment-1253172 Tue, 22 Jan 2019 09:26:57 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171957#comment-1253172 Those streets and scenes were a familiar ‘cut through’ for me as I made regular trips to the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood from the other side of Victoria Park.
Emerging from Bonner Gate and then along Bonner Road under the canopy of plane trees …….
almost mirroring your stroll in reverse.
My happiness was complete when I arrived at the Museum with it’s terracotta walls and those fascinating (for an East End kid) friezes. I really was in another place……..

]]> By: sprite https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/21/in-old-globetown/#comment-1253137 Tue, 22 Jan 2019 02:18:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171957#comment-1253137 weird to see my patch of the woods and it also feels weird to know that Merceron once lived so close!!! but it’s good to know more about local history

]]> By: John Venes https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/21/in-old-globetown/#comment-1253123 Mon, 21 Jan 2019 22:44:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171957#comment-1253123 Great pictures, especially in that light.
I went to Parmiter’s school in the 1960s and used to go through Museum Gardens and then cut through
Mulberry House flats.
Later when I was old enough, the Camel and the Florists were regular haunts.
The blocks of flats there must have been solid as they survived bombing in the war.
The area was special as it seemed so different from the image of the East End that people had.
There was tree-lined Approach road, with my school, and the Approach Tavern (still going) and then the Chest Hospital and the entrance to Victoria Park.
Really, an oasis from the hustle outside.

]]> By: Peter Holford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/21/in-old-globetown/#comment-1253099 Mon, 21 Jan 2019 18:23:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171957#comment-1253099 Bright, low winter sunshine is great for photography and you have made the most of it. As always your tours of the streets of the ‘old’ East End reveal interesting places previously unknown to me. And it’s good to see my grandad’s old pub, the Bishop Bonner, is still standing.

]]> By: Steve Buckley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/21/in-old-globetown/#comment-1253080 Mon, 21 Jan 2019 15:25:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171957#comment-1253080 What an excellent set of photographs. I’d like to think that our paths may have crossed as you set out on your walk.

We took our children to Spitalfields for the weekend and had a wonderful time from Friday afternoon through to Sunday evening when we had to make the long journey back to Cumbria but not before they’d made their third visit to the beigel shop.

The reason for our visit (I’ve been many times, but first for the kids) was to show them a bit of their long-ago heritage: The ‘Golden Harp’ on the northern side of the market and the site of the Hope Tavern in Hoxton – all kept long ago by ‘Homewoods’ who combined brewing with silk-weaving.

We also looked for Vine Court off Whitechapel Road where a Homewood once retired and we looked at St Dunstan’s in Stepney where Homewoods once were married.

We will return.

Keep up the excellent work.

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/21/in-old-globetown/#comment-1253074 Mon, 21 Jan 2019 13:52:48 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171957#comment-1253074 I can definitely feel a Doreen Fletcher influence in your photos! Great stuff..

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/21/in-old-globetown/#comment-1253073 Mon, 21 Jan 2019 13:38:34 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171957#comment-1253073 Greetings from chilly Boston,

GA, what a lovely mid-winter stroll you took in Globetown. These properties are so well preserved. I was particularly impressed with the façade of THE CAMEL and the well-tended memorial to the “former residents of Cyrpus St who died in war” from Bethal Green.

Missing London today…

]]> By: pauline taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/01/21/in-old-globetown/#comment-1253062 Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:48:49 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=171957#comment-1253062 How amazingly clean everywhere looks, a real credit to the local authority, whoever they are, and not a high rise building to be seen, what a treat.

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