Comments on: Paul Anthony Gardner’s East End

By: Anne Elizabeth

Anne Elizabeth — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 21:43:57 +0000

I love these pictures! How can I come in contact with the photographer?

By: Mike Zihni

Mike Zihni — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:44:58 +0000

The WS Chalk building was actually on Pancras Road in Kings Cross. Was destroyed in 2003 to build the terminal for the eurostar. It stood in front of the German Gymnasium.

By: Chris Connor

Chris Connor — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 21:16:11 +0000

Great photos, very evocative. Maybe because they are in black & white it adds to the atmosphere. Like them very much.

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 20:28:14 +0000

Look at those gorgeous pews in the Lutheran church. Reminds me a bit of the boxed pews in Holy Trinity Church, York.

By: Derek Bailey

Derek Bailey — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 20:27:01 +0000

Greetings from Colorado: Great photos indeed. I lived in Wapping and walked across the Lift Bridge, Shadwell Basin going to and from Raines Grammar School twice daily in the late 1940’s. The bridge was featured in a sequence from a 1955 movie called “Prize of Gold” with Richard Widmark and Mai Zetterling.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 19:43:23 +0000

Wow – can’t believe the first picture (J.J. & S.W. Chalk) is where my granddad started working in 1912. I still have the letter offering him the job. He worked there full time until 1962 and then on and off until the early 70s. He started as a clerk aged 16/17 and retired as the manager.

By: Di Corry

Di Corry — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 19:34:41 +0000

Thank you GA for sharing these atmospheric and beautiful photographs, many of those places are familiar sights to me.
I drive past the Baptist Chapel in Grove Road regularly and it looks in better shape now. However, some of the houses in East India Dock Road haven’t changed much since Paul’s visit.
The stories those images could tell……..

By: Jennifer Newbold

Jennifer Newbold — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 18:43:52 +0000

I’ve always loved the 18th century sailing ships on the Trinity Green Almshouses from afar (that is, Massachusetts). I hope they are still there!

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 18:36:19 +0000

Another gem G.A! Superb images.

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 18:12:37 +0000

The London Tramways shed Shoreditch was an electrical sub-station for the LCC Tramways. Designed in the mid-1900s by architect E Vincent Harris, who was also responsible for Bow tram depot (now Bow bus garage), and who only died in 1971.