Comments on: This Is Jimmy’s London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/05/this-is-jimmys-london/ 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, 06 Mar 2019 20:23:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: marc hopla https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/05/this-is-jimmys-london/#comment-1268783 Wed, 06 Mar 2019 20:23:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172783#comment-1268783 Wonderful!!!! A lost London, gone forever. True, we can look back through rose tinted nostalgia, but there are some things that are priceless and will never come back.

]]> By: Geoff Stocker https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/05/this-is-jimmys-london/#comment-1268390 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 20:03:20 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172783#comment-1268390 Like you Lyn the photo of the polar bear reminds me of visits to London Zoo in the fifties we lived quite close by and my father took me a lot l never enjoyed it seeing the animals in small cages made me sad. But I loved the other photos of London happier memories.

]]> By: lyn https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/05/this-is-jimmys-london/#comment-1268336 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 17:52:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172783#comment-1268336 i really liked all these old pictures the policeman in white gloves directing the traffic especially! but the polar bear balancing for the public in London Zoo made me sad.

]]> By: Gary Arber https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/05/this-is-jimmys-london/#comment-1268284 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 15:20:28 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172783#comment-1268284 The sheep in the park were part of the war effort. All over Britain farmers were allowed to graze cattle in the parks, some of the rural ones had fields growing crops. With food rationed every spare piece of land was used. In domestic gardens people dug up their lawns to grow food. Where I lived we all also kept chickens and rabbits. at dawn in Romford the dawn chorus of crowing cocks was deafening
Gary

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/05/this-is-jimmys-london/#comment-1268256 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 14:20:10 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172783#comment-1268256 Wonderful sights from London Town!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/05/this-is-jimmys-london/#comment-1268213 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 12:04:20 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172783#comment-1268213 Oh, just LOOK at those unique outdoor light fixtures (Charing Cross Road photo)! I did a double
then-triple take.

Thanks for this wonderful travel log.

]]> By: Paul Loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/05/this-is-jimmys-london/#comment-1268210 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 11:56:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172783#comment-1268210 I just took a look at Dirty Dicks website it seems to have changed a bit since I last had a pint there. Those days you could call it Dirty . I wonder what has become of the old black cat hanging by its tail from the rafters.
I loved the photo of the sheep in Green Park . If you saw those sheep now you know you would’ve had just one drink too many !

]]> By: Jenny https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/05/this-is-jimmys-london/#comment-1268169 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 10:13:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172783#comment-1268169 Such an accomplished little book with marvellous photos. Love it. Thanks.

]]> By: Mathilde Grange https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/05/this-is-jimmys-london/#comment-1268163 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 09:54:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172783#comment-1268163 Oh, beautiful, fantastic.

]]> By: Bob Davenport https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/05/this-is-jimmys-london/#comment-1268143 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 09:08:38 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172783#comment-1268143 ‘Of course, I’ve read my Pepys.’ ‘Of course’? Was that tongue-in-cheek, I wonder, or was there really a time when having read Pepys could be taken for granted? If so, when did it end?

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