Comments on: Dorothy Rendell’s London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/12/dorothy-rendells-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 Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:44:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Hugh Mann https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/12/dorothy-rendells-london/#comment-1270640 Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:44:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172977#comment-1270640 Great drawings of a vanished London. The demographics of Harry Gosling school have changed utterly – I wonder where the children pictured are now? Australia? Norfolk?

I love novels and children’s books from the postwar decades – they show a safe and orderly world that existed right up to the 1960s, a world you can only find now in remote rural areas (or outside the UK in places like Iceland or Japan).

]]> By: Yvonne Kolessides https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/12/dorothy-rendells-london/#comment-1270146 Wed, 13 Mar 2019 21:02:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172977#comment-1270146 Absolutely wonderful, as always..
Thank you!

]]> By: jenny atkins https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/12/dorothy-rendells-london/#comment-1269836 Tue, 12 Mar 2019 22:51:29 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172977#comment-1269836 I worked for a film company in Carlisle Street just off Soho Square in the 1970’s. Soho was a delight in those days. Brewer Street market, Randall and Aubin the French butchers sold the most wonderful Toulouse sausages. Helena was still at Bianchi’s in Frith Street opposite Ronnie Scotts. Gaston at the French Pub and off course a Monique gave French lessons 1st floor! There were still several workman’s cafs where you had the best bacon and egg sarnies and a small Jewish cafe where I had my first warm pastrami on rye. Or you could go to Cranks for veggie delights or the Japanese Steakhouse, Wheelers, I could go on……..they were the days.

]]> By: Eric Forward https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/12/dorothy-rendells-london/#comment-1269709 Tue, 12 Mar 2019 14:48:24 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172977#comment-1269709 I agree with Diana on both counts. Moments in time captured. Would love to know the date for the Mile End Place painting. Mind you, stepping into that street is like going back in time even now.

]]> By: Diana Levey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/12/dorothy-rendells-london/#comment-1269646 Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:57:58 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172977#comment-1269646 She’s a wonderful artist! Thank you for all you’re doing to bring this very talented person’s work to the world’s attention. And for your determination and skills to educate and promote your many interests and projects to a larger audience!

]]> By: Rupert Bumfrey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/12/dorothy-rendells-london/#comment-1269640 Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:37:38 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172977#comment-1269640 Dorothy’s life has slight echoes with my Aunt Dorothy’s early life!

A child of the Victorian era & a privileged life from her wealthy Father, she was allowed to go to art school in London during WW1, living in a flat in Bayswater overlooking Hyde Park.

However, as her brothers were conscripted she joined up as a Nursing Assistant, eventually ending up as my Grandfather’s personal nurse as he recovered from a broken back, following an accident with a church steeple and his plane! (1918)

She never resumed her art studies and infrequently reminisced over those times.

Thankfully times have changed and there are more opportunities for people to pursue their vocations in the arts in 21st Century.

]]> By: Richard Smith https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/12/dorothy-rendells-london/#comment-1269635 Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:22:40 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172977#comment-1269635 Superb drawings and paintings that speak volumes about Dorothy Rendell’s work. I hope her work lives on for a very long time. Thank you GA.

]]> By: Di Corry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/12/dorothy-rendells-london/#comment-1269631 Tue, 12 Mar 2019 09:28:36 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172977#comment-1269631 Thank you for sharing these delightful drawings with us and for giving Dorothy the recognition she rightly deserves.

]]> By: Lynn Roffee https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/12/dorothy-rendells-london/#comment-1269628 Tue, 12 Mar 2019 09:07:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172977#comment-1269628 What a fabulous set of drawings. How very sad Dorothy didn’t get the recognition that she so richly deserved until now. Those drawings are full of life and detail.

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/12/dorothy-rendells-london/#comment-1269619 Tue, 12 Mar 2019 08:13:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172977#comment-1269619 Fantastic drawings, full of London life!

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