Comments on: East End Shopfronts https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/22/east-end-shopfronts/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 06 Jul 2019 06:37:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Denece Sippo https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/22/east-end-shopfronts/#comment-1296757 Sat, 06 Jul 2019 06:37:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=173214#comment-1296757 I just tripped over your blog whilst doing some family history research. My grandparents had a shop at 14 Brick Lane. I have a photo of my Dad and his mother (Annie Powell) taken in the doorway about 1918. The family migrated to Australia around 1927. Happy to forward a copy of the photo to you if you would like it.

]]> By: Jo Ross https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/22/east-end-shopfronts/#comment-1273887 Fri, 22 Mar 2019 23:20:11 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=173214#comment-1273887 Just wonderful. Although I do worry about Palfreyman the printers, it all looks slightly chaotic as if the window display is about to collapse

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/22/east-end-shopfronts/#comment-1273867 Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:49:10 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=173214#comment-1273867 I know at lot of family photos were produced as postcards, so it’s good to know the shops were all captured on film too. A perfect way to promote your products, and no doubt one of the earliest forms of Marketing.

]]> By: stephanie Janet pemberton https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/22/east-end-shopfronts/#comment-1273837 Fri, 22 Mar 2019 19:25:49 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=173214#comment-1273837 The faces are are interesting as the well stocked shops.

]]> By: David https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/22/east-end-shopfronts/#comment-1273782 Fri, 22 Mar 2019 13:16:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=173214#comment-1273782 From the era when shopping was still a social activity. Small businesses that employed millions, and specialised in things, and shopkeepers who knew their clients. Compare that to today, where for the most part we have to suffer the bland sameness of big box stores and a vapid millenial who know nothing about what they are there to sell.

]]> By: Richard Pascoe https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/22/east-end-shopfronts/#comment-1273769 Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:05:55 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=173214#comment-1273769 Thank you Phil Mernick and Gentle Author for these wonderful photographs, so rare to see long forgotten shop fronts , especially the ‘ Huxtables Stores ‘ with the children in the upstairs windows and doorway, can’t work out what the lower sign reads as ? and always on the lookout for reflections in the windows !

]]> By: Anne Scott https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/22/east-end-shopfronts/#comment-1273766 Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:49:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=173214#comment-1273766 I watched the movie “This Happy Breed” (from 1944) yesterday. The shopping is delivered to the kitchen and the milk comes in a tin container. The container stuck in my mind as I was thinking will we ever be able to live without plastic containers and plastic wrap again? Then I see the first photo of S. Jones dairy and all the tins, I assume, of milk. I’d love to go shopping at Palfreyman’s – thank you for providing the enlargements

]]> By: Jennifer Newbold https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/22/east-end-shopfronts/#comment-1273759 Fri, 22 Mar 2019 10:57:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=173214#comment-1273759 Fascinating. Maybe it’s just that I am an American and we call it something else… but what is nut lard? Or nut margarine? Initially I thought it might be peanut butter but “lard” and “margarine” imply different consistencies.

Also, thank you for deciphering the sign at Garwood grocers. I thought medical advice and bananas were an incongruous pairing!

]]> By: Sue https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/22/east-end-shopfronts/#comment-1273738 Fri, 22 Mar 2019 08:42:01 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=173214#comment-1273738 Wonderful!

]]> By: Mathilde Grange https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/22/east-end-shopfronts/#comment-1273736 Fri, 22 Mar 2019 08:32:12 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=173214#comment-1273736 Beautiful.

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