Comments on: Malcolm Tremain’s Spitalfields In The Seventies https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/03/malcolm-tremains-spitalfields-in-the-seventies/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 05 May 2019 18:15:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Ray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/03/malcolm-tremains-spitalfields-in-the-seventies/#comment-1285300 Sun, 05 May 2019 18:15:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174116#comment-1285300 Thank you and please more of these pictures! In our time we tend sometimes to euphemize the past, but its necessary to remember all! London is a continuous development, and its so important to document every decade and its “look&feel”!

]]> By: Pam https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/03/malcolm-tremains-spitalfields-in-the-seventies/#comment-1285028 Fri, 03 May 2019 15:22:01 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174116#comment-1285028 These photos are the real proper East End in the late ’60’s and early ’70’s that all the police officers, ambulance drivers and fire department officers worked in day and night; I know I was one. Luckily, they do not include the terrible smells of the decaying city that had been forgotten after WW2 damaged homes and left vermin and disease to invade the area. The residence were too depressed, poor and floundering in the detritis to dig themselves out. London needs demolishing and cleaning up every 2 to 3 hundred years.

]]> By: Eric Forward https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/03/malcolm-tremains-spitalfields-in-the-seventies/#comment-1285002 Fri, 03 May 2019 11:19:47 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174116#comment-1285002 Quite a few shots of Broad Street station, which was also in the title of a Paul McCartney album & film.

]]> By: Mark Byfield https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/03/malcolm-tremains-spitalfields-in-the-seventies/#comment-1284991 Fri, 03 May 2019 09:28:50 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174116#comment-1284991 Love the photos… and love that old boot scraper!

How about a blog on London’s boot scrapers!

I have an old vice like the one in the photo.

Thank you

Mark

]]> By: Nicholas Sack https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/03/malcolm-tremains-spitalfields-in-the-seventies/#comment-1284987 Fri, 03 May 2019 08:54:47 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174116#comment-1284987 Superb photographs, brimming with atmosphere of neglect and decay. Even without the swastika graffito, the sinister signal cabin on stilts beyond a high-sided footbridge resembles something on the Berlin Wall. The alley at night near Liverpool Street station, with lone figure and office tower reflected in puddle, would make an excellent cover shot for an urban noir novel.

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/03/malcolm-tremains-spitalfields-in-the-seventies/#comment-1284978 Fri, 03 May 2019 07:51:05 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174116#comment-1284978 Great photos some of which could be abstract paintings.

And I have enjoyed going on a detour of the then and now photos as suggested at the end of the blog. Always fascinating to see what has been improved and saved, and some sadly lost, but nearly always disheartening that none of the new build is of any discernible architectural merit – I can’t imagine any future Dan Cruikshanks battling to save the bland modern blocks!

]]> By: Robert https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/03/malcolm-tremains-spitalfields-in-the-seventies/#comment-1284972 Fri, 03 May 2019 07:19:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174116#comment-1284972 Brilliantly curated photography but it’s a very melancholy portrait of a city in decline. It’s a reminder of how far we have come since then.

]]> By: Greg Tingey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/03/malcolm-tremains-spitalfields-in-the-seventies/#comment-1284968 Fri, 03 May 2019 07:07:53 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174116#comment-1284968 The Seventies – when London was probably at its most depressed & decayed.
the only photo that shows any sign of “proper” life is that on the unrebult concourse of Liverpool St station (!)

]]> By: Eric Forward https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/03/malcolm-tremains-spitalfields-in-the-seventies/#comment-1284942 Fri, 03 May 2019 02:11:05 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174116#comment-1284942 Incredible. You can criticise gentrification etc., but you cannot look at these photos and say that largely, the changes around this area have not been generally for the better. I don’t like what is happening to Norton Folgate and do think some of the developments are too far beyond human scale, but those are also side effects of the improvements to the area that then attract foot traffic and commerce. I certainly wouldn’t go back to these times.

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