Comments on: Wonderful London’s East End https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/23/wonderful-londons-east-end-x/ 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, 27 Jul 2019 11:31:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Gill Scott https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/23/wonderful-londons-east-end-x/#comment-1300743 Sat, 27 Jul 2019 11:31:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175877#comment-1300743 Is the ‘old charity school’ in Wapping the old, old Raines? If so it’s still there and one of the oldest secular buildings still standing in Tower Hamlets. My dad taught at Raines from 1947 to his retirement in the late 70’s – that was in the old building in Arbour Square. When he died the school held a memorial service for him in the ‘new’ building in Bethnal Green, which is now under treat of closure due to poor results leading to low enrolment.

]]> By: Pamela Traves https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/23/wonderful-londons-east-end-x/#comment-1300344 Wed, 24 Jul 2019 07:41:30 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175877#comment-1300344 Amazing Pictures!! It all looks so dark. Thank You So Much!!

]]> By: Su C. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/23/wonderful-londons-east-end-x/#comment-1300199 Tue, 23 Jul 2019 13:56:59 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175877#comment-1300199 Wonderful images. Very evocative. I like to wonder what was just said, who laughed loudest, or what street noise was last heard when I see old photos where time is stopped and the subjects forever alive.

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/23/wonderful-londons-east-end-x/#comment-1300186 Tue, 23 Jul 2019 12:42:50 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175877#comment-1300186 “Those were the days my friend …” — Amazing views into a long gone period.

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/23/wonderful-londons-east-end-x/#comment-1300176 Tue, 23 Jul 2019 12:01:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175877#comment-1300176 Greetings from Boston,

GA, what a great selection of old photos of East End life from the magazine WONDERFUL LONDON. Particularly touching were the last two – one of the constable guiding a gaggle of children across a busy road and the final pic showing the retched condition of slum children.

Presumably, the former children were on their way to school, while the other stragglers were left to their own devices.

]]> By: Mathilde Grange https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/23/wonderful-londons-east-end-x/#comment-1300171 Tue, 23 Jul 2019 11:00:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175877#comment-1300171 Wonderful pictures, amazing. Thank you so much.

]]> By: Linda Granfield https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/23/wonderful-londons-east-end-x/#comment-1300165 Tue, 23 Jul 2019 10:38:52 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=175877#comment-1300165 Incredible images.

Those folios on the cart–I wonder what gems were within!
The coiled ropes on the vessel — that image recalls some of Whistler’s etchings.
Crosby Hall–I checked CH on Cheyne Walk and it’s not showing the same frontage?

“Buttresses of vegetables”–well, yes, indeed, the display is very architectural!

Some treasures here. More William Whiffin, please.

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