Comments on: Burdekin’s London Nights https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/10/28/burdekins-london-nights/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 28 Oct 2019 18:58:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Pimlico Pete https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/10/28/burdekins-london-nights/#comment-1318296 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 18:58:54 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177546#comment-1318296 It was a highly enjoyable runaround hunting down the location for photo number 3 “Street Corner”. It’s the Rose & Crown pub on the corner of London House Yard, just north of the entrance steps of St Paul’s Cathedral. In the background we see one of the warehouse buildings of Hitchcock, Williams & Co.

The pub is marked PH on the Ordnance Survey of 1896 but is unmarked on OS 1953 when much of the area had been damaged or destroyed as a result of the Blitz.

It gets a mention in Proceedings of the Old Bailey of 1878; a customer had committed cheque fraud here and elsewhere in London.

]]> By: SaveHOVE https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/10/28/burdekins-london-nights/#comment-1318287 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:01:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177546#comment-1318287 Reminds that night once had more depth of meaning…and silence. These are incredible images. Enveloping….

]]> By: Caro McAdam https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/10/28/burdekins-london-nights/#comment-1318285 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:42:41 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177546#comment-1318285 Hello from another night bird! These are fabulous.. dream-like.. and so wonderful that he captured them before the bombing in WW2.. Thank you!

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/10/28/burdekins-london-nights/#comment-1318280 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 14:25:27 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177546#comment-1318280 So evocative!

]]> By: Pauline Taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/10/28/burdekins-london-nights/#comment-1318271 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:35:12 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177546#comment-1318271 Brilliant, these show the art of photography at its best, and Jim has taken the words out of my mouth, they are beautiful and eerie at the same time.

It is always a treat to hear that you, GA, are also a night bird, join the club, I am always still up and about and working until well past midnight when solving a problem or dreaming up a project will always come so much more easily to mind. If only one could do gardening in the dark life would be much easier.

]]> By: Sue https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/10/28/burdekins-london-nights/#comment-1318262 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 09:33:29 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177546#comment-1318262 Absolutely stunning, thank you.

]]> By: Mathilde Grange https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/10/28/burdekins-london-nights/#comment-1318256 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 09:01:06 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177546#comment-1318256 A magical deserted nocturnal London. Cats also like the night.

]]> By: Valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/10/28/burdekins-london-nights/#comment-1318254 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 08:43:34 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177546#comment-1318254 Wonderful photos. Valerie

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/10/28/burdekins-london-nights/#comment-1318253 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 08:40:50 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177546#comment-1318253 Greetings from Boston,

GA, I am a morning gal, but I can appreciate these beautiful, haunting night images.

My favorites are “St Bartholomew’s Hospital,” Smithfield and “Temple Gardens.”

]]> By: PennyP https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/10/28/burdekins-london-nights/#comment-1318252 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 08:36:21 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=177546#comment-1318252 Bill Sykes and Bullseye would look at home in the first photo. Wonderful – thank you.

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