Comments on: A Couple Of Pints With Tony Hall https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/11/a-couple-of-pints-with-tony-hall/ 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, 21 Jun 2020 05:16:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Dave Hall https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/11/a-couple-of-pints-with-tony-hall/#comment-1342546 Sun, 21 Jun 2020 05:16:02 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178412#comment-1342546 My father was called Tony Hall and he certainly enjoyed a pint or two in his hometown of Wigan .I shared this story with my brother Mike and he surprised me with the revelation that our family on the Hall side came from Spitalfields ! News to me …. apparently in 1841 my Great Grandfather x3 William Hall lived in the Spek building with his brother John and a family that adopted them. They were very poor . This building no longer exists but it stood opposite a coaching Inn with regular coaches as far as York ….which is where he ended up at 16 before marrying a Wigan girl and moving over to Lancashire. Hall is quite a common name but I wonder…..anyway cheers , beautiful touching photography .

]]> By: Stuart goodman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/11/a-couple-of-pints-with-tony-hall/#comment-1324336 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 16:06:28 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178412#comment-1324336 Beautiful, affectionate storytelling photographs.

]]> By: Maurice https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/11/a-couple-of-pints-with-tony-hall/#comment-1324325 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 12:31:23 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178412#comment-1324325 Absolutely fantastic photos. Occasionally drank in the Lord Hood but preferred the pub opposite, the Yorkshire Grey. The Sporting Life wasn’t a bad pub either. Including, I think it was the Lion around the corner, that’s 4 pubs within 2 minutes walk of each other. Great days.

]]> By: Dave Hucker https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/11/a-couple-of-pints-with-tony-hall/#comment-1324318 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 10:26:42 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178412#comment-1324318 Fantastic pictures. Trumans Burton Ales. They were a major brewer in Burton On Trent as well as Brick Lane. In the 1880’s there were 32 brewers in Burton. Now only 1 proper brewery (Marstons) the rest is large scale batch fizzy lager owned by the multinationals- Coors etc.

]]> By: Juliet https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/11/a-couple-of-pints-with-tony-hall/#comment-1324267 Wed, 11 Dec 2019 20:35:37 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178412#comment-1324267 I love these pictures. Every one contours up a smell . My grandparents owned a pub in the sixties and seventies. People weren’t so clean then and there was a humanity about their fragrance. Smoking and ale slopped onto the carpets made for an unimaginable, and not unpleasant,next day smell. The outdoor toilets were a whole other world, strong disinfectant often delivered by solid blocks that were a bit like coconut ice to look at , slightly damp and smelling of human excrescences. What a great series of images. Also the undeveloped bomb sites around the pubs are such nostalgic spaces. We should have kept some of them.

]]> By: John Finn https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/11/a-couple-of-pints-with-tony-hall/#comment-1324255 Wed, 11 Dec 2019 16:29:34 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178412#comment-1324255 Great photos. In the 1970s, I used to drink after work in The Victory in Vyner Street, near the canal at Cambridge Heath. It was a corner pub like the one in the photo, so maybe . . . I heard later that it was one of the Krays hangouts at the time, though I don’t remember anything of them.

Tony used to do cartoons for some of the TU publications that I designed in the 70s and 80s and he would post the artwork at night through the door of the studios I shared – presumably on his way to work? So I never met him!

]]> By: Chris Dixon https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/11/a-couple-of-pints-with-tony-hall/#comment-1324252 Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:40:27 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178412#comment-1324252 The Carlton was on the corner of Bancroft Road and Portelet Road, Bethnal Green. It was only demolished in the past eighteen months or so, a controversial move by developers whose brief was actually to retain the pub and build flats above. I believe that the developers have been instructed to rebuild the pub, but whether this will ever actually be done is debatable.

]]> By: Gregg https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/11/a-couple-of-pints-with-tony-hall/#comment-1324249 Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:01:37 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178412#comment-1324249 Brilliant photos. Brings back lots of memories. NO CELLPHONES – FANTASTIC. Not ever being a resident of the area [More Romford/Hornchurch] I can’t pinpoint locations but the guy reading the newspaper [Looks like the London Evening News.] with the headline “Wednesday For The Cup” suggests the piccie was taken early May 1966. Sheffield Wednesday lost the FA Cup final at Wembley a few days later to Everton but of course 2 months later England won the World Cup at Wembley. Now that is what I call bringing back memories!

]]> By: Peter Metaxas https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/11/a-couple-of-pints-with-tony-hall/#comment-1324246 Wed, 11 Dec 2019 13:39:38 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178412#comment-1324246 This is such a wonderful view into the people and the pubs they frequented. Beautiful photos just superb, outstanding! The baby being held up to the window for a peek. I must like that one because we had our first grandchild a year ago.

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/11/a-couple-of-pints-with-tony-hall/#comment-1324240 Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:32:24 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178412#comment-1324240 Lovely photos.

As a non smoker…. I miss the smell of a smokey old pub… They just smell like stale beer and toilet disinfectant now!

Lovey old photos and great people..

Mark

]]>