Comments on: The Streets Of Old London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/18/the-streets-of-old-london-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 Thu, 19 Dec 2019 05:47:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Pamela Traves https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/18/the-streets-of-old-london-x/#comment-1325185 Thu, 19 Dec 2019 05:47:57 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178549#comment-1325185 What Wonderful Vintage Pictures!! I Love them So Much!!????????

]]> By: Eric Forward https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/18/the-streets-of-old-london-x/#comment-1325144 Wed, 18 Dec 2019 22:38:21 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178549#comment-1325144 Despite living here I’m still amazed by London. Leaving soon so maybe that is the reason I haven’t taken it for granted. Yes, it’s sad to see some history lost and that must still be fought for, but a lot of the change is for the positive (except the oversupply of £1m apartments – that I cannot forgive). First came 30 years ago and have lived here the last ~14. Looking at these photos visitor’s minds must have been blown away by the metropolis, as I can imagine most other UK cities & towns would have been so underdeveloped in comparison. London, what an amazing city.

]]> By: Richard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/18/the-streets-of-old-london-x/#comment-1325140 Wed, 18 Dec 2019 21:41:00 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178549#comment-1325140 Wych street in name seems to have disappeared. Looks like an interesting corner of London. Anyone know where it was. How much more teeming London was then. More people crammed into central London I guess. I’m going to Eyre St hill.

]]> By: Jane Hill https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/18/the-streets-of-old-london-x/#comment-1325118 Wed, 18 Dec 2019 16:40:48 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178549#comment-1325118 The amount of signage and billboards always takes me by surprise. I think it was the CPRE and Clough Williams-Ellis of ‘England and the Octopus’ fame who campaigned to prevent what we now think of as American – style billboards lining the new trunk roads romping through the country in the 1930s. The wonderful Highgate photograph picturing ‘hovels’ titled ‘Strand Yard ….’ is actually Townsend Yard, named after the builder (and demolisher) standing in the picture demonstrating how out of kilter the dwellings are.

]]> By: Adrienne https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/18/the-streets-of-old-london-x/#comment-1325098 Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:18:11 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178549#comment-1325098 Gosh! The traffic in Cheapside…

]]> By: Adele https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/18/the-streets-of-old-london-x/#comment-1325094 Wed, 18 Dec 2019 14:59:43 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178549#comment-1325094 Amazing photos of a London landscape now lost.

]]> By: Pamela Bough https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/18/the-streets-of-old-london-x/#comment-1325091 Wed, 18 Dec 2019 13:57:20 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178549#comment-1325091 Regent Street, 1900 I am surprised the road surface is still dirt and not cobbles. OR was it cobbles covered with sawdust to keep the noise down. Could the Gentle Author please find out – so interesting to note the slight fashion changes over the 20 to 30 years that these pictures show. I miss the beautiful places in London.
From Canada, Pam

]]> By: Peter Holford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/18/the-streets-of-old-london-x/#comment-1325090 Wed, 18 Dec 2019 13:32:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178549#comment-1325090 Interesting to see how scruffy Kensington and Knigtsbridge were! I dimly remember a part of Knightsbridge within spitting distance of Harrod’s as being a red light district with the Pakenham pub as the place where military personnel from the Hyde Park barracks frequented. My aunt and uncle were the licensees; but not for long. They soon moved! That was about 1957.

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/18/the-streets-of-old-london-x/#comment-1325088 Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:50:23 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178549#comment-1325088 “Maybe I have spent too much time looking at photographs of old London…….”. Wait.
If YOU aren’t looking, that means WE aren’t looking. Today’s posting thrilled me to my bones. Starting with the top image, I heard the hubbub, the clip-clop, the “H’re ya there, Guv’ nor……”, the call of the merchants and news agents, the raucous laughter of children on the pavement. I heard it ALL, because of your dedication to these photos and these enduring images. I’ve given up having “favorites” among your many posts, but this one was in my Top Ten.

When I look at these incredible street scenes and notable structures, I am aghast at the “hotel” design you showed us earlier this week. Really? Soul-less, forgettable, disposable architecture, be gone! Let’s all jump in the time machine.

Keep at it, GA.

]]> By: Richard Pascoe https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/12/18/the-streets-of-old-london-x/#comment-1325084 Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:37:07 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178549#comment-1325084 Could not agree more , Wonderful , Wonderful , Photographs . Thank you and well done to you !
Richard.

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