Comments on: Geoff Perrior’s Spitalfields https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/09/geoff-perriors-spitalfields/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:59:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Robert Hardy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/09/geoff-perriors-spitalfields/#comment-1368581 Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:59:08 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178967#comment-1368581 This is amazing! Geoff was the best man at my mum and dad’s wedding. I spent a lot of my childhood around Geoff and Betty. Lovely memories. I’m not 100% certain, but I think my mum took that picture of Geoff holding his light meter, the photo was taken at Alan Bell’s garden party.

]]> By: Pamela Traves https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/09/geoff-perriors-spitalfields/#comment-1326813 Fri, 10 Jan 2020 10:41:37 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178967#comment-1326813 Amazing Sad Pictures not that old, as I am 64. They never go away, as many building s start to fall as new ones rise up. That is History renewing each years.???????

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/09/geoff-perriors-spitalfields/#comment-1326804 Fri, 10 Jan 2020 08:50:39 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178967#comment-1326804 The is another set of photographs that makes me wonder what the smells would have been…
old fruit and rotten cabbages…the everlasting bonfire…the underlying sickly smell of the malt from the brewery…and the men too would no doubt have been a touch odiferous.

]]> By: Eric Forward https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/09/geoff-perriors-spitalfields/#comment-1326786 Thu, 09 Jan 2020 21:46:52 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178967#comment-1326786 I have 2 takeaways from looking at these photos (1) there is something magnetic about the area, it does seem to draw people (2) how much the area has also changed. Brushfield Street in particular is largely unrecognisable, except for the odd detail in the background that still remains to this day. Thanks for the photos Geoff, RIP.

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/09/geoff-perriors-spitalfields/#comment-1326764 Thu, 09 Jan 2020 14:26:03 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178967#comment-1326764 A very impressive Report, indeed. And a unbelievable fact about the permanent fire!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: paul loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/09/geoff-perriors-spitalfields/#comment-1326757 Thu, 09 Jan 2020 12:31:35 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178967#comment-1326757 Haunting photos of what it was really like in the 70s . Geoff Perrior, they really dont make people like this any more. Manager at WH Smith at Liverpool Street for thirty years, and he would not take any photos as it was private property. I recall the station in the 70s, as I had to pass through it on my way to work for years. The old worn staircase leading up to the ornate Victorian metal scroll bridge where the station office was. Smokey, overcrowded everything old and dirty . There must have been a wealth of material there to photograph as well as the local streets and who would have known ? Geoff’s principles were written on his face.
Thank you, Geoff, Betty and the Gentle Author for bringing this to us

]]> By: Richard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/09/geoff-perriors-spitalfields/#comment-1326753 Thu, 09 Jan 2020 11:14:35 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=178967#comment-1326753 I remember that fire but never had the nerve to speak to those around it. The photos just show how the area and London is changed. Thanks.

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