Comments on: Spitalfields In Kodachrome https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/12/spitalfields-in-kodachrome-a/ 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, 12 Apr 2020 21:41:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Bernard Cohen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/12/spitalfields-in-kodachrome-a/#comment-1335890 Sun, 12 Apr 2020 21:41:37 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180790#comment-1335890 Philip, thank you very much for replying. Sadly, my parents’ one-time flat is just out of shot to the left.

]]> By: Philip Marriage https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/12/spitalfields-in-kodachrome-a/#comment-1335884 Sun, 12 Apr 2020 18:38:26 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180790#comment-1335884 Bernard, the last but one photo showing the SOKHALS sign was taken standing on Commercial Street just before where White’s Row meets Toynbee Street. Your triangular building is still there though ‘modernised’ and is currently EYEDIOLOGY opticians. The more eagle-eyed might also spot the Gillette ghost sign above which is still visible after thirty-five years though even more faded.

]]> By: Amanda https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/12/spitalfields-in-kodachrome-a/#comment-1335879 Sun, 12 Apr 2020 17:15:01 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180790#comment-1335879 Lovely to read others recollections.

At this point in our lives l’d give anything to be back there in the 80s, with or without the debris which l didn’t ever really notice. Walked along eating a latke or two stepping over crates.

And there l was a few short weeks ago nonchalantly window shopping, happy exhanges with chatty shop assistants and not wanting to leave the buzz to return to the countryside.
So oblivious then to what was about to mysteriously creep into our atmosphere

The Commer van in Commercial Street
is my favourite nostalgic photo. l can hear its distinctive engine.

My other half and l always had an old MG for tootling and a van in those days so we could park in the West End (wardens were blind to vans then) or to weekend in Glastonbury piling in 6 pals and taking the kitchen sink. ?

The 70s and 80s were the best times for me. The best adventures, the best London neighbours and the best friends and my solution for foreign travel on a shoestring was working abroad on a visa.

These posts and their memory-jogging always switch a dull or preoccupied frequency to happiness and relaxed escapism.
Thank you to Philip M & the GA.

]]> By: Bernard Cohen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/12/spitalfields-in-kodachrome-a/#comment-1335875 Sun, 12 Apr 2020 16:23:34 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180790#comment-1335875 I would love to know where the one-but-last image in this display was taken. The first-floor flat above the “Sokhals” signboard might very well be where my parents lived until about 1929, and the second-floor flat might also be where my uncle Wolf had his furriers workshop.

]]> By: paul loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/12/spitalfields-in-kodachrome-a/#comment-1335872 Sun, 12 Apr 2020 15:28:00 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180790#comment-1335872 Thank you both for these memories of how it once was. So may stories are contained within the photos I don’t know where to start . The ladies toilet in Leyden St could be a good place. I do recall we once had public toilets that we could be proud of but they are now a distant memory. There was a gentleman’s toilet in Bishopsgate in the middle of the road opposite Ditrty Dicks that had some beautiful victorian plumbing and fixtures and fittings and an attendant that kept it clean. I think I would be willing to pay a good fee to have kept him and others in this valuable job but the powers that be, at the time, thought perhaps it was better to try and turn it into a posh restaurant. I would have told them not to waste their time.
BTW I am feeling better now with the sore throat and headache I tried steam inhalation three times and added a teaspoon of Himalayan pink salt each time. It cleared up the next day. It’s worth a try as it cannot do any harm

]]> By: Philip Marriage https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/12/spitalfields-in-kodachrome-a/#comment-1335870 Sun, 12 Apr 2020 14:55:51 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180790#comment-1335870 Brian

These photos were taken with an old Iloka 3D camera which produced an almost square tranny (23x24mm) on standard 35mm film so 48 images or 24 stereo pairs. I’m currently processing them so they can be viewed in 3D.

Philip

]]> By: Chris Webb https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/12/spitalfields-in-kodachrome-a/#comment-1335869 Sun, 12 Apr 2020 14:30:26 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180790#comment-1335869 In reply to Brian Stokoe, I have just checked Wikipedia and Kodachrome was indeed made in a wide range of formats including 120 which was used by many cameras using square format such as all Hasselblads and various Bronica and Mamiya cameras.

]]> By: Saba https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/12/spitalfields-in-kodachrome-a/#comment-1335867 Sun, 12 Apr 2020 14:04:37 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180790#comment-1335867 GA and GR, Happy Easter, Blessed Passover, and blessings to all of you of other religions or no religion.

Filthy streets, bathrooms — yes, part of life. Still, joy — if not happiness — is everything we will ever need to know about the lives we lead.

]]> By: Adele https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/12/spitalfields-in-kodachrome-a/#comment-1335865 Sun, 12 Apr 2020 13:54:06 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180790#comment-1335865 What memories! Walking to school in Spital Square every day I knew these streets like the back of my hand. My father worked in Whites Row – love seeing it again!
Stay safe everyone.

]]> By: Pamela Traves https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/04/12/spitalfields-in-kodachrome-a/#comment-1335863 Sun, 12 Apr 2020 13:44:32 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=180790#comment-1335863 I really enjoyed these colour pictures. They look so “alive”.????????

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