Comments on: Joanna Moore’s Spitalfields

By: Valerie

Valerie — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 09:55:00 +0000

I should like to echo Bob Gladding’s suggestion of a book of her drawings (with backstories as with this set of drawings today). We all need a bit of awe in our lives & secret places, magical survivor buildings, nooks & grannies, with tales to tell, give it.

I listened in awe this morning to radio 4’s The Reunion with similar wonder, awe & appreciation as 5 Maids of Honour recalled their roles at what was surely the last uber-pomp, uber ceremonial, coronation likely to be staged in England. It gave me insight into how such an occasion like that must have been experienced after half a century of wars, depression & profound change. And I pondered too…on what might follow the humbling of humanity in the new ‘age of coronavirus’ we now must wade through on the way to….whatever…to equal such a nationally uplifting event.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 09:35:17 +0000

Magical survivors in superb drawings. For me, this is one of your *exceptional* postings. When were these drawings made? I wonder. Magic…

By: Sue

Sue — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 21:32:32 +0000

Wonderful drawings and stories.

By: Nurjahan Julie Begum

Nurjahan Julie Begum — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 19:39:30 +0000

I have been living in Pedley Street for nearly 30 years so it’s great to read stories about the area that I haven’t heard before with these beautiful illustrations.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 18:39:14 +0000

What lovely, evocative drawings! They remind me a bit of Geoffrey Fletcher, who did such wonderful drawings of London’s overlooked places in the second half of the 20th C.

By: Penny Gardner

Penny Gardner — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:23:35 +0000

Perspective is a wonderful thing.

By: Sarah B Guest Perry

Sarah B Guest Perry — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 12:01:26 +0000

Delightful, both the pictures and the stories.

By: Bob Gladding

Bob Gladding — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 10:28:32 +0000

Dear GA please consider publishing a Spitalfields Life book of Joanna’s wonderful drawings of the East End. They are gems.

By: Pauline Taylor

Pauline Taylor — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 09:31:05 +0000

These are delightful drawings which really capture the timeless qualities of the scenes depicted. Thank you Joanna and GA for sharing them, and the history surrounding them, with us.

By: Steve Hanscomb

Steve Hanscomb — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 08:59:23 +0000

I enjoyed looking at these lovely drawings and reading the pieces about them, miles from my ordinary place of work.
Somehow, these drawings of an earlier London make the places into cherished, protected places, that no developer would dare approach. It’s easy to forget looking at beautiful works as these how delicate and endangered such places are now.