Comments on: Philip Cunningham’s East End Shopfronts

By: Julian Grenier

Julian Grenier — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 18:53:24 +0000

Could ‘unknown location 1976’ be the corner of Cyprus St and Cyprus Place where an old shop has been converted to a red-shuttered house?

By: David Green

David Green — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:35:12 +0000

As someone who did a lot of streetscape photography in the 1980s, with a 4×5 view camera, with an emphasis on small shops, how the owners decorated their windows, and vernacular architecture, I just love seeing these photos. I lost 30 years of negatives in a fire 10 years ago so it’s lovely to know these images have been scanned and can be seen.

By: Mary Green

Mary Green — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 15:28:54 +0000

I love these old photos of shopfronts. I live in hope of spotting one of my family’s dairies, or indeed any Welsh dairy. But particularly my grandfather’s in Mape Street, long gone under Weavers Fields.

By: Eric Forward

Eric Forward — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 13:33:02 +0000

Incredible set of photographs, of places I just about recognise, even after having walked past some of them hundreds of times. Many readers will not appreciate the changes that have taken place in what is still a relatively short period of time. Anyone else like a now & then post?

By: John Campbell

John Campbell — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 19:51:46 +0000

Great images. Would like to see a ‘then and now’ featuring all these places.

By: Pamela Traves

Pamela Traves — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:18:09 +0000

Sad Old Shops from the Past. Wonderful Memories. Thank You So Much.????

By: Paul Woodley

Paul Woodley — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:15:11 +0000

Fascinating pics, thanks to the GA for posting and Philip Cunningham for taking them.

It’s really interesting to use Google Street View to check out the ones that are still there.

The 109 through 113 Mile End Road buildings now have the shops removed and are restored to their previous splendour.

Similarly the two buildings named as Malplaquet House are also restored and with the shops gone, the part on the left has had the entire missing top floor replaced.

The ‘Motor Insurance’ place identified as on Mile End Road is actually on White Horse Lane, it’s no longer there but the building to the left of it ‘Westminster Textiles’ still stands and looks very spiffy now.

Really wish I’d taken pics of the area when living at the junction of Commercial Street and Folgate Street in the early ’80s and again at the end of the ’90s but sadly didn’t.

And thanks to Chris Miles for the link to the Tate pictures by Nigel Henderson.

By: Kay Parrish

Kay Parrish — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 13:49:18 +0000

The advertising signs are fabulous.

By: Jan Marriott

Jan Marriott — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 13:38:04 +0000

What a sad post. I spent the early part of my life with my relatives at 29 Pownall road, also when I first went to work in London in 1960. Many memories of trotting to the Hagerston Baths on a Friday night with my bag of Yardley bath salts and talcum powder.
Do you ever come across photos of Pownal road?
Jan

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 11:25:40 +0000

What amazing images, and so evocative of my own growing up in post-war London, albeit long before 1979!