Comments on: Dragan Novakovic’s Brick Lane https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/08/01/dragan-novakovics-brick-lane-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 Fri, 28 Aug 2020 15:12:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: David Wootton https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/08/01/dragan-novakovics-brick-lane-x/#comment-1350490 Fri, 28 Aug 2020 15:12:27 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182806#comment-1350490 Lived for a while in London during the late 1960’s. Had forgotten just how much poverty there was then. Amazing how cheerful a lot of the folk were then even though many of them had sad lives.

]]> By: David Green https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/08/01/dragan-novakovics-brick-lane-x/#comment-1348558 Wed, 05 Aug 2020 18:22:12 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182806#comment-1348558 God, they all look so desperate and miserable.

]]> By: James Burke https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/08/01/dragan-novakovics-brick-lane-x/#comment-1348498 Wed, 05 Aug 2020 10:19:46 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182806#comment-1348498 Great photos – I remember going there with my Uncle Dennis in the early seventies. The corrugated iron and odd buildings which had survived the Blitz. I once saw a bloke take his shirt off and sell it for the price of a drink!

]]> By: Bailey Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/08/01/dragan-novakovics-brick-lane-x/#comment-1347972 Sun, 02 Aug 2020 09:34:19 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182806#comment-1347972 I like these photos very much. They are realistic without ever being grim. The photographer’s warmth towards his subject matter is very apparent.

]]> By: Phil Maxwell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/08/01/dragan-novakovics-brick-lane-x/#comment-1347968 Sun, 02 Aug 2020 09:19:00 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182806#comment-1347968 These photographs are just incredible. A magnificent record where the personalities around the market at that time jump out at you. I wish I could go back to that time just for one Sunday!

]]> By: sprite https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/08/01/dragan-novakovics-brick-lane-x/#comment-1347964 Sun, 02 Aug 2020 08:52:27 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182806#comment-1347964 the best I’ve seen of Brick Lane, it captures the spirit of ‘then’ perfectly.

]]> By: Ian Silverton https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/08/01/dragan-novakovics-brick-lane-x/#comment-1347949 Sun, 02 Aug 2020 07:48:33 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182806#comment-1347949 Said it before on this site many time I know, but these pictures of the East End from the early 70s still shock me, of how poor the people of the East End where at this time, I left about 1965 for pastures new having been born there in 1944, looking at these made the correct choice they say never look back, and have never been back for years now somehow don’t think I ever will. Stay safe UK.

]]> By: Di Corry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/08/01/dragan-novakovics-brick-lane-x/#comment-1347843 Sat, 01 Aug 2020 20:40:34 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182806#comment-1347843 A trip down memory (and Brick) Lane for me…..These images capture everything I remember about that place and those times. Thank you Dragan …..these are wonderful photographs.

]]> By: Pamela Traves https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/08/01/dragan-novakovics-brick-lane-x/#comment-1347832 Sat, 01 Aug 2020 19:36:40 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182806#comment-1347832 These are Wonderful Pictures of the People looking at the things to buy. I really enjoyed so much.???????

]]> By: Linda Granfield https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/08/01/dragan-novakovics-brick-lane-x/#comment-1347787 Sat, 01 Aug 2020 14:30:19 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182806#comment-1347787 LOVE the “Be Your Own Optometrist” photograph.

Just keep trying those glasses on until you can see better!

Splendid captures of a time and place. Flat caps everywhere!
Thanks!

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