Comments on: Nights Of Old London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/09/30/nights-of-old-london-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 Sun, 01 Nov 2020 19:02:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: John B https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/09/30/nights-of-old-london-x/#comment-1356197 Sun, 01 Nov 2020 19:02:31 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=183637#comment-1356197 Sooo atmospheric

]]> By: Eddie H https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/09/30/nights-of-old-london-x/#comment-1354326 Sun, 04 Oct 2020 18:05:52 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=183637#comment-1354326 Brilliant set of pictures, thanks for sharing

]]> By: Linda Kincaid https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/09/30/nights-of-old-london-x/#comment-1354114 Fri, 02 Oct 2020 19:27:51 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=183637#comment-1354114 Beautiful writing and pictures. Made me feel quite emotional.

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/09/30/nights-of-old-london-x/#comment-1353961 Wed, 30 Sep 2020 20:40:09 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=183637#comment-1353961 And I just have to add one of my favorite poems…

COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE

Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! The very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!

William Wordsworth: Poems, in Two Volumes: Sonnet 14

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/09/30/nights-of-old-london-x/#comment-1353960 Wed, 30 Sep 2020 20:35:18 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=183637#comment-1353960 Greetings from Boston,

GA, I am late in opening my email today. I agree with all responders above about how beautiful your prose is and how evocative these photos are for all who love London.

Peace…

]]> By: Christine https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/09/30/nights-of-old-london-x/#comment-1353959 Wed, 30 Sep 2020 20:27:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=183637#comment-1353959 I do love your words and those wonderful old photos. My memories of London are from the late fifties and early sixties, yes fog, wet streets and that nighttime loneliness. Christine

]]> By: Sonia Murray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/09/30/nights-of-old-london-x/#comment-1353956 Wed, 30 Sep 2020 19:18:42 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=183637#comment-1353956 “… Meanwhile, across the empty city, Londoners slumber and dream while footsteps of lonely policemen on the beat echo in the dark deserted streets…”

Gloriously written, GA. Thank you for this beautiful and evocative portrait of the rain washed city as it used to be at night. I only wish my grandmother were alive to see these pictures of her world.

All the best, and stay safe,
Sonia

]]> By: Lizebeth https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/09/30/nights-of-old-london-x/#comment-1353948 Wed, 30 Sep 2020 18:12:34 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=183637#comment-1353948 Fantastic photos — thank you so much. Most of these are on my doorstep. Let’s hope the greed and lack of ethics and aesthetics today don’t remove or ruin any more of these magical places. It gets harder and harder to stop the juggernaut of “progress”… The best time to walk around London is when it seems empty, although it never really is.

]]> By: Akkers https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/09/30/nights-of-old-london-x/#comment-1353942 Wed, 30 Sep 2020 17:02:57 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=183637#comment-1353942 I love these old photos. Thanks for sharing them with us.

]]> By: Alexandra Rook https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/09/30/nights-of-old-london-x/#comment-1353938 Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:35:51 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=183637#comment-1353938 Welcome back, I’ve missed your prose. If only Piccadilly could be returned to
such a human scale; perhaps it will post-pandemic. It certainly has been as empty.
And London was full of smoke-darkened buildings and really was always raining.

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