https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/11/23/in-old-spitalfields-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 Tue, 24 Nov 2020 21:56:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/11/23/in-old-spitalfields-x/#comment-1358813 Tue, 24 Nov 2020 21:56:05 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184284#comment-1358813 Wonderfully evocative

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/11/23/in-old-spitalfields-x/#comment-1358636 Tue, 24 Nov 2020 00:34:43 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184284#comment-1358636 Such Beautiful Vintage Paintings of Old London. I Love Them Very Much!! ThankYou!!????????

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/11/23/in-old-spitalfields-x/#comment-1358606 Mon, 23 Nov 2020 19:02:59 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184284#comment-1358606 I’ve intently studied each of these. Although birn in America I have a deep deep connection to England that is difficult to understand. I am 3/4 English, 1/4 German…but my feelings go further than blood make-up. If there are past lives I imagine that’s the root of it for me.
So- these paintings bring such familiar comfort, and tears quite frankly. For what I have lost in a subsequent lifetime and for what London has lost in the most recent last two centuries. I recognize the current changes over the years I’ve gone- from 1983 to 2016.
Is progress really the way? In a world being taken over by faceless coorporations-we too have become faceless…almost meaningless… unless our hard earned cash is involved. Then we are elevated to importance- for just a brief moment…just enough for the exchange. Afterwards we slip back into the cracks. Into and away from the tangible experience. Screen and keyboard as our connection to last visions and present divisions.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/11/23/in-old-spitalfields-x/#comment-1358604 Mon, 23 Nov 2020 16:18:50 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184284#comment-1358604 Thank-you for sharing these charming watercolours which show a more pleasant and human-scaled world which I fear is gradually being lost. Beautifully crafted architecture with adjacent spaces!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/11/23/in-old-spitalfields-x/#comment-1358572 Mon, 23 Nov 2020 08:40:55 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184284#comment-1358572 Thank you for sharing these wonderful photo’s of Old Spitalfields. I love old photo’s especially of old cities which are now modernized and lose their character altogether.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/11/23/in-old-spitalfields-x/#comment-1358566 Mon, 23 Nov 2020 07:23:19 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184284#comment-1358566 Spooky – I was just about to write exactly what Lynne McBarron has said – charming paintings, and what on earth was that weird obelisk in the final image??

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/11/23/in-old-spitalfields-x/#comment-1358564 Mon, 23 Nov 2020 07:05:27 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184284#comment-1358564 Fantastic images..
I especially love the one of Paul Pindars lodge .. with no other buildings either side …
Also the last image showing the curious tower on stilts.. I wonder what that was ?
Really lovely to see them all .
Thank you Gentle Author

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