Comments on: Ron McCormick’s Whitechapel https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/13/ron-mccormicks-whitechapel-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 Thu, 17 Dec 2020 14:55:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Phil Maxwell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/13/ron-mccormicks-whitechapel-x/#comment-1361583 Thu, 17 Dec 2020 14:55:26 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184598#comment-1361583 These are wonderful images. Thanks for publishing them. I bet drag night at the Bird Cage was interesting …..

]]> By: Desiree Michael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/13/ron-mccormicks-whitechapel-x/#comment-1361528 Wed, 16 Dec 2020 19:34:20 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184598#comment-1361528 In the photo of Brick Lane Market, there are more men than women. Wonder why.

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/13/ron-mccormicks-whitechapel-x/#comment-1361282 Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:47:14 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184598#comment-1361282 I find these images so very moving. Every one of them tells a story. Life was hard, and people so stoic.

]]> By: Colin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/13/ron-mccormicks-whitechapel-x/#comment-1361278 Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:02:23 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184598#comment-1361278 Absolutely brilliant

]]> By: Richard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/13/ron-mccormicks-whitechapel-x/#comment-1361277 Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:17:48 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184598#comment-1361277 These are great pictures. Funny how the market crowd was mainly older people then. In recent years it’s all the young. Maybe because all old tatty but more interesting stuff wasn’t there any more. Thanks

]]> By: saba https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/13/ron-mccormicks-whitechapel-x/#comment-1361253 Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:13:55 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184598#comment-1361253 Life looks so very hard, and I sense that the people are trapped. My heart goes out to them.

]]> By: Maurice https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/13/ron-mccormicks-whitechapel-x/#comment-1361185 Sun, 13 Dec 2020 21:13:57 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184598#comment-1361185 Fantastic pictures. And I’ve seen our old family doctor (Mellins) tending to a patient in Great Eastern Buildings.

]]> By: Homer Sykes https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/13/ron-mccormicks-whitechapel-x/#comment-1361175 Sun, 13 Dec 2020 20:08:25 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184598#comment-1361175 Great stuff Ron, some wonderful photographs.

]]> By: paul loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/13/ron-mccormicks-whitechapel-x/#comment-1361135 Sun, 13 Dec 2020 14:25:57 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184598#comment-1361135 At the gate to heaven, there will be a man from Brick Lane wearing a flat cap to let you in, or not.

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/13/ron-mccormicks-whitechapel-x/#comment-1361129 Sun, 13 Dec 2020 13:07:37 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184598#comment-1361129 The third photo from the top — “Old Montague Street” — is so compelling. The lady. Notice her ill-fitting coat, her hair wrapped in a strange scarf, socks drooping and doubtlessly bunched up in her shoes-that-are-not-her-shoes. She seems to be riffling her own pockets, half in confusion, partly in frustration. The bags beside her. Are they simply sacks of stuff, left at the sidewalk? Or are they her meager belongings? Or some goods she is intent on selling or swapping? The sad doorway she has selected. Just look. Scaly, crusty, worn. An ominous hole in the siding — was someone/something trying to get in, or get out? She doesn’t notice. I’m distracted by the dark shape on the sidewalk — surely not an effort to “clean up”. More likely something spilled — adding to the forlorn narrative here. Think how the photographer felt, looking through the lens at her. And now she is here.

Thank you, GA for bringing us such wonders.

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