Comments on: The Ghosts Of Old London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/28/the-ghosts-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 Tue, 30 Mar 2021 18:25:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Jane https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/28/the-ghosts-of-old-london-x/#comment-1372220 Tue, 30 Mar 2021 18:25:35 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184708#comment-1372220 Thankyou GA, I am thrilled to bits with these pictures as my Nanna was born in Drury Lane in 1873, and you’ve given me a glimpse of her childhood world. She is now one of your ghosts and given her due respect.

]]> By: Tracey Shearing https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/28/the-ghosts-of-old-london-x/#comment-1363631 Thu, 07 Jan 2021 18:47:40 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184708#comment-1363631 Isn’t The Old Bell still there? Or a pub of that name in Holborn

]]> By: Pamela Traves https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/28/the-ghosts-of-old-london-x/#comment-1362825 Tue, 29 Dec 2020 22:26:11 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184708#comment-1362825 Wonderful Vintage Pictures!! I have Enjoyed them Very Much!!????????

]]> By: Teresa https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/28/the-ghosts-of-old-london-x/#comment-1362785 Tue, 29 Dec 2020 02:10:11 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184708#comment-1362785 Such wonderful photos…thanks for sharing. I’m in Canada, so can’t even visit modern London, let alone go to the archives that hold the older photos. Online photo archives (and those who highlight their holdings) are a huge boon to me.

My maternal ancestors lived throughout London, from Bethnal Green, to Islington, from St Giles to Battersea, Tooting, and Wandsworth. London for me is definitely a haunted city and I hope at some time to visit it again.

]]> By: gkbowood https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/28/the-ghosts-of-old-london-x/#comment-1362760 Mon, 28 Dec 2020 18:43:56 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184708#comment-1362760 Where are all the people?! At a time when London was teeming with people, additionally, most these photos are eerily void of the ever present carts and horses. Did the photographer ask them to keep out of the photos so he could just get the buildings? They are an excellent record of the sheer grubbiness of some of the buildings. These are real treasures.

]]> By: Lizebeth https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/28/the-ghosts-of-old-london-x/#comment-1362752 Mon, 28 Dec 2020 16:44:33 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184708#comment-1362752 I echo the sentiments of an earlier person: I, too, have learned so much this year from your wonderful posts. The old photos are, for me, the best things, as they show me a London I would have loved to wander through — now, sadly, more and more of these neighbourhoods are being destroyed in the name of “progress”. Thank you so much for sharing, and for your wonderful writing.

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/28/the-ghosts-of-old-london-x/#comment-1362743 Mon, 28 Dec 2020 14:37:38 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184708#comment-1362743 “Study the details of their world”……..Gladly.

The intricacy of this series is almost mind-numbing, and makes my pulse race a bit. OK, I’m ready to explore. I pull up my chair, loop a hand around my fresh mug of coffee — and I travel down lanes, duck into doorways, try to keep my footing on extreme cobbles, squint into the sunlight as I study an upper window, inspect the oddball array at Chaplin & Co, listen intently to hushed conversations in a passageway, and scoot out of the way of a passing wagon. Of course after all that exploration, I’ll need to refresh myself at the pub.

See you there.

]]> By: paul loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/28/the-ghosts-of-old-london-x/#comment-1362739 Mon, 28 Dec 2020 12:59:55 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184708#comment-1362739 Thank you for the wonderful photos of the ghosts of old London. They will one day come to haunt us for what we are turning it into.
By the way, where can I get my hair brushed by steam power charge?

]]> By: Richard Smith https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/28/the-ghosts-of-old-london-x/#comment-1362732 Mon, 28 Dec 2020 11:36:26 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184708#comment-1362732 Absolutely fascinating GA, I enjoyed playing find the ‘ghosts’ and reveled in the detail of the buildings. Thank you for bringing the past back to life.

]]> By: Gregg https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/12/28/the-ghosts-of-old-london-x/#comment-1362731 Mon, 28 Dec 2020 11:10:52 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=184708#comment-1362731 Wonderful set of photos as usual. Thanks to the photographers & to you. 2 things jump out. Since we are roughly in the era of Jack the Ripper usually photos associated with London at this time show teeming masses in what was allegedly the largest city on earth at the time & yet in these photos there are just a few people. It makes you think that Jack the Ripper photos are cherry picked to enhance the story. The other is regarding image 19 of Borough High St. which shows a shop owned by ‘Chaplin’. The location is about 1 mile from the birthplace of Charlie Chaplin born approx. 12 years after the photo was taken. It is not beyond the realms of possibility that the shop was owned by a relation of Charlie’s. Great photos. Thanks.

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