Comments on: Derek Brook’s East End

By: Andy Strowman

Andy Strowman — Mon, 05 May 2025 21:50:15 +0000

A great lot of photos

By: David Wootton

David Wootton — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 23:41:13 +0000

I first started work in the mid 1960’s in the East End. My whole memory of this time is in black and white just like the photos . There were a lot of people living in poverty, bomb sites still existed and a general run down state of the area. What was amazing was the spirit of the folk who lived there, they had little but were always smiling. The lovely old buildings that were worth preserving have gone. Developers have no sympathy for the area, many of them hide behind off shore companies. Hopefully the dreaded Covid will have curtailed their plans.

By: Eric Forward

Eric Forward — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:47:35 +0000

Incredible photographs. A couple of Whitechapel and Mile End are barely changed in some ways, other areas completely unrecognisable.

By: Christy S.

Christy S. — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 22:34:42 +0000

These photos cast a spell. A hush, sometimes formal, and very nice.

By: Di Corry

Di Corry — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 16:40:27 +0000

Whitechapel as I remember it back in the day, love those prams!
Images of Brick Lane and Mile End that look so familiar…….yet so far away now.
Great photographs, thank you for sharing them.

By: Cherub

Cherub — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 14:32:52 +0000

I wonder what happened to the 4 schoolboys walking past Paget’s café? They look so well turned out and smart in their uniforms.

By: Phil Maxwell

Phil Maxwell — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 14:06:35 +0000

Thanks for publishing these wonderful images of the East End from the 1960s. Whitechapel market is a lot busier now!

By: Bernie

Bernie — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 13:34:43 +0000

Beans on toast! Sometimes!!

By: Linda Granfield

Linda Granfield — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 13:30:22 +0000

These photos remind me that, yes, there was a time when women wore dresses/skirts and stockings–on every outing. So many legs on view!

And I wonder how anyone slept in the rooms above The Railway Tavern. Looks as though one could reach out the window and touch the train cars! Scrreeeeeech!

By: Tom French

Tom French — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 13:00:07 +0000

I love these photos, some of which remind me of the time I lived in Stepney. I particularly like the one of the Savlvation Army’s Victoria Home for Men, especially as it included a shot of the school I attended – Davenant Foundation. I was a pupil there in the 1950’s and although it relocated to Buckhurst Hill in 1966, it was probably still functioning as a boys school when this photo was taken.