Comments on: Lew Tassell’s Day Trip https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/10/lew-tassells-london-trip/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 02 Oct 2021 11:28:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Marie Nicholson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/10/lew-tassells-london-trip/#comment-1415785 Sat, 02 Oct 2021 11:28:59 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185451#comment-1415785 Relishing the memories brought back and loving your photographs. I lost all my pictures in a move from Maida Vale to Chalk Farm which at the time didn’t seem to be the tragedy it does today, so yours are doubly welcome. I have recollections of a Lawrence Corner somewhere around Leicester Square. Correct? I remember spending hours in there. Leicester Square was a favourite place of mine in the 50’s (before the swinging sixties) when it was all about trad. jazz, Denmark Street and Foyles, lunch at the Greek Cafe off Charing Cross Road run by Uncle Sol and then a Matinee at the cinema before jazz-clubbing that night (no alcohol allowed then).

]]> By: Sandra Johnstone https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/10/lew-tassells-london-trip/#comment-1381016 Thu, 27 May 2021 15:49:54 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185451#comment-1381016 Great pics. I was a Mod in swinging 60s. Saw all the great bands of the day from Beatles, Blues, Tamla to Stones. Worked at music publishers, met many stars. Carnaby Street has been stripped to just another boring collection of shops now, all atmosphere of the sixties is gone, plus the Kings Road full of mini skirts!
In 1983 I got my dream job, working for HandMade Films, George Harrison’s film company, a lovely man who died too young… in fact I was living in New York when John Lennon was assassinated…another sad time. Youngsters today will never realise how great our music and fashion was all over the world. Great times. Today just boring in comparison.

]]> By: Chris Butler https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/10/lew-tassells-london-trip/#comment-1367824 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 12:15:31 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185451#comment-1367824 Fabulous thanks for sharing

]]> By: Robert Murdoch https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/10/lew-tassells-london-trip/#comment-1367811 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 10:02:41 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185451#comment-1367811 Great, and very atmospheric, pictures that capture the time so well!! I remember Carnaby Street that way – I used to spend the Easter holidays between 1967 and 1970 with my Aunt (she lived in Willesden) and spent a lot of time exploring. Carnaby Street was a favourite as was the Apple shop on Baker Street. Well done.

]]> By: Ros https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/10/lew-tassells-london-trip/#comment-1367771 Wed, 10 Feb 2021 23:10:18 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185451#comment-1367771 These are wonderful and interesting for several different reasons, both the quality in the use of black and white – I think the top photo is beautiful and dramatic and the use of the angle it’s taken from is terrific. The two men sitting on a bench near the Tower of London taken through railings is also beautifully graded, as is the one above it. Then there are all the details that form such a lively historical record, like the ones of Carnaby and surrounding streets. You can enter them and re-live that life! You’ve featured Lew several times before and I hope he has more to reveal and you’ll do so again.

]]> By: Bailey Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/10/lew-tassells-london-trip/#comment-1367761 Wed, 10 Feb 2021 20:55:21 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185451#comment-1367761 These photos give a great sense of swinging London from the perspective of a 15 year old lad.

The photo of the hospital under construction is amazing. On a phone, it looked at first like a cloud behind the other buildings but as I enlarged it, with my finger and thumb, the iron girders were revealed.

I hadn’t realised Canadian Pacific had a London office – or is it just an ad! Either way, I am now humming this delightfully kitsh 60s tune: https://youtu.be/vQBE4DwSrsk

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/10/lew-tassells-london-trip/#comment-1367756 Wed, 10 Feb 2021 20:43:16 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185451#comment-1367756 Fab photos and my era, so took me straight back; even the sentiments about the cost of film.
I went on an Easter school trip to Paris in 1964 when I was a 5th former. My father lent me his Brownie 127 camera, but as I could only afford one film, I had to make every one of those 8 frames count; one of the Eiffel Tower, one of Sacre Coeur etc… My dad was so impressed with my results, that he let me keep the camera. I now have an all singing, all dancing digital wide-angle zoom lens, but my little Brownie 127 is still with me, kept safe in a drawer!

]]> By: Johnny Campbell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/10/lew-tassells-london-trip/#comment-1367750 Wed, 10 Feb 2021 19:08:06 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185451#comment-1367750 Important pics- particularly the Carnaby st shops. Great stuff!

]]> By: Barbara Rose https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/10/lew-tassells-london-trip/#comment-1367738 Wed, 10 Feb 2021 16:59:46 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185451#comment-1367738 Such lovely photographs bringing back many happy memories. I was 14 in 1966 and can still remember the vibrant atmosphere that Carnaby Street had. When I tell people that there was traffic in Carnaby Street, they look at me perhaps with some disbelief! Well done Lew Tassell!

]]> By: Bernie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/02/10/lew-tassells-london-trip/#comment-1367737 Wed, 10 Feb 2021 16:54:46 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=185451#comment-1367737 Yes, London as I recall it around the time I moved away. But sadly, I now find that beneath the glitter it looks mostly rather seedy and dishevelled. Is it any better today? I doubt it!

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