Comments on: Fran May’s Brick Lane https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/04/05/fran-mays-brick-lane/ 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, 13 Apr 2021 09:54:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Phil Maxwell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/04/05/fran-mays-brick-lane/#comment-1373877 Tue, 13 Apr 2021 09:54:22 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186209#comment-1373877 Thanks for publishing these marvellous photographs.

]]> By: john Clark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/04/05/fran-mays-brick-lane/#comment-1373021 Wed, 07 Apr 2021 06:45:57 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186209#comment-1373021 Was that John and Valerie Profumo I saw ? He was working at Toynbee Hall at that time I think.

]]> By: Aleks https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/04/05/fran-mays-brick-lane/#comment-1372952 Tue, 06 Apr 2021 10:25:51 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186209#comment-1372952 Great photos..
I started going to Brick Lane around 1988 when I was 16 ..it was still like in these photos..like a time warp in the centre of London,still lots of the old traders and full of characters from another era.
Caught it just before the developers moved in in the 90’s !

]]> By: Ron McCormick https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/04/05/fran-mays-brick-lane/#comment-1372950 Tue, 06 Apr 2021 09:30:17 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186209#comment-1372950 Well done Fran and Spitalfields Life for bringing these wonderful pictures of life around Brick Lane to a wider public. I am reminded I owe you a book and will get it sorted in the next week or so. x R

]]> By: Clive https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/04/05/fran-mays-brick-lane/#comment-1372885 Mon, 05 Apr 2021 19:06:00 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186209#comment-1372885 The sheer poverty…

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/04/05/fran-mays-brick-lane/#comment-1372858 Mon, 05 Apr 2021 13:22:59 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186209#comment-1372858 I so enjoyed the images — plus the photographer’s story of her journey really enriched the whole banquet. Stories of mentorships (in all of their shadings and variety) have always
resonated.

“We are not immune to our influences, but enriched and emboldened by them”. — a wonderful quote from design diva Linda Fargo. These words are posted on my drawing table, and I see them every day.

Thank you, GA, for always shining a light.

]]> By: Venetia https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/04/05/fran-mays-brick-lane/#comment-1372850 Mon, 05 Apr 2021 11:36:27 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186209#comment-1372850 Wonderful photographs. We came from Bristol and lived in London briefly in 1975 until I became pregnant. We later moved to Paris. How I miss street life now! These pictures are indeed a precious part of social history.

]]> By: paul loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/04/05/fran-mays-brick-lane/#comment-1372847 Mon, 05 Apr 2021 10:59:09 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186209#comment-1372847 Bill Brandt had the eyes that instantly spotted the talent. Fran’s photos have a quality that want you to keep returning to them . I don’t know why, but I felt a pang of sadness on seeing the photo of the man holding the hawk. Perhaps because it should have been soaring in the clouds rather than perched on a hand down the Lane. Thank you both for these photos

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/04/05/fran-mays-brick-lane/#comment-1372846 Mon, 05 Apr 2021 10:24:01 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186209#comment-1372846 Impressive photos. and only 2 years later (1978) I came to England and London for the first time — I make myself aware that that was “my time” too!

Somehow deeply touching to see the people of that time in their simple existence…

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Mathilde Grange https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/04/05/fran-mays-brick-lane/#comment-1372844 Mon, 05 Apr 2021 09:31:11 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186209#comment-1372844 Wonderful photos that bring time to a standstill. Thank you.

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