Comments on: Charles Chusseau-Flaviens, Photographer

By: Rod

Rod — Mon, 10 May 2021 18:05:33 +0000

Many thanks gentle author for these wonderful photographs. I was just wondering if anyone can read the number on the collar of the policeman standing outside of JAYS. I have just written a book, currently with my publishers, about the police in the Victorian era and I would love to find out who this officer is. I believe that it should start with a D, as D division patrolled Oxford Street and Regent Street.

By: Saba

Saba — Sun, 09 May 2021 19:03:13 +0000

A man’s world, indeed. I understand more about the creativity and bravery of the suffragettes.

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 09 May 2021 17:16:32 +0000

Great pictures..thanks you Jane Yetter
GPS

By: paul loften

paul loften — Sun, 09 May 2021 16:05:16 +0000

What a great variety of headgear on display. The flat cap stall must have been a shrine for the working class lads. My vote goes to the roadsweeper with his finely perched cap “Up yours mate”

By: Kelly Holman

Kelly Holman — Sun, 09 May 2021 11:33:42 +0000

What wonderful photographs, thank you. The suffragette picture is particularly striking and lead me on to read more of Sir Rufus Isaacs and his actions with regard to the suffragettes as Attorney General at the time. I love how each day brings new things to research as a result of reading your pieces.

Hear Hear John Daltrey. Very well said.

By: James Keltz

James Keltz — Sun, 09 May 2021 10:28:00 +0000

No matter how wonderful those pictures I can’t help wondering how many of those men would soon die in that stupid war that is just around the corner

By: Bernie

Bernie — Sun, 09 May 2021 10:02:18 +0000

Two thoughts: 1. My father (b. 1896) could have been a youngster amidst the crowd along Petticoat Lane; he lived nearby. 2. In response to Caroline Murray: the dearth of females is surely not too surprising. In my family, for example, my mother would have been preparing the Sunday lunch and my sister might have been helping her.

By: Stephen Watts

Stephen Watts — Sun, 09 May 2021 09:56:20 +0000

Might the third & fifth images down (of the main photographs), with clusters of men in bowler hats & caps, be of Brick Lane looking north towards Truman’s Brewery ? The plaque address on a facing wall might pinpoint where it was (& could probably be read if enlarged). Many thanks for showing us all these very interesting images of a gone past

By: Caroline Murray

Caroline Murray — Sun, 09 May 2021 09:34:59 +0000

Striking how very few women are present in these photographs – except of course for the valiant suffragette!

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sun, 09 May 2021 09:15:21 +0000

Fascinating photographs of a world that would have been familiar to my grandparents. Sobering too, considering the world and life-shattering events that were to follow in the years to come. How it would have changed the lives especially of the youngsters playing on the street corner and those innocently enjoying the sailing boats on the pond..