Comments on: The Lantern Slides Of Old London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/12/11/the-lantern-slides-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 Sat, 11 Dec 2021 23:18:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Helen H https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/12/11/the-lantern-slides-of-old-london-x/#comment-1440814 Sat, 11 Dec 2021 23:18:54 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189921#comment-1440814 Thank you for sharing these wonderful images, which accompany those in the “Album”, which I have, and which I can thoroughly recommend! I worked on a project for some years at our local library, to digitize an archive of historical images of our town, on glass plate slides. It was utterly fascinating and it really brought home how much has changed over the last 130 years or so. We decided to copy them warts and all, with cracks and breaks, smudges, marks, and their original tonal colours intact. We too, just didn’t it was right to disturb the patina of history.

]]> By: Lizebeth https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/12/11/the-lantern-slides-of-old-london-x/#comment-1440798 Sat, 11 Dec 2021 20:42:45 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189921#comment-1440798 What amazing photographs. Do you know if the “Hair Cutting Saloons” were over what are now called Prince Henry’s Rooms? These seem to be closed to the public, and have been for some time now. I would love to find out how to get in and see them.

Thank you once again for sharing these magical visions of a London past.

]]> By: Laura Williamson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/12/11/the-lantern-slides-of-old-london-x/#comment-1440794 Sat, 11 Dec 2021 20:14:52 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189921#comment-1440794 Utterly fascinating. it is the people who make it so for me; the two men at St Johns Gate, one in uniform-what were they talking about? The little lad peering round a drainpipe at the Dick Whittington-what happened to him? Captured instants in lives.

Thank you GA. These pictures make them live still.

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/12/11/the-lantern-slides-of-old-london-x/#comment-1440783 Sat, 11 Dec 2021 19:20:44 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189921#comment-1440783 What fabulous images. My siblings and I spent much of our 1950s childhood visiting the Natural History Museum, but don’t ever remember seeing the crocodiles. Just as well, because I’d have probably been scared witless by those jaws

]]> By: Boudicca Fawkes https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/12/11/the-lantern-slides-of-old-london-x/#comment-1440767 Sat, 11 Dec 2021 10:21:42 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189921#comment-1440767 Great pics and story we lyke to wish everyone in London a very happy Christmas and a happy new year

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/12/11/the-lantern-slides-of-old-london-x/#comment-1440766 Sat, 11 Dec 2021 10:13:07 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189921#comment-1440766 Very pretty photos. I like the firemen best, who don’t want to be denied their tea ceremony. But that’s what you expect from “us” English — as a Royalist, I would count myself among them!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Peter Hart https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/12/11/the-lantern-slides-of-old-london-x/#comment-1440764 Sat, 11 Dec 2021 07:17:05 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=189921#comment-1440764 Lovely old photos thank you for posting GA

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