Comments on: Malcolm Tremain’s Spitalfields In Colour https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/01/03/malcolm-tremains-spitalfields-in-colour-o/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 03 Jan 2022 19:13:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Dave R https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/01/03/malcolm-tremains-spitalfields-in-colour-o/#comment-1446175 Mon, 03 Jan 2022 19:13:26 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190223#comment-1446175 Love these shots. Just as I first encountered the area, an atmosphere now lost and irretrievable. Particularly nice to have a photo of Sun Street (passage?) – worth looking up the entry for this alley in ‘Nairn’s London’.

]]> By: pauline taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/01/03/malcolm-tremains-spitalfields-in-colour-o/#comment-1446140 Mon, 03 Jan 2022 11:16:34 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190223#comment-1446140 Liverpool St Station always brings back memories of trips up to London, we always went ‘up’, and the noise and the smoke and the steam, but what really struck me about these photos is the litter. Why oh why do markets create so much litter, it is still much the same where I live where traders, who have stalls in the High Street, never clear up the mess that they make resulting in the entrance to our magnificent Town Hall being strewn with discarded paper and plastic. It was then, and it is now, sheer laziness by market traders and I find it disgusting. But having said that these are very evocative photos and thank you for sharing them.

]]> By: John C. Miles https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/01/03/malcolm-tremains-spitalfields-in-colour-o/#comment-1446136 Mon, 03 Jan 2022 10:48:27 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190223#comment-1446136 Wonderful, atmospheric photos – one forgets how dilapidated it all was. I lived in Bethnal Green in 1984-5 and used Old Broad Street Station to get to music lessons via the North London Line. I found the building very spooky in its decrepitude – it would have been a wonderful setting for film noir.

If only the area could have been redeveloped and renewed whilst keeping its scale and character – without the skyscrapers and glass.

]]> By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/01/03/malcolm-tremains-spitalfields-in-colour-o/#comment-1446126 Mon, 03 Jan 2022 09:41:16 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190223#comment-1446126 Interesting photos. I vaguely remember Broad St Station when I went to work in the City back in 1984 as there were a few restaurants and snack bars around the area we went to for lunch. Never really knew what the station was about or the places it served, then it was all redeveloped.

]]> By: Laura Williamson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/01/03/malcolm-tremains-spitalfields-in-colour-o/#comment-1446124 Mon, 03 Jan 2022 08:34:37 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190223#comment-1446124 Wonderful pictures. It never ceases to amaze me how many bits of workaday Victorian East London managed to survive into the 80s, despite bombing and the efforts of developers.

The Pedley St bridge scene is chilling.

]]> By: Janet M https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/01/03/malcolm-tremains-spitalfields-in-colour-o/#comment-1446102 Mon, 03 Jan 2022 02:45:49 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190223#comment-1446102 Some of the photos are quite lovely, especially “alley at Liverpool Street Station. But the area as a whole looks shabby and derelict. Now everything is shiny and soulless.

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