Comments on: In Old Globetown

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 10:09:01 +0000

Wonderful images, though sorry to know the Chippie has gone. Promise to self for an explore around this area WHEN I’m able to revisit.

By: Peter Holford

Peter Holford — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 21:01:59 +0000

It’s good to see that the Bishop Bonner is still standing. It was my grandad’s pub in 1924, the year after his divorce. My dad, who was 10 at the time, remembered it as very run down and that the part of it that he called the ‘music hall room’ was derelict with pigeons nesting in it. The following year they moved to the Forresters Arms (the Corner Pin) on Homerton High Street. They were both Taylor Walker pubs as was the one in Hackney where they lived during the First World War. That was the Palmerston Arms which is now Well Street Pizza. Sadly the Corner Pin has been demolished.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 16:34:52 +0000

Super pics of lovely houses and streets.
Beautiful day to take some snaps!

By: John C. Miles

John C. Miles — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 13:44:25 +0000

Thank you for a lovely article and photos, GA. I lived in Victoria Park Square in the mid 1980s and these streets were my local haunts. My housemates – some of whom were medical students at the London Chest – and I quickly became experts on all the nearby pubs and curry houses. I still stop by the Florists’ Arms whenever I’m in the area – which, sadly, isn’t often these days!

By: Michelle G.

Michelle G. — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 13:10:40 +0000

Lovely wintery sideways light and great compositions in these shots. The architecture in Cyprus Street is especially striking. And pockets of places to grow greenery are still going strong. Thanks for this wander through the streets of Old Globetown.

By: Robert Kearney

Robert Kearney — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 11:07:29 +0000

Interesting, as my late parents were born (1913 & 1915, both living to 99) and grew up in that area and told me many stories of their life there. One of which my mother told me was that after the first world war, most streets in the area had memorials on the walls, often wooden with small apex roofs above them to those from their streets who lost their lives in that conflict. So it was so nice to see the photo of that immaculately preserved one which obviously receives the regular commemoration those who lost their lives deserve.

By: Joan Johnson

Joan Johnson — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 10:58:43 +0000

A wonderful collection of photographs. Thank you.

By: John Venes

John Venes — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 10:40:27 +0000

Thank you GA. Brought back memories of walking through BG Gardens to school at Parmiter’s in Approach road. It is hard to believe that little area is in the heart of the East End. Lovely.
Also, good to see those 2 great little pubs are still going, unlike so many turned into flats.

By: James Harris

James Harris — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:33:30 +0000

Isn’t it Mendip Houses rather than ‘dwellings’? My great grandparents lived there and I have a picture of my dad as a baby in the arms of my great grandfather stood in that stairwell in the picture. I recognised the stairs as soon as I saw them.

By: Di Corry

Di Corry — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:15:57 +0000

A walk down memory lane for me this morning …..reminding me of happy days around those streets. Thank you GA.