Comments on: Lewis Lupton In Spitalfields https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/05/lewis-lupton-in-spitalfields-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 Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:04:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Lorna Shires https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/05/lewis-lupton-in-spitalfields-o/#comment-1962405 Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:04:21 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190568#comment-1962405 My dad spent every Saturday night for 5 years volunteering in ‘the crypt’ sleeping there and befriending the men during the early 1970s. He grew up in Lamb St and my mum in Quaker : we were living in Chingford.

]]> By: Bob https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/05/lewis-lupton-in-spitalfields-o/#comment-1448833 Mon, 07 Feb 2022 09:05:12 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190568#comment-1448833 Everything has changed since 1968. And yet nothing has. Superficially its all mended and shiny. If you take out the human element. The next time I go in Christ Church I shall light a candle to say thank you that it is still there.

]]> By: Saba https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/05/lewis-lupton-in-spitalfields-o/#comment-1448738 Sun, 06 Feb 2022 03:18:30 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190568#comment-1448738 The man feeding the birds has such a sweet face. I feel like I know him.

]]> By: Sarah Johnson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/05/lewis-lupton-in-spitalfields-o/#comment-1448724 Sat, 05 Feb 2022 19:40:28 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190568#comment-1448724 How have things changed since the spring of 1968? Gentrification must have crept in here too … those are wonderful sketches of Hawksmoor’s masterpieces.

]]> By: Sigrid https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/05/lewis-lupton-in-spitalfields-o/#comment-1448722 Sat, 05 Feb 2022 18:10:30 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190568#comment-1448722 The crypt was run in those days by Church Army Captain Ronnie Rourke and Sister Janet Rourke, husband and wife, with many volunteers from all walks of life. They lived in a flat over Spitalfield market and brought up their two young boys in the area.

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/05/lewis-lupton-in-spitalfields-o/#comment-1448714 Sat, 05 Feb 2022 15:32:47 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190568#comment-1448714 Wonderful drawings which say so much

]]> By: Jennifer Newbold https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/05/lewis-lupton-in-spitalfields-o/#comment-1448711 Sat, 05 Feb 2022 14:42:22 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190568#comment-1448711 Such evocative drawings, and a testament to compassion and dignity, finding the noble in places that others disregard.

I read in the news this morning about a private plane you can charter for an assignation, and clubs where you need NFTs to be admitted. We keep devising methods of keeping ‘other people’ out, rather than embracing the idea that all of humankind is created equal.

Our priorities today are shamefully misdirected.

]]> By: Jessica https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/05/lewis-lupton-in-spitalfields-o/#comment-1448710 Sat, 05 Feb 2022 14:15:51 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190568#comment-1448710 Thank you – I truly love reading about the East End of London. It has been a mysterious place to me since I first discovered it in 1992 while completing research for my dissertation.

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/05/lewis-lupton-in-spitalfields-o/#comment-1448708 Sat, 05 Feb 2022 13:26:01 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190568#comment-1448708 Brilliant drawings.
I’m in that night club with Keith Moon!

]]> By: Peter Hart https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/05/lewis-lupton-in-spitalfields-o/#comment-1448699 Sat, 05 Feb 2022 07:15:44 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190568#comment-1448699 A wonderful walk and great drawings Thank you GA.

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