Comments on: Dennis Anthony’s Petticoat Lane

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 08:30:51 +0000

My mum and dad loved Petticoat Lane. Both Londoners but living in Cheam they loved the atmosphere of the market. As a a young lad I looked forward to coming up to London by train with them . Particularly being enthralled by the stallholders and their banter. The china seller adding more and more pieces to the armful he already had on offer and throwing the lot in the air and catching it. Infamous Club Row and trainspotting at wonderful Liverpool Street in the mid fifties were to be my only experience of East London until recent times. When Spitalfields Life, Fournier Street and you GA gave me a new lease of life and adventure.

By: Cherub

Cherub — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 20:42:53 +0000

I used to love Petticoat Lane, also the shops behind it. I bought the shoes and matching handbag for my registry office wedding down the Lane in 1986. Believe it or not, I spent a whole day looking for something in the West End, couldn’t find anything and was nearly in tears on the tube home. Following week I went to the Lane in my lunch break and came back triumphant with exactly what I wanted ?

By: Andy Strowman ownan

Andy Strowman ownan — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 15:31:30 +0000

These photos make my day brilliantine.

By: Achim

Achim — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 14:19:25 +0000

The feeling of life in the 50s in London’s Petticoat Lane very beautifully described. I wish one could be out and about there again…. And besides, the country has just got its new Queen!

I consider it my duty to commemorate today’s Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. — God Save the Queen!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

By: Yutman

Yutman — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 13:45:16 +0000

Can anyone confirm if the tall gent with the moustache in picture three is Hans Keller, the Austrian- Jewish art and music critic?

It looks like him — there’s a very comical interview on youtube which he conducted with Syd Barrett for the BBC ‘Look of the Week’ arts show in 1967 in which he attempts to psychoanalyse bemused, baffled band members Syd and Roger Waters.

By: Yutman

Yutman — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 13:43:13 +0000

Can anyone confirm if the tall gent with the moustache in picture three Hans Keller, the Austrian- Jewish art and music critic?

It looks like him — there’s a very comical interview on youtube in which he conducted with Syd Barrett for the BBC ‘Look of the Week’ arts show in 1967 in which he attempts to psychoanalyse bemused, baffled band members.

By: Yutman

Yutman — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 13:29:55 +0000

Look at the stylish, well-groomed, handsome man in the rolled-up sleeves in picture one, with his fine bone structure, and look at the well-dressed fellow in picture three; note his careful attention to neckerchief-cravat and shades and look at the relaxed , confident pose of the Hindu gentleman in the sunglasses at the Wadwhani stall.

Thanks for these great pictures – why don’t people wear suits like these nowadays? Compare their flash and audacious cool with the plastic kidult clothes people wear these days — I know which I prefer.

By: Paul Loften

Paul Loften — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 13:18:43 +0000

Well whoever Dennis Anthony is he certainly captured the essence of the Lane that I knew with these photos

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 13:09:51 +0000

It is sub-zero here on a Sunday morning, but thanks to these photos, I am walking the sunny aisles of this remarkable outdoor market. What a hubbub! Pointing, gesturing, cajoling, debating, gossiping, tidying, primping, smoking, corralling kids, silently watching or noisily huckstering. What a parade of humanity.

And the two ladies in the flowered frocks, choosing costume jewelry? — Look just like my dear Mom and her girlfriend Marie. With their red lipstick smiles, and sweet feminine ways —
they would make those bargain baubles look like a Queen’s ransom. Great memories.

Stay cozy, all.

By: Linda Granfield

Linda Granfield — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 13:02:06 +0000

According to this 2020 article, Dennis Anthony is 92 years old. I think the info in the article can help you locate/contact him? (Would be wonderful to see a follow-up story about him!)

https://www.thepictorial-list.com/post/london-calling