Comments on: Old Spitalfields In Colour

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 22:47:50 +0000

It looks more like 1974. Only the odd bit of modern signage and a couple of cars prove otherwise.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 20:35:27 +0000

Ace pics.
Technicolor squaller.

By: Akkers

Akkers — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 17:43:02 +0000

Thank you Gentle Author for another great article. I loved Philip Marriages photos which took me right back to when I first started work in 1984 at Moorgate and used to go for a walk at lunchtime twice a week to Petticoat Lane / Wentworth Street Market. I had been going to the market since I was a child but only explored Brushfield Street and Artilary Passage etc when I started work.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 11:56:45 +0000

Evocative pictures. The dereliction of the area, especially The Gun with its awful façade is evidence of the lack of integrity on the part of some architects and greedy developers.

By: keithb

keithb — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 08:57:39 +0000

I’m going for around 5pm GMT or 6pm BST working from the shadows in the entrance to Christ Church in the 13th picture down Brushfield Street. The Sun looks more or less due West at that time.

Some of the earlier pictures looking down (up?) Brushfield Street were half an hour earlier I think.

Nice images.

By: Rick Armiger

Rick Armiger — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 06:50:40 +0000

1984 indeed