Comments on: John Claridge’s East End Shops https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/25/john-claridges-east-end-shops-x/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 27 Apr 2022 17:58:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/25/john-claridges-east-end-shops-x/#comment-1458647 Wed, 27 Apr 2022 17:58:39 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191481#comment-1458647 Amazing images

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/25/john-claridges-east-end-shops-x/#comment-1458404 Mon, 25 Apr 2022 16:44:53 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191481#comment-1458404 The Muhammed Ali of photography.
Genius. Thanks.

]]> By: Jo N https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/25/john-claridges-east-end-shops-x/#comment-1458389 Mon, 25 Apr 2022 12:12:01 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191481#comment-1458389 Wonderful pictures of the kind of shops I remember in the north in the ’70s. Wolff is a Jewish name, incidentally, it’s in my husband’s family who fled Alsace, so it’s feasible he really was Jacques Wolff!

]]> By: Bernie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/25/john-claridges-east-end-shops-x/#comment-1458386 Mon, 25 Apr 2022 11:51:50 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191481#comment-1458386 Wernick’s is just the sort of butchery where my aunt from Wilkes St shopped. But by the time these photos were taken she and her children had moved northwards to Hendon. Would they have gone without the impetus provided by the Luftwaffe? I am not so sure; there was a tight community hereabouts until the blitz and it might well have persisted much longer.

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/25/john-claridges-east-end-shops-x/#comment-1458384 Mon, 25 Apr 2022 11:30:03 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191481#comment-1458384 The photos of John Claridge are unmistakable. True grit.
This wonderful series could have been “stills” from some of the greatest British New Wave films that I adore……”Saturday Night and Sunday Morning”, “Darling”, “L-shaped Room”, etc.
The photos (and the films) have a similar push/pull. Contradictions. Grim but cozy. Desolate and inviting. Provincial but universal.
Cue the John Dankworth soundtrack.
And thank you, GA.

]]> By: Maureen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/25/john-claridges-east-end-shops-x/#comment-1458370 Mon, 25 Apr 2022 08:29:11 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191481#comment-1458370 Fabulous article as always. It is interesting that these shops already look very old. What a different age.

]]> By: Mathilde Grange https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/25/john-claridges-east-end-shops-x/#comment-1458368 Mon, 25 Apr 2022 08:09:38 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191481#comment-1458368 Very moving pictures, thank you, dear G.A.

]]> By: achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/25/john-claridges-east-end-shops-x/#comment-1458365 Mon, 25 Apr 2022 07:36:41 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191481#comment-1458365 Beautiful pictures from a bygone era. — Sometimes you wish you could go back to these small traditional, homely shops. They glow with something more comforting than these modern, sterile glass palaces…

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Andy Strowman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/04/25/john-claridges-east-end-shops-x/#comment-1458356 Mon, 25 Apr 2022 05:52:30 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=191481#comment-1458356 The nunber one thing I miss is the clarity.
The locality comes next.
Old people would wave you away fromba football match to give you the exact money to go to these kind of shops.

I miss some of the trust the shopkeepers gave me.
There does not appear that thing anymore.

Maybe, once in a while in Sainsburys where a few know me.

Rest in peace Harry.

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