https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/07/10/the-alleys-of-old-london/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 10 Jul 2022 12:04:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/07/10/the-alleys-of-old-london/#comment-1470927 Sun, 10 Jul 2022 12:04:32 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192507#comment-1470927 Lovely ,brings back memories of Sundays spent wandering around the backways of London ,with my Dad ,in the 1950s.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/07/10/the-alleys-of-old-london/#comment-1470914 Sun, 10 Jul 2022 11:03:57 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192507#comment-1470914 Fascinating and comforting in equal measure, though I wish the modern wrought iron was more like the old.
Thank you Gentle Author, such beautiful illustrations from 1923, the year my mother was born.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/07/10/the-alleys-of-old-london/#comment-1470909 Sun, 10 Jul 2022 10:39:49 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192507#comment-1470909 Red Lion Passage: Now that takes me back to 1950 and my Inter BSc year at Birkbeck College, still in its old, bomb-damaged Breams Buildings premises. I was employed as a laboratory technician in Biochemistry at University College and, four nights a week, I walked (at my highest speed) from Torrington Place to Birkbeck, cutting through back streets to Red Lion Square and passing the Conway Hall. Good exercise with a briefcase full of books and good education too, because it turned me into a regular audience-member of the Conway’s Sunday evening chamber-music recitals. Happy Days! And concordant with my fondest hope and wildest imaginings, preparation for a successful career that I can now look back on from retirement.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/07/10/the-alleys-of-old-london/#comment-1470906 Sun, 10 Jul 2022 10:01:07 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192507#comment-1470906 Incredible! What a grand idea! It’s great to see the then and the now. Thank you and have a good day.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/07/10/the-alleys-of-old-london/#comment-1470902 Sun, 10 Jul 2022 09:32:26 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192507#comment-1470902 It was really heart warming to see how unchanged some pockets of London still are after all the relentless images of ‘modernisation’ we are subject to. Cheered me right up this miserable sunday.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/07/10/the-alleys-of-old-london/#comment-1470893 Sun, 10 Jul 2022 07:22:36 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192507#comment-1470893 What truly wonderful drawings showing such talent, and wonderful too that your B&W photos show these places to be still in existence!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/07/10/the-alleys-of-old-london/#comment-1470891 Sun, 10 Jul 2022 06:09:28 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192507#comment-1470891 A distant ancestor was born in Pear Tree Court in 1839; lovely to know it still exists and to see the drawing from 1923.

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