Comments on: John Claridge’s Other World https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/07/17/john-claridges-other-world-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 Sun, 17 Jul 2022 19:45:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Sigrid https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/07/17/john-claridges-other-world-x/#comment-1471713 Sun, 17 Jul 2022 19:45:36 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192530#comment-1471713 A friend and I always called the watchtower “Baba Yaga”, from Pictures of An Exhibition , me knowing it from Emerson , Lake and Palmer, he from Mussorgsky. 🙂

]]> By: Anthony Finerty https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/07/17/john-claridges-other-world-x/#comment-1471690 Sun, 17 Jul 2022 15:29:56 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192530#comment-1471690 WATCHTOWER looks like the border between East and West Berlin!

]]> By: Linda Granfield https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/07/17/john-claridges-other-world-x/#comment-1471672 Sun, 17 Jul 2022 10:32:12 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192530#comment-1471672 Stunning.
My grandmother grew up near a gasometer. Canon Rd/Bromley, long ago.
I’ve always wondered what gasometer sounds were part of her daily life.
Were there clanking sounds or did it quietly inflate?

]]> By: achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/07/17/john-claridges-other-world-x/#comment-1471666 Sun, 17 Jul 2022 09:32:30 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192530#comment-1471666 Fascinating!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/07/17/john-claridges-other-world-x/#comment-1471661 Sun, 17 Jul 2022 08:00:52 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192530#comment-1471661 What a selection.
They all have so much going on in them.
INTO THE NIGHT is so good it brings a tear to my eye, but then again I always had a thing about Gas Holders. Just Wow.

]]> By: Greg T https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/07/17/john-claridges-other-world-x/#comment-1471660 Sun, 17 Jul 2022 07:51:00 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192530#comment-1471660 “Whitechapel Bell Foundry”
Quite.
Is there nothing that can be done, now, except to hope that the “boutique hotel” collapses financially?

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