Comments on: David Johnson’s East End

By: Kerry Nethercott

Kerry Nethercott — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 16:40:38 +0000

Geo Tallett Fishmongers was my family’s shop. My childhood was spent there, along the Broadway market and in and out of the Sir Walter Scott pub! So many stories about that place.

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 08:51:37 +0000

Evocative images

By: David Johnson

David Johnson — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 12:34:20 +0000

Thanks for all the kind comments.
I will be gradually adding more photos from this period to my Flickr album https://www.flickr.com/photos/squeezyboy6/albums/72177720300644791

By: Tracey

Tracey — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 05:02:26 +0000

Beautiful.

By: Lew Tassell

Lew Tassell — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 00:22:08 +0000

Superb set of photographs that are so evocative for me. I knew Liverpool Street Station like the back of my hand in those days and the photographs have captured it brilliantly. Artillery Lane / Artillery Passage before it was gentrified, the Percy Dalton peanut advertisement which I had totally forgotten about. Also The London Hospital as it was and before it got its “Royal” title and where I met my wife to be when she was studying as a Student Nurse their.

By: John Campbell

John Campbell — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 19:46:05 +0000

Wonderful pictures, hope there are more to come.Thank you David.

By: John Cunningham

John Cunningham — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 19:13:51 +0000

What superb photos. They capture an era that to someone of my age(67) seems like yesterday. But it could be another world, indeed. The yellow Ford Cortina in one pic struck a chord. I had one just like that. I spent a few months in 1984 working at my then employers head office in Holborn Bars. I had the occasional wander around the nearby East end. It seemed desperate and at the end of its tether. As an now occasional visitor to Spitalfields, gentryfycation or not, it seems a much better place than it was in 1984. I always head first for the Brick Lane Bookshop, followed by a couple of pints at the Ten Bells. Heaven on my London. Trips.

By: Bart

Bart — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 16:11:21 +0000

Wonderfully evocative and giving the dirty details the credit they deserve. Where can we see more of David’s work?

By: Cherub

Cherub — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 14:30:59 +0000

The photo of the view from Wapping pier head to Tower Bridge is beautiful.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 13:36:25 +0000

Fab pics. The London I remember as a regular user of Liverpool Street 1977-82. It was ramshackle but I loved it. Spent the whole night there after a Who/Stranglers/AC DC/Nils Loftgren concert at Wembley Stadium in 1979. My Mini got nicked in the multi-story. It was summer but spent a freezing night with 3 friends on the concourse waiting for the first Sunday train to Cambridge. Nothing open and a porter loading a train with Sunday rags wouldn’t even give me one to “read”. Car turned up 2 weeks later in Cricklewood. Nicked my tapes but left the clothes in the boot, we had been shopping for in Carnaby St. Blummin joy riders. I loved the old smoke!