Comments on: Andrew Scott’s East End

By: Keith

Keith — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 11:27:37 +0000

To see Corfield Street like it was back in the 1970s is a treat, as my dad, lived there as a lad with his dad in the early 1950s. My maternal grandmother live in Finnis Street with her parents and sisters from 1909 to 1926 and went to Wilmot Street school, as did my mum and her siblings. There were prefabs near the old railway arches too. I remeber the prefabs off of Valence Road in the mid 1970s too. The photographs of the cobbled roads and streets, empty boarded up flats and terraced houses, and roads without cars is and amazing sight too.

By: Maureen

Maureen — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 20:52:01 +0000

Superb photography. It’s hard to believe it’s actually not that long ago.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 12:24:05 +0000

If you think these photos are upsetting come and have a look at the estate where I live in 2022. These pictures show many splendid people and buildings. At least the folk had hope in the Seventies, what now in this septic Isle…..

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 09:55:39 +0000

Enjoyed looking at these. Strange to realise it was like this. Some good faces.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 14:18:42 +0000

Vivid and beautiful portraits of working class life and buildings. Always good to see Tubby Isaacs in east end photos!

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 11:55:36 +0000

Photos like these are so RICH in detail, every viewer will zero in on a different aspect.
I immediately noticed the two young girls running along the pavement, draping themselves in
discarded pieces of ghost-like plastic. The boarded-up building across the way has a sense of
isolation and doom. The moment belongs to the girls — and the photographer. I imagine their laughter, girlish shrieks, giggles, as they approach the camera. Their private playtime is captured on film. We’re reminded of the specialty of children — to invent, appropriate, and transform. The discarded plastic looks like clouds of pastel tulle, as the girls skip past the signage on the van —- “Homeless.” Were these two friends for life, or just for an afternoon?
Wonderful photos.

By: Cherub

Cherub — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 09:49:01 +0000

I wonder what some of these streets look like now? The dereliction shown here in the 70s is upsetting to look at.

By: Joan

Joan — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 08:06:20 +0000

As I was 11 and growing up in the tower block looking over Bromley Street in 1974 these photos feel very familiar to me. Interestingly the posh estate agents Inigo have recently had one of the Bromley Street houses for sale for £850,000. Their website is good on history but doesn’t mention that period in the 1970s when the houses were squatted and – in 1977 – proved something of a focus for anti Silver Jubilee sentiment.

By: Andu

Andu — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 05:48:32 +0000

Photos truly evocative for me. Thank you both.
Andy