Comments on: The Forgotten Corners Of Old London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/11/14/the-forgotten-corners-of-old-london-a/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 14 Nov 2022 23:26:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/11/14/the-forgotten-corners-of-old-london-a/#comment-1491404 Mon, 14 Nov 2022 23:26:08 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193739#comment-1491404 I wonder what happened to that creepy looking waxwork of Charles II? Perhaps it’s in a creepy looking gothic house somewhere!

]]> By: gkbowood https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/11/14/the-forgotten-corners-of-old-london-a/#comment-1491388 Mon, 14 Nov 2022 20:00:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193739#comment-1491388 That bucket in St Pauls has water in it, perhaps? You can just see a reflection in the surface.

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/11/14/the-forgotten-corners-of-old-london-a/#comment-1491368 Mon, 14 Nov 2022 14:10:37 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193739#comment-1491368 GA, you always take us the BEST places. Sometimes those places are exalted and elevated, and sometimes we all get a bit scruffy as we walk down those “back streets”. Either way, the journey is always illuminating.

I grew up in an American city replete with alleys. Actually, my hometown of Pittsburgh has officially declared that such byways are now called “ways”. (another example of how a formerly-gritty city has become, ahem, more refined. Give me the former version.) In childhood, one could wander and explore our local alleys; away from observant adult eyes. This was where real life, in all its messiness, was visible. Garages full of mysterious and wonderful junk, still lifes of brooms/clothes pins/laundry lines and flower pots of wilting-but-hopeful geraniums. Aprons hung on hooks. Umbrellas and galoshes, at the ready. The utilitarian things of life, necessary
to every household, but out of public view. Divine imperfection. Long live alleys!

]]> By: Claire Jamoulle https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/11/14/the-forgotten-corners-of-old-london-a/#comment-1491354 Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:48:27 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193739#comment-1491354 Are the photos from a personal collection or displayed in a museum or elsewhere, belonging to the public?

]]> By: Vicki Heneker https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/11/14/the-forgotten-corners-of-old-london-a/#comment-1491353 Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:32:12 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193739#comment-1491353 What absolutely incredible and amazing photographs. Thank you so much, means a lot to me, my genealogy coming from these areas of London

Kind regards
Vicki from South Australia

]]> By: Bernie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/11/14/the-forgotten-corners-of-old-london-a/#comment-1491342 Mon, 14 Nov 2022 09:52:19 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193739#comment-1491342 Of course one wants to know what of the imaged structures can still be seen today?

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/11/14/the-forgotten-corners-of-old-london-a/#comment-1491336 Mon, 14 Nov 2022 09:11:00 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=193739#comment-1491336 Absolutely fascinating images above. Thank you Gentle Author. Makes me immediately want to follow your same route and see them all first hand.
So there’s always been graffiti? (I know ‘cos I worked as a volunteer on a graffiti project for English Heritage at Richmond North Yorkshire Castle’s cellblock, whose walls are covered in graffiti from the First World War; then subsequently attended a conference on Graffiti at Winchester Univ a while back)
And obviously rubbish too, ‘cos that’s one big pile from London Zoo in 1910!

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