Comments on: The Streets Of Old London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/11/the-streets-of-old-london-i/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 27 Jun 2024 14:21:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Alison https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/11/the-streets-of-old-london-i/#comment-1584840 Thu, 27 Jun 2024 14:21:32 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195065#comment-1584840 Hi, I just wanted to thank you for past advice with regards to finding my great grandmother’s pub in Moorgate – several years on and my cousin has finally found it in 1921 census – The Grapes Tavern in Fore Street EC2 (Cripplegate) destroyed in the great fire of Cripplegate in 1897 and then rebuilt only to be destroyed in the Blitz and now part of the Barbican. Mystery solved.

]]> By: David W https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/11/the-streets-of-old-london-i/#comment-1537672 Tue, 09 Jan 2024 13:35:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195065#comment-1537672 It should be pointed out – for the avoidance of doubt – that in the photo titled “Wych St, c.1890” – Wych Street is the street to the right of the Dewars Whisky hoarding on the Rising Sun pub. The street on the left, which we can see straight down, is Holywell Street (AKA: Booksellers Row).

]]> By: Fergus Sullivan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/11/the-streets-of-old-london-i/#comment-1504242 Fri, 17 Mar 2023 06:03:21 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195065#comment-1504242 I’ve worked out the location of the chaotic traffic on Piccadilly. It’s near Green Park tube station looking eastwards in the direction of Piccadilly Circus. The striped brick turret on the right belongs to the Walsingham House Hotel, torn down along with its neighbours around 1904-5 to make way for the Ritz. All the traffic seems to be headed eastward. I wonder if Piccadilly was one-way back then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walsingham_House

]]> By: boudica Fawkesredd https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/11/the-streets-of-old-london-i/#comment-1503867 Sun, 12 Mar 2023 13:43:18 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195065#comment-1503867 Welcome back as once again we can read your great works on you’re site great pics of a bygone era

]]> By: Ann Cornish https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/11/the-streets-of-old-london-i/#comment-1503852 Sat, 11 Mar 2023 21:14:34 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195065#comment-1503852 I just LOVE these old photographs…thank you

]]> By: Wendy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/11/the-streets-of-old-london-i/#comment-1503837 Sat, 11 Mar 2023 18:24:57 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195065#comment-1503837 I can’t resist finding all these streets on Google Streetview now to see today’s versions.

]]> By: Robin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/11/the-streets-of-old-london-i/#comment-1503828 Sat, 11 Mar 2023 16:07:31 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195065#comment-1503828 Pure magic…seeing into the past through these old photographs

]]> By: Christine Swan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/11/the-streets-of-old-london-i/#comment-1503819 Sat, 11 Mar 2023 14:03:14 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195065#comment-1503819 I love walking around streets where historic buildings remain and trying to imagine what it would have been like in the time when they were relatively new. It’s quite depressing when old, but serviceable, buildings are demolished to make way for glass, concrete and steel faceless lumps. Thankfully, where I now live, they have realised that the historic buildings still have a role to play in our beautiful city. In fact, I’ve just photographed some buildings over 450 years old, still in use as shops, cafes and restaurants on my walk home. There are different pressures in London sadly but hopefully the voices of resistance will prevail and good sense triumph

]]> By: parktown https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/11/the-streets-of-old-london-i/#comment-1503817 Sat, 11 Mar 2023 13:36:02 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195065#comment-1503817 …a couple more Light Reflectors to add to my collection, thanks ?

]]> By: Susan Locke https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/03/11/the-streets-of-old-london-i/#comment-1503814 Sat, 11 Mar 2023 11:59:34 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195065#comment-1503814 Love these old photographs. Having London cab men and bin men in my family in those days I wonder if any of them are frozen in these pictures

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