Comments on: Fran May’s Brick Lane https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/05/10/fran-mays-brick-lane-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 Wed, 10 May 2023 16:58:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Eva Radford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/05/10/fran-mays-brick-lane-i/#comment-1509105 Wed, 10 May 2023 16:58:39 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195672#comment-1509105 These are powerful and compelling images. People seem to be still recovering from the ravages of the war. Fran May is a brilliant photographer and these photos are great.

]]> By: Christine Swan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/05/10/fran-mays-brick-lane-i/#comment-1509097 Wed, 10 May 2023 15:30:58 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195672#comment-1509097 My late father used to chuckle when I told him what Brick Lane was like more recently. He remembered the Brick Lane from these photographs ( well earlier actually because we had moved away before these were taken). “Really?”, he would say, “Toffs in Brick Lane! Who’d have thought it? Well I never!” I can hear him now. Thanks Fran and the GA.

]]> By: Pauline Taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/05/10/fran-mays-brick-lane-i/#comment-1509084 Wed, 10 May 2023 11:54:39 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195672#comment-1509084 I think the late great Nigel Henderson who taught me photography would have said the same as Bill Brandt and thank you for keeping these images and sharing them but what an appalling picture they paint of the disgusting litter that some people left wherever they went.

]]> By: Paul Loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/05/10/fran-mays-brick-lane-i/#comment-1509079 Wed, 10 May 2023 11:01:23 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195672#comment-1509079 How right Bill was about not losing these photos . As someone who grew up with memories of visits to Brick Lane on a Sunday morning from a small child with my dad in the 50’s through to the 70’s I have memories that match the photos. The beating heart of raw London

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/05/10/fran-mays-brick-lane-i/#comment-1509076 Wed, 10 May 2023 10:13:01 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195672#comment-1509076 “Never lose these images.”

Indeed. And never lose the stories behind them. I am so enriched by these images, and knowing about the photographer’s personal journey.

Many thanks, GA.

]]> By: Homer Sykes https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/05/10/fran-mays-brick-lane-i/#comment-1509068 Wed, 10 May 2023 08:21:45 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=195672#comment-1509068 Some lovely work Fran.

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