Comments on: The East End In The Afternoon https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/07/29/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-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, 02 Aug 2023 09:28:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jill https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/07/29/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-i/#comment-1517103 Wed, 02 Aug 2023 09:28:35 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196489#comment-1517103 … the Victorian Overlap …it lasted long,

Lovely words, Gentle Author always manages to touch my heart and of childhood memories.
Transfixed by your words and stunning photos.
Thanks so much

]]> By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/07/29/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-i/#comment-1516693 Sat, 29 Jul 2023 12:52:03 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196489#comment-1516693 The photo of the 2 little boys playing around the old scrap car made me smile today. This is exactly the type of childhood my husband has told me of when he was a boy growing up in East Ham. He used to play on old bomb sites as well, modern day parents would probably be horrified!

]]> By: Rick Armiger https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/07/29/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-i/#comment-1516685 Sat, 29 Jul 2023 11:26:22 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196489#comment-1516685 Good to see more of these from Mr Hall.
Roman Road library is interesting and makes me wonder what books were most popular!

I helped a student with her exhibition titled ‘Initially Yours or Theirs’ nearby in Grove Road.
MaMaMummy is how she always addressed her mom – who remembers Gandhi visiting Bow.

]]> By: Stephen Watts https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/07/29/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-i/#comment-1516678 Sat, 29 Jul 2023 10:07:32 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196489#comment-1516678 Thanks for these ! I think the one directly under ‘Ridley Road Market’ (with kids preparing for or playing on a bonfire) is of waste ground just off Christian Street, with the school building behind that’s no longer there & the three tower blocks off Cable Street looming in the background. The very first photo could be one of the pedestrian streets parallel to Myrdle Street, though I’m less sure of that. Other images look tantalisingly familiar from Wapping/Whitechapel/Brick Lane

]]> By: Juliet Wood https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/07/29/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-i/#comment-1516667 Sat, 29 Jul 2023 07:08:06 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196489#comment-1516667 The characterful house* with a bay window below a tripartite window at first floor level is in Clapton Passage, which runs from the NE corner of Clapton Square to lower Clapton Road. Holly Villas (name sign just visible) is the row of houses on the N side of the Passage, and this is the first house on the left when leaving the square.
I worked on a building site in Clapton Square in the 80s, and I used to walk past this house everyday.
* third photo down from captioned Gunthorpe Street.

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/07/29/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-i/#comment-1516662 Sat, 29 Jul 2023 06:14:11 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196489#comment-1516662 They’re great.
Gone or gentrified
The London I knew and loved to visit.
Real life. Thanks for showing.

]]> By: achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/07/29/the-east-end-in-the-afternoon-i/#comment-1516659 Sat, 29 Jul 2023 05:56:56 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196489#comment-1516659 Could it be that the progressive decay still exists today, but it is just not as visible…? — And yet: wonderful photographs. Especially the children always seem to make the best of the given situation!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

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