Comments on: On Night Patrol With Constable Tassell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/08/29/on-night-patrol-with-constable-tassell/ 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, 30 Aug 2023 12:06:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Michael Babcock https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/08/29/on-night-patrol-with-constable-tassell/#comment-1520084 Wed, 30 Aug 2023 12:06:07 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196730#comment-1520084 Checking in from Boston, Massachusetts, and with the street names you caption the photos with, I plotted (roughly) the course in Google Maps.

https://goo.gl/maps/d35ff2CfKGeiApzM8

I find this an interesting way to understand where the photos were taken, and the course, if only approximately since several captions indicate views at intersections. If I had a little more time, perhaps later, I’ll see if it’s possible to “walk” the route using Street View. I left Embankment off the route since that seems to have been a random shot. Perhaps the constable did loop south and west again, but the route would be impossible to plot.

Particularly interesting, as a printer, would be Bouverie and Fleet Streets, though neither would remain vital or unchanged as they would have been in 1972 when the news was on paper.

mjb

]]> By: Gilbert O’Brien https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/08/29/on-night-patrol-with-constable-tassell/#comment-1519969 Tue, 29 Aug 2023 08:41:36 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196730#comment-1519969 I get a bit more nostalgic for the London Lew Tassell photographed, those dim quiet streets of the late 60s/early 70s when I was also exploring the very same places, even occasionally popping into Mick’s Cafe for egg and chips, a middle class teenager who was as much a sore thumb as Lew Tassell might have been. Is he still alive?

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