Comments on: Sights Of Wonderful London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/11/17/sights-of-wonderful-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 Mon, 20 Nov 2023 09:19:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Mark Byfield https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/11/17/sights-of-wonderful-london-i/#comment-1528437 Mon, 20 Nov 2023 09:19:57 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198120#comment-1528437 Absolutely fantastic! what lovely old photographs that tell a story.

Thank you

Mark

]]> By: Heather Cole https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/11/17/sights-of-wonderful-london-i/#comment-1528150 Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:48:00 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198120#comment-1528150 Even at the monuments (amazing), the impression is of soil and decrepitude, but we know that colored and enlivened these scenes would breathe life. So grateful for Wonderful London and everything it has to teach us.

]]> By: Sonia Murray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/11/17/sights-of-wonderful-london-i/#comment-1528144 Fri, 17 Nov 2023 14:40:16 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198120#comment-1528144 Thanks for these glimpses of the world our great-grandparents knew, GA. So many people were struggling, back then, as now.

The aerial shot of London is wonderful.

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/11/17/sights-of-wonderful-london-i/#comment-1528134 Fri, 17 Nov 2023 12:46:45 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198120#comment-1528134 This glorious array of photos represents YOUR exalted history, so as an American I will side-step that amazing legacy. (and am sure that other readers will rightfully comment)
However, this morning I am smiling to think that EVERY Hollywood art department must have had well-worn, often-consulted copies of “Wonderful London” on their shelves. I imagine designers in these departments squinting at the endless details, and then ordering up painted
backdrops. “Let’s have a sea side view!” “Give me a winding back alley!” “Let’s see a fog-draped
Saint Paul’s here, OK?”. I look forward to another screening of “Green Dolphin Street”, and have no doubt that the settings were inspired by these volumes of wonderful London.
Wonderful, indeed! See you at the movies.

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/11/17/sights-of-wonderful-london-i/#comment-1528128 Fri, 17 Nov 2023 11:43:58 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198120#comment-1528128 Superb.
Oh to chat up one of those beauties (pic 2) in the cloche hats from the typing pool. Take me back to the 20’s now!

]]> By: Lizebeth https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/11/17/sights-of-wonderful-london-i/#comment-1528106 Fri, 17 Nov 2023 07:29:35 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198120#comment-1528106 What wonderful images of an old, dirty, tired, but beautiful London. Now we have a cleaner one, but it is losing its soul — the next thing to die will be Liverpool Street Station, if we, the residents of this great city, do not save it.

Thank you for letting us see these glimpses of the past, we always try and picture ourselves there.

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