Comments on: The Nights Of Old London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/11/29/the-nights-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, 30 Nov 2023 20:58:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Sue https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/11/29/the-nights-of-old-london-i/#comment-1529848 Thu, 30 Nov 2023 20:58:35 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=197867#comment-1529848 Ann I think it is Selfridges in the 30s.

]]> By: Ann https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/11/29/the-nights-of-old-london-i/#comment-1529749 Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:15:50 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=197867#comment-1529749 Absolutely beautiful pictures.
Could anyone tell me about the building with the banners and statues in the 5th shot? I wonder what was happening there that night.

]]> By: Christine Swan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/11/29/the-nights-of-old-london-i/#comment-1529745 Thu, 30 Nov 2023 08:48:14 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=197867#comment-1529745 What wonderful images, especially that of St Paul’s dome with the searchlight, I presume, reflected in the fog. I have some similar views taken using my smartphone camera. London in the cold and fog. It is irresistible to capture. Incredible that these have survived and appear so similar to today.

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/11/29/the-nights-of-old-london-i/#comment-1529622 Wed, 29 Nov 2023 13:00:40 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=197867#comment-1529622 I am enthralled with all of these. But I was especially taken with the photo of streams of people viewing holiday windows. At first I thought…….”hardly a person appears in any of these photos”, making them seem ghostly and solitary. And then I spotted the jolly flocked holiday tree in the large store window……and then noticed the groups of people, gathering and (probably) exclaiming. Since holiday window decor is a yearly source of inspiration (since childhood!)
I felt so connected to this photo. I imagined a young person, their mittened hand held tightly by a parent, staring up into the displays and feeling that surge of excitement and destiny. These early stirrings of the creative spirit are the beginnings of the “inevitability” of art. (Robert Henri, I think?) Sometimes the spark comes from something grand and exalted, and sometimes it comes from the glittered world of a decorated window.

Thank you for this glorious array of images — and the invented stories they sparked.

]]> By: vanessa williamson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/11/29/the-nights-of-old-london-i/#comment-1529596 Wed, 29 Nov 2023 07:29:12 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=197867#comment-1529596 Love your atmospheric descriptions of London!

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