Comments on: A Riverside Walk In the Eighties https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/09/a-riverside-walk-in-the-eighties-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 Jan 2024 09:00:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Robbie P https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/09/a-riverside-walk-in-the-eighties-i/#comment-1537886 Wed, 10 Jan 2024 09:00:54 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198655#comment-1537886 Fascinating to see the area just before redevelopment – which, on the whole, has been a good thing but I also kind of miss the creaking atmosphere of decay. Are there any non-restored Victorian era buildings in London left where that remains? Other than where it has been deliberately retained, like Wilton’s Music Hall. By the way, a small correction – the brewery To Let is Courage’s Anchor Brewhouse, unrelated to the Anchor Brewery then nearby in Park Street. To add to the confusion, they both had brewery taps called The Anchor. The Park Street brewery buildings were completely demolished I think, but both pubs are still going.

]]> By: Becky https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/09/a-riverside-walk-in-the-eighties-i/#comment-1537760 Tue, 09 Jan 2024 22:16:37 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198655#comment-1537760 Amazing photos thank you so much for sharing!

]]> By: Victoria Cooper https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/09/a-riverside-walk-in-the-eighties-i/#comment-1537729 Tue, 09 Jan 2024 18:47:31 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198655#comment-1537729 Great record of the not so long ago past. But a decade is a long time in London, let alone four of them. Makes me feel old, the eighties seem to me quite recent.

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/09/a-riverside-walk-in-the-eighties-i/#comment-1537657 Tue, 09 Jan 2024 12:21:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198655#comment-1537657 Great pics of the London I knew and loved.
A wondrous time, excluding Thatcher and her mob, to explore this lovely, dodgy place.
Before the middle classes with their ‘artisan skills’ moved in and ruined it for everybody else.
You’ll thank me one day. X

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/09/a-riverside-walk-in-the-eighties-i/#comment-1537636 Tue, 09 Jan 2024 10:26:42 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198655#comment-1537636 Very atmospheric photos. They remind me of one of my most memorable evenings which was going on a pub crawl along the Thames in Southwark just before it was all redeveloped. It was all still very Dickensian, especially around the Clink Street area.

]]> By: Greg T https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/09/a-riverside-walk-in-the-eighties-i/#comment-1537609 Tue, 09 Jan 2024 09:02:22 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198655#comment-1537609 Borough Market – before it became fashionable …
It was like stepping into the set of “My Fair Lady, except it was real.
And – not shown – Cardinal Cap Alley before the Globe or Tate Bankside.

]]> By: Richard Cleaver https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/09/a-riverside-walk-in-the-eighties-i/#comment-1537606 Tue, 09 Jan 2024 08:52:08 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198655#comment-1537606 Marvellously atmospheric. I remember walks around the dockland areas when a student at North East London Poly in Stratford in 1982/3 and marvelling at the architecture and the growing signs of decline even then. That said, the occupants of Holland St car park were clearly still doing ok thank you very much.

]]> By: Georgina Briody https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/09/a-riverside-walk-in-the-eighties-i/#comment-1537588 Tue, 09 Jan 2024 06:25:22 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198655#comment-1537588 A little different today. Growing up near Tower Bridge, leaving and returning, I saw the decline of the docks and then the regeneration of the river. I miss the aromas of the area ie the spices, the baking of biscuits twice a week..what memories.

I now enjoy my walks along the river especially Wapping.

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