Comments on: Charles W. Cushman’s London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/23/charles-w-cushmans-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 Wed, 24 Jan 2024 00:35:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/23/charles-w-cushmans-london-i/#comment-1541167 Wed, 24 Jan 2024 00:35:40 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198709#comment-1541167 These are lovely. The man in Leicester Square is busking on the day I was born.

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/23/charles-w-cushmans-london-i/#comment-1541140 Tue, 23 Jan 2024 21:12:11 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198709#comment-1541140 Wonderful images, and the London I grew up in!

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/23/charles-w-cushmans-london-i/#comment-1541061 Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:17:20 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198709#comment-1541061 Did someone say “nineteen sixty-one”?
Just looking at those frothy pastel-hued crinolines, wafting in the breeze, made me recall
semi-formal dresses of yore, dyed-to-match heels, little decorative evening purses, and white
gloves. Mists of hairspray, discreet daubs of Estee Lauder perfume behind each year, tiny
pearl earrings — and off we go.
The doldrums of that grey cloudy day at the marketplace must have been swept away by those colorful poufs of netting, and the thoughts of magical evenings twirling on the dance floor.
Yes, all of that……….in one photograph. And more.

Thank you, GA.

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/23/charles-w-cushmans-london-i/#comment-1541046 Tue, 23 Jan 2024 12:54:16 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198709#comment-1541046 Excellent. I love Cushman’s images.
Totally de-luxe.

]]> By: achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/23/charles-w-cushmans-london-i/#comment-1541021 Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:51:04 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198709#comment-1541021 What a wonderful time report! I love these KODACHROMES because they remind me of the fantastic pictures in “THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE” from the 1950s. These once inspired me to take my own trips to England and Scotland from 1978 onwards. I repeated the “Stroll to John O’Groats” by author Isobel Wylie Hutchison, which was described in an article from July 1956. — That’s how I got to know and love Great Britain and its people!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Christine Swan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/23/charles-w-cushmans-london-i/#comment-1540976 Tue, 23 Jan 2024 08:24:53 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198709#comment-1540976 These photographs are fascinating to me because they depict places that I visit frequently, and have been doing so, for many years. “My” St Giles, before I was christened there, surrounded by flowers ( on bomb sites I believe my parents told me). How different it is now! Petticoat Lane is similar but without the numerous white vans, Covent Garden sans Chanel et Ladurée. I’m so pleased that people had the foresight to take photos of everyday life for us all to enjoy sixty years later.

]]> By: Judith Baxter https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/01/23/charles-w-cushmans-london-i/#comment-1540959 Tue, 23 Jan 2024 07:18:42 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198709#comment-1540959 Thank you for sharing and taking me back so many years with these photographs

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