Comments on: Lew Tassell’s Day Trip https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/02/21/lew-tassells-day-trip-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 Fri, 23 Feb 2024 18:57:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Lorraine Whebell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/02/21/lew-tassells-day-trip-i/#comment-1551177 Fri, 23 Feb 2024 18:57:04 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198977#comment-1551177 ]]> Wonderful evocative photos 📸

]]> By: Christine Swan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/02/21/lew-tassells-day-trip-i/#comment-1550296 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:42:18 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198977#comment-1550296 I loved these photographs – thank you Lew and the GA. My earliest memories are of being taken “up West” to the January sales with Mum. Later on, I ventured on my own as a teenager in the 1970s, also via Charing Cross, once my family had moved to Kent. Sadly, I didn’t take any photographs.
I remember Carnaby Street as the place for flowing, Indian cotton dresses in floral, wood-block prints. A visit to Oxford Street was incomplete without spending at least an hour in TopShop. The opening of the an early central London branch of McDonald’s was an exciting event but culminated in a burnt mouth from an unexpectedly white-hot apple pie!
I was told to avoid Piccadilly Circus as a bad place to hang about – especially around the Eros statue. I never pursued why but wondered why Lilywhites was located in such a reportedly dreadful area!
Happy, carefree days!

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/02/21/lew-tassells-day-trip-i/#comment-1550273 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 15:05:50 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198977#comment-1550273 Wonderful! So many flashes of recognition here, even for someone on “this” side of the pond.
I totally resonated to the memory of waiting eagerly for film to be developed. Somehow that seems like a lifetime ago. (guess it was………) And as a 60s-era art/fashion student, the mention of Carnaby Street set off a series of color-soaked psychedelic memories. (I really need to screen
“Blow up” again!? ) Nope, fashionable boutiques were not in my budget — but that did not stop me from buying some yellow/red/black paisley print fabric and making my own bell bottoms. Poor boy sweaters. Black pseudo-alligator vinyl raincoat with a hood. (one of our gang found these for five bucks at a discount store and we ALL wore them) Plastic earrings, all a-dangle.

Loved seeing the Union Jack ablaze everywhere — even in black and white it
is such a beautiful iconic image. Long may it wave.

Many thanks, GA. “Talkin’ ’bout my gen-er-a-tion………..”.

]]> By: achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/02/21/lew-tassells-day-trip-i/#comment-1550234 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 12:12:50 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198977#comment-1550234 The City of London, as you get to know it enthusiastically as a tourist on your first visit. It was no different for me. And you never forget it!

Not only a Rolls Royce, but also another rarity can be seen in the photos: a VW Transporter T1, which was first built when I was born! Very expensive these days and especially popular with the English! (But WE love the Landrover Defender more than anything!)

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/02/21/lew-tassells-day-trip-i/#comment-1550224 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 11:48:03 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198977#comment-1550224 I wonder if the Champagne Temps were paid lemonade money 🙂

]]> By: Pauline Taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/02/21/lew-tassells-day-trip-i/#comment-1550214 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 11:16:09 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198977#comment-1550214 Thank you, these are so good and it is London as I remember it. I liked it better then and vividly remember going through the centre on the back of a scooter !

]]> By: Gilbert O’Brien https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/02/21/lew-tassells-day-trip-i/#comment-1550210 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 10:49:14 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198977#comment-1550210 Lew Tassell’s photos always capture something essential of London. They are always evocative, and there is something very honest in them. They never fail to move me. I look forward to the 16 year old’s photos. I hope.

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/02/21/lew-tassells-day-trip-i/#comment-1550203 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 10:34:20 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198977#comment-1550203 Good work putting up G.A.
Excellent pics from Lew with the swinging sixties underway, everybody listening to The Who, Beatles and Stones. What a time to be a young ‘un.
I stood on that same Lion in Winter 1990. Still got the photo Visited a very quiet and unfashionable Carnaby street in Aug 1979 on my way to see The Who, Stranglers, etc at Wembley Stadium.
Got me Mini nicked at the multi storey. What larks!
Great pics again. Ta.

]]> By: John Venes https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/02/21/lew-tassells-day-trip-i/#comment-1550202 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 10:22:03 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198977#comment-1550202 Great photos by Lew. I can appreciate them as I worked in Old Compton street as an office dogsbody in 1968 to 1969 after leaving school and before getting a proper job.
The tube journey from Bethnal Green to Tottenham Court road took just a few minutes but it was a different world. Lively and exciting with lots of characters.
I worked for a publisher and used to deliver and collect items from film companies and others. Quite an eye opener wandering around those streets!

Ps I also remember going with my dad to the Tower on Sunday afternoons and playing on the cannons.

]]> By: Amanda https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/02/21/lew-tassells-day-trip-i/#comment-1550187 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 09:34:27 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=198977#comment-1550187 Fabulous pictures. I couldn’t afford anything in Carnaby Street either, but it was great to be there!

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