Comments on: Neil Martinson, Photographer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/11/neil-martinson-photographer-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 Sat, 13 Apr 2024 20:24:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: glyn https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/11/neil-martinson-photographer-i/#comment-1566168 Sat, 13 Apr 2024 20:24:12 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199397#comment-1566168 Great photos but struggling to work out what the street in Stoke Newington is. Looks like it was about to be demolished. There seems to be a slight hill up away from the camera but that isn’t helping my detective work! Nor can I remember a bakery called Thomas in Stoke Newington.

]]> By: P. Taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/11/neil-martinson-photographer-i/#comment-1565556 Fri, 12 Apr 2024 08:26:46 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199397#comment-1565556 Does anyone remember Taveners sweet factory at the end of Ridley
Road market.

]]> By: Christine Swan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/11/neil-martinson-photographer-i/#comment-1565523 Fri, 12 Apr 2024 06:45:22 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199397#comment-1565523 Great photos Neil and the GA. I love the two teacher photos – the first doing the job in the playground, and the second, campaigning for a better deal for children. I did the same. I protested against cuts ( and still do). Education is the great leveller – it doesn’t matter who you are, or where you are from, come on in, sit down, and learn. Wonderful!

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/11/neil-martinson-photographer-i/#comment-1565242 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:37:32 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199397#comment-1565242 The masses toil while the bosses water the workers beer. Something’s never change.
Nice pics.

]]> By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/11/neil-martinson-photographer-i/#comment-1565238 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:53:04 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199397#comment-1565238 The photos of the barbershop take me back about 60 years. When I was little my dad used to take me for a walk depending on his shift, he was a miner. Sometimes he’d stop at the barbers and I’d sit while he had his hair cut. I still remember the smells of all the lotions and potions and the barber singeing freshly cut hair to seal the ends.

]]> By: EITHNE ROSALINDE NIGHTINGALE https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/11/neil-martinson-photographer-i/#comment-1565226 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 08:15:17 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199397#comment-1565226 After looking at about 5000 images I found the perfect image for the front cover of my book Child Migrant Voices in Modern Britain – Oral Histories 1930s – Present Day published by Bloomsbury February 2024.

It was by Neil Martinson of a multi-racial group of children arm in arm strolling to William Patten school in Stoke Newington in 1974. Perfect.
See childmigrantstories.com/voices

Lots of East End stories

]]> By: Andy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/04/11/neil-martinson-photographer-i/#comment-1565208 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 06:09:07 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199397#comment-1565208 Very very evocative

]]>