Comments on: Syd Shelton’s East End

By: David Breuer

David Breuer — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 13:27:38 +0000

Some may be interested to know that Unicorn are publishing a full monograph on Syd and his work this autumn. It is an important book documenting more than 50 years of social involvement and the exceptional images that come from his eye and his completely engaged brain

By: Curt

Curt — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 11:41:35 +0000

The person in the Aldgate East 1979 photo is Roi Pearce one of the lead singers of the 4 Skins.

By: John Venes

John Venes — Sat, 25 May 2024 09:49:16 +0000

You may have been. You miss my point. Not all of us were

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 25 May 2024 06:27:53 +0000

Sub cultures?
Punks skins, rastas etc.
That’s what we were.

By: John Venes

John Venes — Fri, 24 May 2024 19:29:22 +0000

I was born in Bethnal Green and stayed until I got married and had to move out as there was no place to live.
It’s interesting to see these photos but please don’t portray us as some kind of
sub culture.

By: Cherub

Cherub — Fri, 24 May 2024 17:15:53 +0000

The school cleaners reminded me of my late mother. She got a job cleaning a local primary, then a High School after my dad was made redundant as a miner in 1969. It was hard heavy work at times, but she enjoyed the cameraderie of the other ladies and stayed until she retired in 1980. Sadly, she passed away within a year of retiring as she’d been diagnosed with a progressive condition. School cleaners were always fighting for better pay, I think my mother got about 10 pounds a week to start and it was only about 15 pounds when she retired. She was highly respected by a lot of the teachers who attended her funeral with the Headmaster and Headmistress.

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Fri, 24 May 2024 13:10:06 +0000

Was there cause for dancing here? Apparently so — “Opening soon! – Farr’s School Of Dancing”.
These photos put me under their spell — I could imagine the engaging Linda on the dancefloor, lost in thought and twirling while those languid boys from Hoxton look on. They are too cool for dancing, but expert at striking poses. The older folks gather, sitting on folding chairs, all around the dance floor. The sisters from Bow murmur, recalling long-ago dance frocks, and boys they once both dated. A thousand years ago. The names of the boys come easily, stored so carefully in both sisters’ memories. The pomp and uproar of the Royal Wedding…….the churning turmoil of street protests…….a solitary figure sits in their familiar chair, a mirror reflecting the outer world………
Stories unspool.

An incredible array of photos. The stuff of life.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 24 May 2024 10:16:00 +0000

Tough, hard, radical, poverty stricken, pride infused, sub cultures abounded. The London I mixed in during the late seventies and eighties. T.v. progs like The Sweeney made it pretty glamourous to us country bumpkins.
Supa snaps.

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Fri, 24 May 2024 09:22:27 +0000

Amazing images. Life in the Raw. Thank you so much for sharing.

By: Richard Cleaver

Richard Cleaver — Fri, 24 May 2024 07:58:40 +0000

Simple, yet with such depth and presence throughout. Exceptional work.