David Johnson’s East End
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Liverpool St Station
Shall we take a tour around the East End in the early eighties in the company of David Johnson, courtesy of his wonderful Kodachrome photographs?
“My interest in London’s history goes back to the late sixties, when as a teenager I would take the train from Oxford and then, using a Red Bus Rover ticket and a copy of Geoffrey Fletcher’s The London Nobody Knows, discover some of the most interesting and off-beat parts of the capital. In 1977, seeking a job after graduating and with a strong interest in photography, I ended up in London selling cameras in Tottenham Court Rd. I first explored the old wharves and docklands before they disappeared and then, after moving to Dalston, the East End. Derelict buildings, faded signs, architecture on a human scale are all things which I liked to photograph then – and still do today.”
David Johnson
Liverpool St Station
Liverpool St Station
Liverpool St Station
Artillery Lane
Brushfield St
Christ Church Spitalfields
Fashion St
Spitalfields barber
Hanbury St
Brick Lane
Homeless men in Spitalfields
The City from Spitalfields
Whitechapel Market
Wapping Police Station
Wapping
St Paul’s School, Wellclose Sq
Wapping High St
River Plate Wharf
Wapping
Wapping Pier Head
The Gun, Isle of Dogs
The Black Horse, Limehouse
Grove Place, Hackney
Empress Coaches, Hackney
Regent’s Canal
Cat & Mutton Bridge
Broadway Market
Broadway Market
George Tallet, Fishmonger, Hackney
Carr’s Pet Stores, Hackney
Trederwen Rd, Hackney
Photographs copyright © David Johnson
Makes me feel good to come from here .
I think these are lovely photos. A beautiful collection of images. Just the sort of things that inspire me! Pete
The last photo – I wonder who the Pussys were of Pussy’s Butchers?
The London I remember to a degree.
Liverpool Street especially vivid, just as I remember it.
Great pictures of a beautifully decrepit East End, ripe for the greedy bastards to redeveloped and to begin excluding the locals.
Thanks one and all.
I couldn’t have put it better than Mark if I tried. Wonderful photos, so atmospheric. Thank you.
Superb photos of times long gone and places greatly changed. The Black Horse was always referred to as ‘The House They Left Behind’. I think it is actually a house now.
I like the photos of Liverpool Street station. It had a lot of character before they revamped it and built Broadgate.
ooh.. the nostalgic longing these familiar street photos resurrect in memory of younger days – feels like home..
I really like the new fashioned/old fashioned shop signage for the Spitalfields barber shop. Quite a sharp-looking front, too.