Comments on: E. O. Hoppé’s Londoners

By: Eve

Eve — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 10:08:36 +0000

Superb photographs sensitively representative of Londoners from diverse backgrounds & cultures, who settled here and became locals. I loved the accompanying observations too..

By: Sonia Murray

Sonia Murray — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 02:29:56 +0000

What wonderful portraits! The loving, gentle faces of the homeworkers – they must be sisters – remind me so much of my Gran. What a very great pity that none of the subjects are identified! But it’s wonderful that they have all been immortalized by the photographer’s art.

And yes, these beautiful portraits should be exhibitedfor the world to see.

By: Cherub

Cherub — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 16:47:35 +0000

These photos are beautiful. The 2 homeworkers could be sisters and the story of Bill made me laugh out loud.

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:18:34 +0000

So much to appreciate here — each portrait evoked wonderings, assumptions, wild-blue-y0nder guesses, and speculations. The girl messenger stopped me dead in my tracks. Take another look, and you will find a luminous beauty, with lovely downcast modest eyes (dare I say, a good “cover” for an undoubtedly street-savvy young woman) and graceful young hands. Yes, we are to believe that she is poised, about to reach into her pouch for the requisite letter — afterall that is her daily mission and hard-earned profession — but I could easily imagine her pulling out a fluttering handkerchief, or perhaps a letter that SHE recieved from an ardent admirer? “Ah, yes, let me give that letter from Jack just one more look…………….” It is already limp from being folded and re-folded, read and re-read. //// Is it possible that young Jack took up the services of the Complete Letter Writer, to create this treasured “keeper” of a letter? No wonder his lady love is so dazzled with the expert, fond entreaties here?

Many thanks, GA.

By: Mathilde Grange

Mathilde Grange — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 14:22:29 +0000

Beautiful! Thank you!

By: Francesca Jobson

Francesca Jobson — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 11:07:30 +0000

Love this blog as. Londoner born and bred I lived in Kings Cross / Caledonian rd from 1957…. My grandparents on my father’s side came from Italy in 1910 … I had many relatives in the clerkenwll area which was known as the Italian ghetto….. my mothers family were English sand she grew up in Rising Hill stree N.1 close to chapel street market… your blogs and accompanying photographs depict a London long gone.Reading your articles and looking at the photos brings a lot of nostalgia…….although times were very tough then ………..
,not too unlike the conditions for some today.

By: Annie S

Annie S — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 09:42:47 +0000

What a great find!
A brilliant set of photographs and accompanying interviews.

By: Bernie

Bernie — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 09:27:54 +0000

Indeed, these images were made by an artist gifted by a rare quality of imagination. They deserve to be much better known. Are enough of them in the repository where they now lie to make a book? If so, an effort should be made to bring it to publication.

By: Kate Amis

Kate Amis — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 06:41:43 +0000

What a joy! I especially love the story about Mrs Marsden’ s Bill. A delight . Thank you for finding and sharing.

By: Jane Parker

Jane Parker — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 06:03:26 +0000

These images are absolutely gorgeous. The composition, the lighting, everything beautifully captured. They really should form part of an exhibition. Please try to make that happen.