Comments on: Vanishing London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/10/15/vanishing-london-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 Wed, 16 Oct 2024 09:43:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: parktown https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/10/15/vanishing-london-i/#comment-1634426 Wed, 16 Oct 2024 09:43:11 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201321#comment-1634426 I spotted a few Light Reflectors .
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]]> By: Colin Cohen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/10/15/vanishing-london-i/#comment-1634145 Tue, 15 Oct 2024 10:42:25 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201321#comment-1634145 What a difference a century makes!

]]> By: Lizebeth https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/10/15/vanishing-london-i/#comment-1634102 Tue, 15 Oct 2024 06:12:33 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201321#comment-1634102 Despite the realities of this period of history — great poverty and disease, poor education for many people, and long, hard, working hours — there is unspeakable beauty in these old photos. So much could have been preserved with sensitivity to our past history, yet it is indeed vanished. If not demolished before WW II, the Blitz did for many of these remnants.

Wonderful to see these photos, and to imagine what the streets of an 1890’s London must have been like.

I note that two of the buildings adjacent to the Adelphi Theatre on the Strand are still there, somewhat modified.

Thank you for printing the pictures. More, please?

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