Comments on: The Ghosts Of Old London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/12/26/the-ghosts-of-old-london-iii/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 28 Feb 2025 19:40:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Andy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/12/26/the-ghosts-of-old-london-iii/#comment-1697060 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 19:40:54 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201818#comment-1697060 totally awesome! I’m a sign writer. …its fantastic to see these wonderful old buildings and a bonus for them to be so well signwritten!

]]> By: Rob Edwards https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/12/26/the-ghosts-of-old-london-iii/#comment-1675945 Tue, 31 Dec 2024 20:46:32 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201818#comment-1675945 this way. Onward into 2025 and upward on the ever escalating, long winding, road that's rumoured to lead us to Infinity & Beyond🤣]]> And a Happy New Year to You, Gentle Author, and to All Who Day to Day or Dipping In Now & Then as Do I happen to pass their Reading 👀 this way.

Onward into 2025 and upward on the ever escalating, long winding, road that’s rumoured to lead us to Infinity & Beyond🤣

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/12/26/the-ghosts-of-old-london-iii/#comment-1670861 Thu, 26 Dec 2024 14:58:09 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201818#comment-1670861 “Nothing seemed to be going on but the clocks, and they had such drowsy faces, such heavy lazy hands, and such cracked voices that they surely must have been too slow.”
— The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens.

I love these photos of the big old city, crammed with people of course — but somehow the photographer has captured these scenes that are (almost) deserted.

The wealth of details here astounds me. The lettered signs, the worn hampers and baskets,
the scaley bannisters, the tilting architecture, the massive wagon wheels, the clutter, etc.
A banquet of images and stories.

Thank you, GA.

]]> By: Liz https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/12/26/the-ghosts-of-old-london-iii/#comment-1670644 Thu, 26 Dec 2024 10:39:32 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201818#comment-1670644 I think you are so right about ghosts at Christmas. This is perhaps especially true if you lost someone at that time of year or experienced great sadness. These are great photographs and remind us of places and people gone though definitely not forgotten. The older I get the less I look forward to Christmas. Way too many sad memories bubble to the surface.

]]> By: Christine Swan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/12/26/the-ghosts-of-old-london-iii/#comment-1670638 Thu, 26 Dec 2024 10:28:30 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201818#comment-1670638 A very Merry Christmas to you dear GA and to all of your readers.
I adore these old photographs as they form a mood board of ideas from the final quarter of the nineteenth century. I walk these streets often when I visit London, and I look for glimpses of what my forebears would have seen. Sometimes, it is impossible, but, turn a corner, and time might just have stood still. Thank you for providing more inspirational photographs.

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