Comments on: Postcards From Petticoat Lane

By: Chris Simpson

Chris Simpson — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 12:04:01 +0000

I remember Sunday mornings in East Street Market Walworth with crowds just like this in the late 1950s -1960s. You all shuffled along heading for your favorite stalls, always (on Sundays) for me was the Seafood stalls for a bowl of Jellied Eels with a chunk of bread and a plate of cockles with a bag of Winkles to take home for my Mum,s tea. Fresh fruit and Veg for Sunday dinner. Who thought then that this way of life for us Londoners would ever end!

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 10:36:07 +0000

What tremendous crowds went to the Markets back then. I loved Petticoat Lane, and the Columbia Flower Market, but no longer living in London so it’s a long time since I’ve been to either. Still thankfully have a small twice weekly market in the Market Town I now live in.

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 14:13:24 +0000

“……a necessary sense of collective human presence”. My mind got caught on that phrase, and how perfectly it suited the photos above. Given the chance to time travel back to London on that Sunday morning, I would prefer the Market to the Church. I would select a hat, shawl and my most comfortable shoes, gather up a few carry bags and then I would wade in; eager to witness the faces, hands, garb, chatter, attitudes and glances of my fellow shoppers.

By: BERNIE

BERNIE — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 13:31:46 +0000

Mathilde’s claim that women appear only around vegetable stalls is obviously untrue. I looked specially and found that I could see many women but that it required more careful scrutiny because they are generally shorter and their hats less prominent. But many dresses and aprons can be seen.

By: Mathilde Grange

Mathilde Grange — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 09:19:09 +0000

Wow! That’s the first thing that came to my mind. Then I realized that in most of these photographs the throngs are made up by men… Women only appear around vegetable stalls. Please, give my regards to Schrödinger.