Comments on: Philip Mernick’s East End Shopfronts

By: Phil Maxwell

Phil Maxwell — Thu, 29 May 2025 17:50:51 +0000

Thanks for publishing these marvellous images!

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Thu, 29 May 2025 12:02:43 +0000

Thank you for the enlargements! They are stunning. I was so captivated by the orderliness of each storefront, thinking how primped and staged everything was……….quite nice………but then the uproar of Palfreyman’s reminded me of how much I like visual chaos. I was able to also enlarge this photo at bit, and was pleased to see a whole array of toys on the left edge of the photo.
Seemingly, dolls, little toy horns, etc. I can imagine this storefront inside, the endless aisles of temptations, the collective “muchness” of it all. Quite thrilling for young and old alike. And for paper hounds like me — Well, stand aside. I’m puzzled by the object hanging above the door –
Could that be some kind of kite? Or is it a defunct awning? I like the shy grin of the sales girl, her face quite young and scrubbed, her hair a bit askew — and yet dark stockings and high heels — and is that a tiny flower in her lapel?

By: Jillian Foley

Jillian Foley — Thu, 29 May 2025 08:55:30 +0000

What amazing lovely photographs. My mother in law Polly Foley had a milliners shop in London in the forties. I think it was called Paulines. I would love to know if anyone remembers it. I think it was in the Canonbury or Islington area. So sad there are no relatives left to whom I could approach.

By: Winnie

Winnie — Thu, 29 May 2025 08:09:41 +0000

Love them.