Comments on: Wonderful London’s East End https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/06/29/wonderful-londons-east-end-ii/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Tue, 29 Jul 2025 08:58:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Slope 2 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/06/29/wonderful-londons-east-end-ii/#comment-1764107 Tue, 29 Jul 2025 08:58:14 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203733#comment-1764107 What a fascinating glimpse into East End life, these photos and vivid captions bring forgotten corners of London back to life with charm and honesty.

]]> By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/06/29/wonderful-londons-east-end-ii/#comment-1745836 Thu, 03 Jul 2025 06:19:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203733#comment-1745836 The last image, that poor little soul has nothing. I hope he went on to have a better life. My grandmother was Victorian, from a little mining village on the east coast of Fife. She said she was lucky because she had shoes on her feet, a lot of children didn’t:(

]]> By: achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/06/29/wonderful-londons-east-end-ii/#comment-1743624 Sun, 29 Jun 2025 14:25:55 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203733#comment-1743624 The city council certainly didn’t think that the street water sprinkler would have this amusing side-effect function. But the children did!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/06/29/wonderful-londons-east-end-ii/#comment-1743612 Sun, 29 Jun 2025 13:16:45 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203733#comment-1743612 Wait. “odd bills of fare printed on satin”. I am totally intrigued with that.
Certainly, we know that early paper had a noticeable/tactile component of cotton………but “satin”? My mind is playing with this concept, imagining many of the highly-decorative/stylish
handbills you have shown us in the past — but now visualizing them printed on lustrous
satin. I may have misinterpreted all of this — and, if so, please do not correct me. I am enjoying
the mystery!

Many thanks for this series — each one, a novel waiting to happen.

]]> By: ANDY STROWMAN https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/06/29/wonderful-londons-east-end-ii/#comment-1743517 Sun, 29 Jun 2025 09:13:29 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203733#comment-1743517 A telling lot of photos and the legacy of living in that poverty never leaves you .
It’s inside your brain .

]]> By: Mathilde Grange https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/06/29/wonderful-londons-east-end-ii/#comment-1743515 Sun, 29 Jun 2025 08:52:38 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203733#comment-1743515 Sad and also beautiful. Thank you.

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