Comments on: A Couple Of Pints With Tony Hall https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/07/27/a-couple-of-pints-with-tony-hall-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 Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:44:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Dave Phillips https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/07/27/a-couple-of-pints-with-tony-hall-i/#comment-1763061 Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:44:23 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203978#comment-1763061 Great photos! Lovely looking people as well. I have gotten to know a few of the ‘day drinkers’ at my local. I go there for a take away coffee, which the amazing bar lady prepares with real style and a smile to match. Worthy folks all. The Queenslander; Mary St., Gympie, Ostrallia.

]]> By: John Campbell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/07/27/a-couple-of-pints-with-tony-hall-i/#comment-1763044 Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:03:50 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203978#comment-1763044 Peter Cragg featured on these pages once before in the photo portraits of former boxers.
The poster outside ‘The Laurel Tree’ features his fight in October 1970.

]]> By: John Campbell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/07/27/a-couple-of-pints-with-tony-hall-i/#comment-1763041 Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:00:24 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203978#comment-1763041 The picture of ‘The Laurel Tree’ has posters of a boxing event that took place in October 1970.

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/07/27/a-couple-of-pints-with-tony-hall-i/#comment-1762879 Sun, 27 Jul 2025 14:45:08 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203978#comment-1762879 All the telling details ! — they pull us into the scene, and we are PART of this tableau, this welcoming culture of friends, this warm encircling environment. No I did not grow up with a pub, or anything similar — but these photos have inoculated me with the feeling of such places. And
people.

As a kid, I often went along to working-class blue-collar saloons, after baseball games where Dad was the Umpire. The scruffy bars, with scattered tables, bar stools, neon signs, jukeboxes, and
joyous uproars were the perfect darkened “cave” following a day of sunshine and sport. A glorious way to experience a classic summer day in small Western Pennsylvania towns on the banks of the Allegheny River. Beers flowed easily (Iron City, preferred) and shots followed.

]]> By: Mark 1 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/07/27/a-couple-of-pints-with-tony-hall-i/#comment-1762862 Sun, 27 Jul 2025 14:28:13 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203978#comment-1762862 Wednesday for the cup and blurry calender in the pub denote 1968. Could be Pinza, won the Derby, 1953?

]]> By: Mark 1 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/07/27/a-couple-of-pints-with-tony-hall-i/#comment-1762859 Sun, 27 Jul 2025 14:24:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203978#comment-1762859 Glorious art.
The “Swinging Sixties” writ large.
Breathtakingly beautiful images.
I cry inside with sadness/happiness.
These works summon up something strange in me. I can’t describe. Thank you.

]]> By: achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/07/27/a-couple-of-pints-with-tony-hall-i/#comment-1762801 Sun, 27 Jul 2025 12:17:59 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203978#comment-1762801 Photos that recall better and friendlier times that we all experienced. And they remind me of something else: I haven’t been to my favourite pub for a GUINNESS for a long time…! 🙂

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: ANDY STROWMAN https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/07/27/a-couple-of-pints-with-tony-hall-i/#comment-1762636 Sun, 27 Jul 2025 07:10:51 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203978#comment-1762636 The sort of photos that make me remember blokes I knew .

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