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Spitalfields & Whitechapel In Old Photographs

October 5, 2025
by the gentle author

 

I am giving an illustrated lecture of Spitalfields & Whitechapel in Old Photographs on Thursday 16th October at 7pm at the Hanbury Hall in Hanbury St, E1 6QR.

Drawing upon more than 45,000 images that I have collected over the past sixteen years here on Spitalfields Life, I will be showing a selection of images spanning the past hundred and fifty years that reveal the changing urban landscape and life of Spitalfields & Whitechapel, including work by the Society for Photographing the Relics of Old London, London & Middlesex Archaeological Society, Charles Chusseau-Flaviens, John Thompson, Jack London, Horace Warner, C A Mathew, David Bailey, John Claridge, Philip Marriage, Colin O’Brien, Mark Jackson & Huw Davies, Marketa Luskacova, Ron McCormick, Clive Murphy, Suresh Singh, David Hoffman, Phil Maxwell, Fran May, Raju Vaidyanathan and more.

 

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Society for Photographing the Relics of Old London

London & Middlesex Archaeological Society

Charles Chusseau-Flaviens

Jack London

Horace Warner

C A Mathew

John Claridge

Dan Cruickshank

Geoff Perrior

Tony Hall

Tex Ajetunmobi

David Truzzi-Franconi

Dragan Novaković

Homer Sykes

Val Perrin

Shloimy Alman

Mark Jackson & Huw Davies

Malcom Tremain

Ron McCormick

Clive Murphy

Colin O’Brien

Syd Shelton

David Hoffman

Tony Bock

Dennis Anthony

Philip Marriage

Phil Maxwell

Suresh Singh

Marketa Luskacova

Raju Vaidyanathan

Alan Dein

Fran May

Nick Strangelove

Sarah Ainslie

Photographs courtesy Bishopsgate Institute

 

5 Responses leave one →
  1. Karen Rennie permalink
    October 5, 2025

    That is a wonderful archive of the changing faces of
    the part of London you know so well. Thankyou for
    preserving and sharing these moments in time.

  2. Philip Marriage permalink
    October 5, 2025

    I can see a really good book coming on . . .

  3. Laura Williamson permalink
    October 5, 2025

    Wonderful images.

    I was particulary struck by the Horace Warner, an alley most of us couldn’t imagine living in but still with pots of flowers on the sill and a smartly dressed girl posing in her carefully tilted hat.

    He had such a gift for capturing people with affection and respect.

  4. Marcia Howard permalink
    October 5, 2025

    What an amazing collection of images. Every one telling its own story.

  5. Adrian Jackson permalink
    October 6, 2025

    always a joy and a delight. Revelation and reminiscence in equal measure. thanks

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