Comments on: Colin O’Brien’s Clerkenwell Car Crashes https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/02/02/colin-obriens-clerkenwell-car-crashes-iii/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:36:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/02/02/colin-obriens-clerkenwell-car-crashes-iii/#comment-1921172 Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:36:05 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=206037#comment-1921172 The photographed accident involving the small van at this crossing has become iconic. — Colin’s colour photograph taken at the same spot shows a patriotic little Mini that appears to be in the same danger… 🙂

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Polly Hodges https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/02/02/colin-obriens-clerkenwell-car-crashes-iii/#comment-1921084 Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:18:45 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=206037#comment-1921084 Thank you for this charming and thought provoking story. It reminds me of the wonderful 1995 film Smoke starring Harvey Keitel. In the film Keitel plays a Brooklyn tobacconist who takes a picture of the front of his shop every day.

And special thanks for teaching me the word “plangent”.

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/02/02/colin-obriens-clerkenwell-car-crashes-iii/#comment-1920980 Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:43:51 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=206037#comment-1920980 I think one could write a novel about that lone pedestrian on New Year’s Eve. Or at least a short
story. I think this might be one of my top-ten of all the photographs you have presented.

Thank you, GA.

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/02/02/colin-obriens-clerkenwell-car-crashes-iii/#comment-1920957 Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:09:47 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=206037#comment-1920957 More great images! I loved the Guinness adverts, as well as many others, and often take photos of the ‘ghost’ images of adverts that have been left behind on some old walls around the London area (probably elsewhere too?) And taking that on to TV, us kids were more interested in the adverts when ATV/ITV came in back in the 50s, than the actual programmes they ‘interrupted’.

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