Comments on: Wonderful London’s East End https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/07/15/wonderful-londons-east-end-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 Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:53:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: JerryW https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/07/15/wonderful-londons-east-end-iii/#comment-2135645 Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:53:07 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=207595#comment-2135645 [addendum to the earlier comment!]

.. and on searching the site, I see that the murders and the Highway itself have indeed been explored in detail, in earlier entries!

]]> By: JerryW https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/07/15/wonderful-londons-east-end-iii/#comment-2135623 Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:39:11 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=207595#comment-2135623 The captions are as quaint and as period as the photographs themselves, a style the GA might like to take up when opportunity presents?

The Ratcliffe Highway is an interesting and historic road, worth an entry in its own right, if only for the notorious Ratcliffe Highway Murders ..

]]> By: Richard Cleaver https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/07/15/wonderful-londons-east-end-iii/#comment-2135485 Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:21:04 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=207595#comment-2135485 “Oh, how amusing the slum child, and how fascinating to see such scenes of poverty and destitution. One really must visit the poorer regions of the City when one next visits from the Home Counties”.

Wonderfully evocative photographs though, I do find the threat of “Art Nouveau ferro-concrete” genuinely amusing. It seems “Ghastly Facadism” has been around for longer than we may think.

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