Comments on: At The Shops With Tony Hall https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/09/09/at-the-shops-with-tony-hall-iiii/ 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, 09 Sep 2026 17:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/09/09/at-the-shops-with-tony-hall-iiii/#comment-2175403 Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:31:00 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=207992#comment-2175403 So many people do all their shopping online, including the weekly food shop, but if we don’t use our local shops they will ALL disappear, and worse, there will be ‘No Community At All’, therefore many people, especially the older generation, will become isolated and have the dangers that brings with it. We’re social humans, and that needs nurturing through many channels.

]]> By: Debra. E. Sewell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/09/09/at-the-shops-with-tony-hall-iiii/#comment-2175384 Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:17:16 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=207992#comment-2175384 Thank you .I wish I could ho into those small neighborhood shops .Village shops where owners lived above their shops, they remembered their customers names. They were precious time in space..Modern world doesn’t care now. They only care about taking selfie’s of their own self centered faces.

I had favs i saw in the shops list. I especially loved the little Post Office and tiny car. Thank you so much.

Debra

]]> By: JerryW https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/09/09/at-the-shops-with-tony-hall-iiii/#comment-2175374 Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:17:27 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=207992#comment-2175374 Evocative, yes .. but I do think our hygiene standards have really advanced since then!

]]> By: Hetty Startup https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/09/09/at-the-shops-with-tony-hall-iiii/#comment-2175360 Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:06:00 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=207992#comment-2175360 thank you….all these photos are so evocative of [my] London childhood – sixties, west London, rather than the east end, but not so different…the fishmongers shop with all the fish laid out on white ceramic slabs…the advertising signs for cigarettes – woodbine and senior service …the faces of people that perhaps the photographer saw on a daily or weekly basis. It is great that Bishopsgate Institute has these rich collections of images of the life – lives – once led in London.

]]> By: Mark B https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/09/09/at-the-shops-with-tony-hall-iiii/#comment-2175340 Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:57:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=207992#comment-2175340 “Fantastic!” What great photos.

Although the shops would be grubby by todays standers…. I love em!

Thanks for your marvellous blog, I read it every day, have done for years now.

Mark

]]> By: Dominic Pinto https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/09/09/at-the-shops-with-tony-hall-iiii/#comment-2175307 Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:28:44 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=207992#comment-2175307 Noting one poster ad for Guinness above one corner shop highlighted, and reminded me, that as in areas of Newcastle upon Tyne that I lived in during tge 1970s and 1980s (before Thatcher era deregulation?), none sold alcohol. Tgat was the preserve of the offie, the off- licence, which were I take it closely regulated, with effectuvely a monopoly in tgeir local area …. save for any off-sales for suitably licensed pubs …

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