East End Photographs and Drawings

[Rosella]

I don't know about carriages but Hansom cabs certainly had stands. They and big family sized ex private carriages for hire, known as 'growlers', picked up customers from stands usually, not while out and about in the streets. Mostly they would wait in stands near railway stations, theatres, big hotels, but maybe Dorset St was a rare exception.

[Joshua Rogan]

Doesn´t it look as if there are two carriages, one behind the other, in the "new" picture? Were there special spots where carriages waited, much like todays taxi spots, back then...?

I wondered that too. Dorset Street doesn't seem like the ideal spot to pick up passing trade, at least not the sort that could afford a cab ride, but it is handily placed just off Commercial Street. And, on the 1890 map at least, there are three stables (at 25, 29 & 31), so perhaps that's where they stopped to change horses?

[DJA]

The second picture was taken for Jack London's "People of the Abyss" circa 1902.
Crikey,three guys with soft peaked caps. Ripper Central.

[Fisherman]

Weird that there's a carriage in the same place in every picture...

Doesn´t it look as if there are two carriages, one behind the other, in the "new" picture? Were there special spots where carriages waited, much like todays taxi spots, back then...?

[Robert]

Modern 'architecture' is crap.

[DJA]

I've just noticed it looks to be taken from a similar spot as the well known Dorset st picture.
If you compare the lamps on the left.
They look as though they were taken on different sides of the road

Both taken on the road.

Crossinghams on the corner of Paternoster Row is in the front left of both photos.Second building.35 Dorset Street.


The lamp nearest the carriage is actually 3 doors closer to the camera than Millers Court.

[MsWeatherwax]

Was in Spitalfields yesterday. Looked like a war zone. Fruit exchange gone, massive demolition next to Brushfield St. Entire Streets seemed to have vanished. Dorset [Duval] seems consigned to history, At this rate there will be nothing left of the old EastEnd. In a few years time Ripper tours will be impossible.
Very depressing the way London is being destroyed, turning into a high rise hell.

Miss Marple

I couldn't agree more Miss M. Everyone took the P out of Prince Charles for his 'monstrous carbuncle' statement, but he's actually quite right.

One of the reasons London is such a popular city for tourists is the fantastic architecture spanning centuries - sadly, large chunks of it seem to be being transformed into completely faceless high rise greenhouses.

I'm going to go an be curmudgeonly elsewhere.

[miss marple]

Was in Spitalfields yesterday. Looked like a war zone. Fruit exchange gone, massive demolition next to Brushfield St. Entire Streets seemed to have vanished. Dorset [Duval] seems consigned to history, At this rate there will be nothing left of the old EastEnd. In a few years time Ripper tours will be impossible.
Very depressing the way London is being destroyed, turning into a high rise hell.

Miss Marple

[MrBarnett]

What appear to be sketches in The Appeal were based on photos that had appeared a year previously (August 4, 1901) in the San Francisco Chronicle .

http://www.jtrforums.com/showthread.php?p=289294&highlight=Maher#post289294

(Courtesy of JTRForums and Rob Clack)

[Howard Brown]

Here's the article from whence the photo in post 4014 came from :

http://www.jtrforums.com/showthread.php?t=11930&highlight=%22blood+alley%22&page=2

[GUT]

Maybe the sketch was made off the photo.

[Yabs]

Even in the sketch of the millers court entrance there seems to be a parked carriage at approximately the spot where it appears in both photographs

[Yabs]

Weird that there's a carriage in the same place in every picture...

I know, it even looks like the same carriage with the white area at its rear lol.

[Joshua Rogan]

Weird that there's a carriage in the same place in every picture...

[Yabs]

I've just noticed it looks to be taken from a similar spot as the well known Dorset st picture.
If you compare the lamps on the left.
They look as though they were taken on different sides of the road