East End Photographs and Drawings

[pmerryman]

Thanks to everyone who post the photos here, they are fantastic.

[Suzi]

Hi Rob,

Fantastic! Eat your heart out, Monet. This is art. I, too, want these at A1 size for our bathroom.

Thank you for helping make this the best and most continually fascinating thread on Casebook.

Regards,

Simon

Got some beautiful A4 ones printed out....anyone want some will bring 'em to WS 88

[Paddy Goose]

Blue Anchor Yard E1 photo by Harry Diamond 1970

Petticoat Lane 1936

[Simon Wood]

Hi Paddy,

I love the Blue Anchor Yard photograph.

"You're never alone with a Strand."

Anyone remember that?

Regards,

Simon

[Paddy Goose]

Can you hum a few bars?

[pmerryman]

Whats that in the Blue Anchor Yard photo, just before the bridge. It looks like a parking meter.

[The English Gardener]

Whats that in the Blue Anchor Yard photo, just before the bridge. It looks like a parking meter.

I think it's a parking meter.

[Suzi]

'Tis!!!- disguised in an astrakan coat!

[John Bennett]

A wee snippet from the Truman Times (the brewery's in-house magazine), 1977.

[Sam Flynn]

"The BBC sent a camera team along to film the kids enjoying Coke..."

That was in 1977! Who said the youth drug problem was a recent phenomenon?

[Limehouse]

School children doing a musical about Jack the Ripper? Can you imagine it ever being acceptable to perform a musical about Peter Sutcliffe or Brady and Hindley? How on earth must the families of his victims feel?

[Stephen Thomas]

A wee snippet from the Truman Times

And look, there's Freddie on the right.

[Stephen Thomas]

"You're never alone with a Strand."

Anyone remember that?

That one puzzled advertising people for years. The ad was so brilliant and popular that practically everybody in Britain knew and used the slogan but very few people bought the cigarettes. The Brand Recognition Factor just didn't work. Eventually they realised that the ad was actually sending out the subliminal message that if you smoked Strand cigarettes you were a sad b#stard with no friends.

Here's some stills and the music

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hZpHrc9-e74

[The English Gardener]

'Tis!!!- disguised in an astrakan coat!

If that thing's wearing an astrakan coat {d'you suppose it's his own, or did he borrow it from a certain gentleman last seen November 9, 1888}, it's even skinnnier than most of its compatriots. An ill-fed parking meter in the heart of London? Wouldn't hapen today, Boris would never allow it......

[Observer]

Hi here are a few more photos of the East End, I realise they do not have the interest of the Photos of yesteryear, but ehy do provide and insight into what the East End looks like today.

The first looks across St James place into Duke Street, it is possible the Ripper escaped this way after murdering Catherine Eddowes.



The second is an alley running off Artillery Lane, Jack the Sprayer has been at work.



The third is Little Allie Street, the rag trade still in evidence in the East End. Camelot fashions.

all the best

Observer