These are some Kodachrome slides from over 3,000 taken by David Granick. They were all taken in East London, from 1960-1975.
This is just how I remember it from my youth. They need no captions, but the view of Tower Bridge includes sailing barges, which were still working on the river in 1960.
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It’s somehow heart touching how a city looses his origin face, and converts to something new. Most time high important but lifeless buildings. Thanks for sharing, Pete ! xx Michael
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Yes indeed, Michael. Modern buildings often seem to have no heart and soul.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I enjoyed these, Pete. For those who knew the area, it must be a flood of memories long gone.
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Yes, I was in my twenties when the last ones were taken. Everything in these photos is long gone now.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Everything? Wow. Best to you, Pete.
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Except Tower Bridge of course. 🙂 🙂
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Of course. 🙂
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I use old photos routinely when I am doing genealogy(after the advent of cameras of course!) Nothing else can really convey how things once looked. The bombing in London can really only be taken in with photos I think.
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The thing I like about these colour slides is that they are relatively ‘modern’. Some were taken in 1975. It shows how little London had changed by the mid-1970s.
Best wishes, Pete.
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It reminds me of Oregon before it changed entirely. That happened in the 80’s on I think.
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Wow! This is fascinating Pete! Thank you. Loved the cardboard guy with the horse pointing at the camera! 💕C
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Men like him were found all over London, Cheryl. Salvage of paper and cardboard, scrap metal, anything they could sell. That photo is from 1975, so relatively ‘modern’.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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very nice, some memories flood back
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It’s a shame it has all gone now, Bobby.
Cheers, Pete.
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Thank you. Cool, Warmest regards, Theo
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I do love the atmosphere in old slide film, Theo.
Best wishes, Pete.
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These are terrific Pete…a different time to be sure, but here in LA, things are torn down after ten years and the new structures have no “soul” at all…these seem infused with history and “soul”
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At the time, those places hadn’t changed since Queen Victoria was on the throne. The East London we knew and loved. Mostly gone now.
The Kodachrome slide photos are luscious. So much more evocative than anything digital.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I was going to ask if the places have changed since then. (I assumed they had.)
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Yes, every place in the photos has either been demolished, or ‘gentrified’, Liz.
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I love the old architecture, but the streets appear so small.
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They were small streets in a very crowded inner-city area, GP.
But the streets had been there since the late 1500s. No traffic in those days to worry about, only people walking, and horses.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Very evocative photos, Pete. It certainly is a bygone era! Cheers, Jon.
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It makes me feel that my youth was almost ‘Dickensian’, Jon.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thanks for showing these pictures, Pete!
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I found them online and was captivated by them, Pit.
I wish I could look at all the 3,000 slides he took.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Love the photos, Pete! I wish I’d have taken pictures of Seattle when I was young and kept them. Although you can still find old Seattle in the neighborhoods, downtown has changed dramatically!
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Those old Kodachrome slides do give the photos a rather magical feel.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I remember only too well how the East End used to look. It’s not my East End anymore and I hardly ever go back.
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I knew you would relate to this post, Stevie.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Ha ha. I still have mental images of that time in my head. It’s too sad to go back and see what’s been done to it. I just go back once a year to my grandmother’s grave, and that’s it.
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I have not been back for years now, and unless I win the lottery and buy a riverside flat next to Tower Bridge for occasional visits, I doubt I will ever see ‘my city’ again.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Me either. We used to go to West End shows, but what with the Clean Air charges and increased petrol and parking charges, the novelty has worn off.
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I remember those barges…and the rag and bone man. We had coal delivered through a hole in the pavement and we had a milkman. I remember also the bomb sites and going up to the Round Pond to catch tiddlers.
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Bomb sites were the playgrounds of my childhood, Carolyn.
Best wishes, Pete.
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My brother too. He used to come home black from head to foot.
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Love the stories these photos tell.
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Glad to hear that, Annette. They seem rather ‘ancient’ now, but were all taken in my lifetime.
Best wishes, Pete.
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All long gone!
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Yes indeed, Jack. Victims of ‘gentrification’ in the main.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Shabby? No, Pete, lived in. Such fine photos.
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He had a feel for the city, Don.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Looking back…
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
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It looks shabby by modern standards, but the city had a real heart then.
Best wishes, Pete.
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