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'It is universally accepted that London has a West End and an East End. Nobody, it seems, has ever got around to bookending the City's northern and southern extremities in the same evocative fashion. Much has been written about the East End -- it is a story of prosperity, labour, immigration, decline, poverty, crime, neglect and rebirth, and in that order.' This book presents over 50 photographs alongside tales and histories of the East End, based on the author's popular walking tours of Whitechapel and Spitalfields.
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John G Bennett is a teacher and tour guide whose fascination for London has always focused on the East End, its people, places and legends. He is descended from generations of East Londoners and now lives in Middlesex.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Alas, the hunt for an intelligent and engaging text on the Spitalfields area continues. John G. Bennett's book would work perfectly well as a tourist pamphlet but is disappointing and overpriced as it is. The idea of an informal journey is not a bad one but the writing is lack-lustre and poorly edited, and historical details are covered with broad brushstrokes. Chapters are accompanied by early pictures, most of which are undated, and many of the author's own photographs. The latter are pretty mediocre - certainly anyone who has seen Markéta Luska'ová's wonderful Spitalfields series will find them very characterless - and the images overall are not helped by the poor quality of reproduction. If you are after a light, portable introduction for a walking tour of the area then "A Journey Through Whitechapel and Spitalfields" might just do; if you are after anything more substantial, don't bother with this book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
What the author has done here is put together an essential overview on the current view of the East End. Not flowery, not over influenced by history, but a balanced view of the area as of today. He cleverly interweaves the ever present ghosts from the past into today's society, and the photograpic images are quite beyond reproach.
If you are going to buy a combined pictorial and written work on the area, this book is probably the best you will find. I have read and re read it, and find new things out about the area every time. The author really has, in my honest opinion, caught the mood, the ambience and the conditions perfectly.
If I had one, tiny murmur of a wish..the accompaniment of a street map would have made the book total, but it is, for me, a very very fine effort indeed.
PC
If you are going to buy a combined pictorial and written work on the area, this book is probably the best you will find. I have read and re read it, and find new things out about the area every time. The author really has, in my honest opinion, caught the mood, the ambience and the conditions perfectly.
If I had one, tiny murmur of a wish..the accompaniment of a street map would have made the book total, but it is, for me, a very very fine effort indeed.
PC
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
I feel I have to disagree with the previous review of this book.
I felt it was wonderfully written from the perspective of someone who has obviously spent quite a bit of time in the area and has also done research to back up what he is writing about.
This book shows you what the areas of Spitalfields and Whitechapel were like before their many transformations over time. This book will allow anyone with an interest in the area to discover things about London's East End that they might not have known unless they have read books like People Of The Abyss by Jack London. The photographs within the book show both past and present E1.
Even now, when exploring the area, one can still feel the grittiness of what it once was although much of it was left behind ages ago in the rubble when many of the buildings pictured in this book were pulled down to make way for the new urban sprawl that is fast taking over.
This book evidently took a lot of time and love on the author's part to convey what I have felt within its pages.
Buy the book and read it. Then take a walk through Whitechapel and Spitalfields for yourself and discover the reasons why some of us find this place the most fascinating part of London.
I felt it was wonderfully written from the perspective of someone who has obviously spent quite a bit of time in the area and has also done research to back up what he is writing about.
This book shows you what the areas of Spitalfields and Whitechapel were like before their many transformations over time. This book will allow anyone with an interest in the area to discover things about London's East End that they might not have known unless they have read books like People Of The Abyss by Jack London. The photographs within the book show both past and present E1.
Even now, when exploring the area, one can still feel the grittiness of what it once was although much of it was left behind ages ago in the rubble when many of the buildings pictured in this book were pulled down to make way for the new urban sprawl that is fast taking over.
This book evidently took a lot of time and love on the author's part to convey what I have felt within its pages.
Buy the book and read it. Then take a walk through Whitechapel and Spitalfields for yourself and discover the reasons why some of us find this place the most fascinating part of London.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
A Good Starting Point
I bought this book as I found that some of my ancestors orignate from this area and I know very little about it. Read more
Published 12 months ago by M. Richards
Lacks focus in both writing and photography.
I had bypassed one reviewers 2-star review, as I was so hopeful that this book would be something of interest. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Licorice
Great as part of a wider library of East End books
This is really a very interesting book; the depth of information and the contrast between what was in a street and what is there today is fascinating and very well done. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Mr Duncan Steiger-Bowers
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