The Blind Beggar

Odds and Sods

Lots I like about this snap... The pub, the saucy underwear stall, the muslim woman and kids walking past, and pigeon just out for a stroll...

The Blind Beggar in Whitechapel is infamous as the boozer where gangster Ronnie Kray shot and killed George Cornell in 1966..

iphone / hipstamatic app / chunky lens / ica's 1969 film

[Jeremy Nelson]

all those things you mentioned make this an amazing capture of this moment in time... brilliant! and you've framed it perfectly

[Brad Johnson]

It's a nice shot, and the treatment flatters it.

[Anita]

I love, love, love street pics - must take some myself! Just think how important these wondeful pictures could be in the future.

[Cherrill]

It's amazing this place is still functioning! I'd be afraid to go in, might never come out!! Everything you've captured in this photo kind of sums up London....its history, ethnicity, kids, market stalls, brilliant. I presume Watney Combe Reid is what's become of Watneys these days.

[★Namthip]

I love it too. The perspective and tone are really nice. (:

[Richard Tyson]

Cracking shot Andy. Lots to look at and a pub with history to boot!

[Denise]

Wonderful street shot - good tones.

[Charli]

Great shot Andy, I particularly like the pigeon!

[Darren Griffen]

I love this part of London, I've even had a pint or two in the Beggar, where even the cat looked hard...lol

[HC]

Agree with all of the reasons to like this photo as well!

[Michelle Sheils]

I like the fact that you've used the word 'saucy'. Oooh Matron!
All the elements in this really work. Great shot.

[Aaron L]

what underwear did you opt for in the end then? the lacy number...? ahaha

like the effect , might see if i can re-create this in Lightroom

[Helen Moss]

Great shot - really captures the feel of the place - when I lived in London years ago, friends of mine lived in a flat in Cazenove Rd in Stoke Newington which they said was where Jack The Hat McVitie was killed by the Krays - I was never sure it was quite true but it was a great story!

[Remco Greutink]

Very nice shot!!!

[peter/zipp]

ha haha, great stuff, perfectly topped off with the pigeon.

[Isla Wight]

Yes really like this - really captures the essence of this bit of London.

[Andrea Freeman]

The girls holding hands really draws me in especially with that hot pink bag. Nice one!

[Shannon Pitton]

So much going on in this shot. I wonder what the woman walking by thinks of the underwear being sold out in the open. Isn't diversity great?

[Phil Howcroft]

Andy great image and a pigeon in there too, nice one

[bernadette mcelligott]

Great street shot. Lots of little stories going on.

[andy c]

thanks guys
@azza_l you know me too well :-)
@griff yeah, been in here a few times... fun of dodgy east end geezers..lol
@shantwin She prob use to it... this stall is always at the market (she might even get her stuff ther :-)...)
@Cherrill thanks - think it's the same - lots of watney signs still on boozers around here...

[Cheryl Dolan]

cool shot