Create 2012: David Bailey's East End

I went to (Daniel St.) school with the Kray twins and although I moved fron the East End in the early 50s (& was evacuuated to Sussex during WW2) I still have close family living in East Ham so I was interested when this exhibition was announced and determined to visit it. Although I was generally impressed with the exhibits and saw several familiar scenes from my past, there was one particular photo which upset and offended me. That was the one of the baby pigeon being shot by a "lady" using a handgun! Horrible. I would have preferred that it would have been left out of the display and another pic take its place (as I know there were several other photos not included).

Not a huge exhibition but a great selection of photographs. I urge all to visit David Baileys East End before it closes. It's a rarity to see the great mans work in such an intimate space (and a very lovely one at that).

My family are from the East End, I took them down to the exhibition and it brought back very fond memories to them. The atmosphere in the gallery was lovely, very relaxed and very in keeping with the theme. I hope this building stays open to the public as an exhibition space.

Such a wonderful exhibition and what a beautiful building it is housed in. You must go see it!!!!

I LOVED the exhibition and completely disagree with other comments made. It is rare to see such work in a building like the compressor house. I thought the selection was perfect and complimented so well by the fantastic building. It is not supposed to be a historical archive of what was where in the east end (you can see that in a museum), but an insight into one man's East End. I highly recommend this exhibition to any David Bailey fans.

We were so looking forward to to this exhibition. IT WAS RUBBISH. Content and presentation were weak. You were given sheets of paper to guide you through, which were useless. The pictures did not have numbers or titles on them which means that you try to decipher what they are by looking through the papers. Our suggestion for seeing London as it was is to buy 'LONDONERS THROUGH THE LENS' which happens to be a Time Out publication. Absolutely brilliant. This exhibition makes one feel that The Shrimp made Bailey not the other way around.

I went to the David Bailey's East End today with my mother, and it was such a disappointment. My mother was born in the 1960's in East Ham and she wanted to see how the streets used to look like back in them days, instead we saw a man standing at a bar with tattoos. In my opinion it was a waste of time and money.