East end london

There’s very little as rewarding as exploring, discovering and learning about the city you live in. Over time, you begin to pick up on the visual clues that let you know you’re home; those features that make your city, well, your city. East London is a particularly fascinating place, changing so rapidly that not a day […]

In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London

At the corner of Sandys Row and Frying Pan Alley, a predominantly Jewish community in Spitalfields, 20 April, 1912.

Spitalfields 1986

The technicolour images taken between 1960 and 1980 give an intimate portrayal of East London, and have been published for the first time after they were discovered at Tower Hamlets archive centre.

Chris Dorley-Brown composes ultra-sharp photographs from multiple exposures. Although the subjects were all there, they may not have been present at the same time

Spitafields Market, 1973

The four-storey property in London's Spitalfields is said to include 'wonderful studio space' with 'an abundance of natural light'. Glass partitions have been used to create a series of private offices.

Brixton, London

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London's East End.

Walworth Road Walworth South East London England in the 1980's

1960’s Aesthetic

In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London

Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane.

The technicolour images taken between 1960 and 1980 give an intimate portrayal of East London, and have been published for the first time after they were discovered at Tower Hamlets archive centre.

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