Bishopsgate Surrealism

Before the completion of the Crossrail Line the Victorian arched spaces supporting former railway lines were claimed on Sundays by sundry traders of junk.

Second hand goods for sale at Shoreditch High Street and Broadgate, 2001

The wind up gramophone was made during the era of surrealism (unless it is a discarded modern replica) and provides a musical fanfare for the unlikely couple sporting bananas and guns. They gaze out to the pavement at the junction of Shoreditch High Street and Broadgate.

Street sale of second hand goods, 2001

A man stands guard (above) over a pavement sale of clothes, paint, sandals and magazines at the junction of Shoreditch High Street and Broadgate. A few supermarket trolleys also provide goods of a quality to high to be displayed on the pavement.

Discarded food debris at the junction of Shoreditch High Street and Broadgate, 2002

The discarded food debris (above) and the other photographs together summarise aspects of Sundays in Spitalfields.