These photographs only hint at the breathtaking beauty of the place.
Fashion Street East London
October 14, 2016
Fashion Street 1992
This family (abova) are walking past the former ‘Moorish Market’ designed and built in 1905 by entrepreneurs Abraham and Woolf Davis as a retail arcade in an unusual oriental style, with horseshoe arches. It was a commercial failure and changed to industrial use in 1909. It was empty and in disrepair for many years and was restored in 2003 for business use.
Woman walking into Fashion Street from Brick Lane, 1983
Woman walking past a wall covered in graffiti, Fashion Street 2008
Youth on Fashion Street, 2010
Fashion Street 2014
Fashion Street. London 2004
Fashion Street 2014
Woman with trolley walking down Fashion Street, 2010
Fashion Street 2015
Unexpected In Brick Lane
October 13, 2016
Brick Lane is full of the unexpected. The junction of Brick Lane and Quaker Street seems to attract unusual compositions. What is now a clothes shop called ‘Religion’ used to be a coffee shop and before that a pub. The sheep (below) is from Spitalfields farm. The photograph was taken from Quaker Street looking into Brick Lane.
Sheep on Brick Lane & Quaker Street junction, 2002
About twenty years earlier I photographed the boy with the stick (below) from the opposite angle in Brick Lane. He is standing where the sheep is in the 2002 photograph.
Boy with a stick outside a pub on Brick Lane, 1983
Below is a translucent window facing Brick Lane photographed from inside the pub.
Brick Lane pub window advertising Trumans Brewery, 1983
The appearance of this man and his dogs on Brick Lane in 2003 excited my attention. After following him for some time on the other side of the road I was able to cross over and get the shot below. The incongruity of it all is what appealed to me.
Man walking dogs on Brick Lane, 2003
At the time I was preparing twenty years of Brick Lane photographs for an exhibition which was launched in the Brick House in Brick Lane. The man and his dogs made it into the show at the last minute and subsequently brought the dogs into the exhibition!
Opening of ‘Brick Lane’ at the Brick House, 2003
The dogs (below) had their own private view a week after the launch of the exhibition.
Dogs at the Brick Lane exhibition, 2003
Brick Lane 2003
Brick Lane c.1998
Brick Lane 1999
Brick Lane 1999
Brick Lane launderette 1983
Brick Lane 2016
Brick Lane 1984
Shropshire Hills (2)
October 12, 2016
Here are some more Shropshire Hills, this time in Black & White.
Shropshire Hills 2016
Shropshire Hills 2016
Shropshire Hills 2016
Shropshire Hills 2016
Shropshire Hills 2016
Shropshire Hills 2016
Shropshire Hills 2016
Shropshire Hills 2016
Shropshire Hills 2016
Shropshire Hills 2016
Shropshire Hills 2016
The Shropshire Hills
October 11, 2016
The Shropshire Hills provide a dramatic link between the Midlands and the Welsh mountains. Centuries of farming have shaped the landscape. Designated as an Area Of Outstanding Natural Beauty 70% of it is grazing land, and below the moorland and rough grass hilltops and commons lies a patchwork of fields rich in hedgerows and veteran trees. Ancient woodlands, wildflower meadows and orchards also survive, each habitat with its characteristic wildlife plants and invertebrates. Red grouse, skylark and dormouse are among the great variety of birds and mammals.
On The Bus In East London
October 10, 2016
For me the bus is an extension of the street. East London buses are always full of life.
An old route-master bus on Mile End Road c.1988
Mile End 2007
Whiitechapel 2015
Whitechapel 2015
Aldgate 2015
Whitechapel 2015
Whiitechapel 2015
Mile End 2007
Whitechapel 2015
East India Dock Road 1985
