Walkway Play

A girl bounces a ball as she plays on a walkway outside her flat in a crowded Victorian mansion block in the East End. She is watched by a woman and a toddler and there are three women chatting on the walkway above hers. Laundry hangs from the line, London, circa 1964 Gallery: Leisure

Outdoor Learning

A young boys reads a book as he sits on the roof of a car that has been totally stripped and left on a bomb-site. Dead tree branches and detritus cover the wheel arches of the car - all that is left of it is the metal frame. The boy concentrates on the book and holds another in his arms. in the background are several burned-out vehicles, derelict and occupied houses, East End of London circa 1964 Gallery: Leisure

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Happy Teens

Teenaged girls of diverse ethnicity smile and react to the camera as they exit a building in the East End: a young man with his back to the viewer leans on a metal barrier, London circa 1964 Gallery: Leisure

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Streets in the Sky

A young woman holds a pram containing a baby wearing a bonnet; she looks away from camera at two small children running along an exterior walkway outside a Peabody block of flats in East London. There is washing drying on lines hanging above the walkway railings in front of the flats; London, circa Spring 1964 Gallery: Post-War London

Exit Through the Sun-Roof

Two young boys play in an abandoned and gutted motor car on a demolition site in London’s East End. One boy is climbing out of the missing roof panel: in the background other stripped vehicles lay abandoned in front of terraces of WWII bomb-damaged houses; London, circa 1964 Gallery: Post-War London

Aldgate Bus Stop

A queue of people in winter clothes start boarding a bus at a stop outside Aldgate East underground station that serves routes 10, 25 and 32 heading to Whitechapel, Mile End, Bow and Stratford. Women carry large handbags: several people stare at the camera with a weary look; London, circa Spring 1964 Gallery: Post-War London

Rear Window

Two young boys play in an abandoned and gutted motor car on a demolition site in London’s East End. One boy stares out of the missing rear window at the viewer: in the background boarded up and empty terraces of WWII bomb-damaged houses sit beside new low-rise blocks of flats; London, circa 1964 Gallery: Post-War London

Tea Tea Tea

An older woman looks at the camera in front of a boarded-up Lyons Tea shop in the East End. She wears a headscarf and a heavy winter coat with winter boots; London, circa Spring 1964 Gallery: Portraits

Pearly Group

Two young pearly queens with beehive hairstyles pose with other pearly kings and queens at a social function in the East End of London, circa 1964 Gallery: Leisure

Pearly Queens

The pearly queens of Stoke Newington and Bethnal Green show off the backs of their outfits and their luxurious plumed hats during a social function in London’s East End, circa 1964 Gallery: Leisure

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Pearly Kings Discuss

A pearly king wearing a Hammers rosette stands next to a pearly king seated in a chair at an East End social function, east London, circa 1964 Gallery: Leisure

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Marijuana Boys

Two young men conduct a drugs transaction in the street in the East End of London, circa 1962 Gallery: Counterculture

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Pearly Royalty

A Pearly King and Queen look on with disapproval as two women chat in the street, East London, circa 1964 Gallery: Leisure

Arnold Wesker and script

British author, dramatist and poet Arnold Wesker sits and studies paperwork: he also holds a cigarette, England, circa 1962 Gallery: Arts and Culture

Arnold Wesker

British author, dramatist and poet Arnold Wesker drinks tea whilst being interviewed by an unseen male. He leans forward in his chair and looks off-camera, circa 1962 Gallery: Portraits

Soup kitchen volunteer

A volunteer worker hands a cup of tea to a homeless man queueing in a soup kitchen. Shot from behind, the volunteer also has a pile of bread and empty mugs in front of him Gallery: Working Life

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Soup kitchen

Some homeless men wait outside a soup kitchen venue, possibly a church. One man appears to have a black eye Gallery: Working Life

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Catholic Priest

A Catholic priest wearing a black biretta talks to an elderly man wearing a flat cap in a bombed-out street in the East End of London: in the background is a GB Hicks Ltd. lorry Gallery: Working Life