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Phil Maxwell: Boy on a bike, Brick Lane c.1983.
Spitalfields Market traders, 1990 © (Jackson/Davies Photographic Collection, Bishopsgate Library)
Phil Maxwell: Anti racist demonstration on Brick Lane c.1992
Linda Wilkinson and friend on Columbia Road, 1950's © Linda Wilkinson
Sandys Row looking South from Artillery Lane. Photograph by C. A. Mathew, 1912 (London Collection, Bishopsgate Library)
Arthur Harding as a boy (Raphael Samuel Archive, Bishopsgate Library)
Three illustrated talks, presented with the Spitalfields Life blog, that delve into the Bishopsgate Library archives to show pictures from the area. The photographers presenting their work are Steve Lewis (Oct 28), who documented east London's gritty reality during the 'swinging' sixties and Bob Mazzer (Nov 20), whose photographs of the fashions on display on the London Underground during the eighties are a refreshing slice of London history.
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