A street trader with a bit of character - stall holders like this top hatted gent in Petticoat Lane Market in 1966 were the lifeblood of a trade that has largely been lost… the-east-end.co.uk/petticoat-lane… #eastend#history
The Bethnal Green Museum was founded in 1872 and since 1974, has been known as the V&A Museum of Childhood. It reopened a year ago on 1st July 2023, (and has been ‘reimagined’ as Young V&A) - I just hope it’s as good as it used to be… #eastend#childhood
A thought for all my many followers today - despite our media's prevalence for gloomy news (and boy oh boy does it get ME down) - try to live your life as if you were in the first car rather than the third... #eastend#history#humour
The Clare Hall pub in Stepney. By 1983, it had been renamed ‘The Pride of Stepney’ - but as we all know, pride comes before a fall, and it closed its doors in 1999 and is now a fried chicken takeaway... #Eastend#pubs#History
Lord Boothby, Ronnie Kray and Leslie Holt. Holt was a cat burglar and bisexual who Boothby took a fancy to and plied with gifts. Their homosexual relationship was kept out of the papers at the time with the Sunday Mirror retracting both its statement and this photograph… #eastend
