Old UK

Black and White Photographs of Life in London in the 1970s

These pictures are a selection from those taken in the five years between 1973 and 1978, when Tony Bock lived in the East End working as a photographer for the East London Advertiser. “Britain in the nineteen seventies never seemed comfortable with itself,” Tony admitted to Spitalfields Life, “caught between the post-war years that hung on too long and the late twentieth century that seemed late in arriving.”

At the E1 Festival, Stepney
Train departing Liverpool St Station
In Watney Market
At The White Swan, Poplar
At J.Kelly, Pie & Mash, Bethnal Green
At The Royal Oak, Bethnal Green
Demolition at Tiller Rd, Isle of Dogs
Clown at Stratford Broadway
Saturday night out, Dagenham
Wapping Stairs
Boy with a gun and his sister, Pearl St, Wapping
Commercial Docks, Rotherhithe
Children playing in Poplar
Corner Shop, Sidney St