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