https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/01/27/homer-sykes-photographer/tenement-building-tower-hamlets-east-london-1970s-britain/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:35:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/01/27/homer-sykes-photographer/tenement-building-tower-hamlets-east-london-1970s-britain/#comment-431760 Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:35:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Tower-Hamlets-east-London-1970s-TENEMENT-BUILDING-Peabody-Housing-estate-A427003.jpg#comment-431760 I remember visiting my ‘auntie’ Amy in about 1962 to get rid of her upright piano..broken up in the street outside the tenement. All I can recalled is seeing her sitting in a small room at the landing on the first floor I think. She was a silhouette in the darkness and the air of poverty was so evident. Her husband was a docker and she had a wooden leg, we were not rich, we came from Kendal Rise, but this was a good level below us….

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