An artist with links to the Parisian avant-garde, and a friend of Eduardo Paolozzi, Nigel Henderson lived in Bethnal Green for a short while after the war, where he "fell back in love with photography". Nigel Henderson's Streets: Photographs of London's East End 1949-53 has just come out from Tate Publishing:
Silhouette, bomb damage.
Children playing in the street.
Children playing in the street.
Boys outside W&F Riley newsagent, 76 Cleveland Way, Bethnal Green.
S Lavner, newsagent and tobacconist, 241 Bethnal Green Rd.
Barrel organ, Bethnal Green Rd.
Junk market, off Virginia Rd, Bethnal Green.
Kendow the strongman, wasteland off Petticoat Lane, Spitalfields.
[Photos © Estate of Nigel Henderson]
From the Tate and Spitalfields Life.
Mick Hartley 
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