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Photographer Mike Abrahams in North London:

Three legged race. Community festival. 

Queens Crescent market 

Queens Crescent market

Queens Crescent market

Queens Crescent market

Queens Crescent market

Elderly woman in her kitchen. 

Elderly woman feeding the pigeons

Pigeon fancier with his lofts.

Elderly man uses a ladder to tie his laces. 

Pensioners' Christmas party. 

Woman voting at residents association meeting

Kentish Town Public Laundy. Prince of Wales Baths

At home in the back kitchen

Pensioners' day centre offering lunch and company to the elderly

London Transport worker getting into his car on his way to work.

Friends waiting for their pigeons to return to the loft in their garden

Pigeon fanciers bringing their birds to the drop off point to be picked up and delivered to the start.
[Photos © Mike Abrahams]

It's fair to say the area's gone through quite some gentrification over the last 50 years.

Abrahams' latest book, This Was Then:

This Was Then is the first career-spanning book by one of the UK’s most significant documentary photographers. Shot across Britain over three decades, in the years before and after Margaret Thatcher’s time in government, This Was Then brilliantly captures seemingly small moments of everyday life that tell a far bigger story of Britain during this time. Abrahams’ photographs demonstrate his unerring ability to capture “ordinary people living extraordinary lives”.