Blood Alley c.1930 Christmas A high-explosive bomb exploded in

A high-explosive bomb exploded in the escalator machinery room

The scene shows a full range of sheds and two-storeyed market buildings

He took this photo of Bow Lane in the late 1920s

The painting May Morning

this wooden pirate ship toy is sure to encourage and stimulate lots of imaginative play

Blood Alley c.1930 Christmas A high-explosive bomb exploded inBlood Alley' in the West India Docks, circa 1930. This photograph was taken at the North Quay, West India Docks and shows a gang of dockers trucking bags of sugar beneath an awning of washed sacks that are hung out for drying at. Blood Alley' was the nickname given to roadway between the transit sheds and sugar warehouses because handling the sacks of sticky West Indian sugar badly chafed and cracked the dockers skin.