From between 1963 and 1969, Steve Lewis, a former photographer for The Sun and the Newham Recorder, captured the East End in all its dilapidated glory. He tilted his lens towards everything from the era's bomb-site reconstruction to its political graffiti daubed across walls east of the City and north of the Thames, the area traditionally considered to be the East End. Here are some of his photographs...
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| Leslie Lucking combined the roles of Lollipop lady and mother to her daughter Tracey. |
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| In a halfway home in Newham. |
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| Alfred Davies had been delivering milk from this handcart to homes in Forest Gate for over thirty years. |
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| Sisters Rose Walsham & Susan Lawrence, lifelong customers at the Duke of Fife. |
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| Street trader selling vegetables in Barking. |
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