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A billboard paster works to complete an advert in Chalk Farm Road, Camden (negative)
Grant, Henry
1957
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A black builder poses for the camera during the topping out of new flats in Treby Street, Mile End (negative)
Grant, Henry
C. 1960
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A black female student works on a dressmaker's mannequin at Southgate Technical College (negative)
Grant, Henry
1974
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A boy and a policeman on 'Petticoat Lane', East London (silver gelatin print)
Mayne, Roger
1956
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A boy cycles past a shop selling leather goods in Portland Town (silver gelatin print)
Monck, Margaret, Monck, Margaret
1937
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A boy flies a kite on the summit of Parliament Hill, Hampstead Heath (negative)
Grant, Henry
C. 1955
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