Blood Alley c.1930 41.28/2 Made in the Bangladesh

Made in the Bangladesh

Henry Grant captured these children playing in the narrow external stairwells outside their homes in the East End

Salmon shipped in from Cordova

The battered and exhausted Britain of 1945 was desperate for workers - to rebuild

Blood Alley c.1930 41.28/2 Made in the BangladeshBlood 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.