“I don’t know. Kids get funny ideas in their heads. They do strange things.”
– Terry on the Fence by Bernard Ashley, London, 1975
In 1973, Simon Pope took these pictures of children in East London. His work is now yours to own via Cafe Royal books.
If you recognise yourself or anyone you knew from back then, please get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.
And was that your 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 parked in Bethnal Green by the prefab housing? Did you drink at the now long-gone General Stave pub on Bridport Place; hang out on the Colville estate; live on Dove Road in Islington by the Popham estate; see that poster on Dunston Road; or ride your Chopper in Haggerston while your mates sat on the boot of a Renault 4?
Were you Batman?
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