David Hoffman Photo Library | The bulldozers move in on one of the last remaining shops in Hessel St, Whitechapel. Around 1972.

Solly Grannatt in the doorway of his jewellers’s shop

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The bulldozers move in on one of the last remaining shops in Hessel St, Whitechapel. Around 1972.

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The Express shoe repair shop off Commercial Street in Shoreditch. Around 1972.

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