Christ Church Newgate Street 1941 IN9171 Ink and watercolour over pencil

Ink and watercolour over pencil

one of many in the West India Docks

The Lord and Lady of May can be seen on the left hand side (the 'Lady' may in fact be a man) and also a rough hurdy-gurdy player and other disreputable characters in the throng

established a number of successful businesses including cafe restaurants

which brilliantly illuminates an essential and much-misunderstood chapter of our history

Christ Church Newgate Street 1941 IN9171 Ink and watercolour over pencilChrist Church, Newgate Street. Incendiary bombs gutted Christ Church during the Blitz. Impression of east end of church, built by Wren, as it looked from nave the morning after it had been gutted by incendiary bombs from a Nazi air attack. Viewed from the nave, this painting shows the east end of the church as it looked the morning after the attack. Because of the Pastoral Reorganisation Measure in 1949, a number of the City parishes amalgamated,