Blood Alley c.1930 41.28/2 It is closely related to

It is closely related to Whistler's 'Nocturne: Blue and Gold - Old Battersea Bridge' but does not achieve the Japanese qualities that Whistler sought with his use of limited tones and simple shapes

some of whom are shown wearing election favours and waving flags for the different sides

and Aquascutum

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

with astonishing topographical detail

Blood Alley c.1930 41.28/2 It is closely related toBlood 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.