Marian Monas has been painting her neighbours in Cable St, inspiring Contributing Photographer Sarah Ainslie to visit the subjects and photograph them with their pictures. You can see these paintings in a joint exhibition alongside recent pictures of France by Doreen Fletcher displayed for two days in a floating gallery at Hermitage Moorings, Wapping, this Wednesday 2nd December 10:30-5:30pm & Thursday December 3rd 10:30-7.30pm
Peter Duggan, Waterman & Lighterman
Terry Duncan, Compositor - ‘I lived in Glamis Rd as a child then I grew up and went to live in Dagenham but now I’ve come back to Cable St’
Mary Flanagan, Home Carer - ‘I was born in Wapping and have lived nine years in Cable St. I cared for my mother at home until she was ninety-five.’
Terry Page, West Ham Supporter - ‘I’ve lived forty years in Cable St. I was an electrician at Royal London Hospital then Watney Mann Brewery in Whitechapel and now I do bulk clearance.’
Joe Parker, ex-landlord of the Old House At Home in Watney St
Alicia Morrison, Housekeeper in the West End - ‘I came here from the Philippines thirty years ago and I’ve done a lot of jobs in hospitals and hotels, anything that’s legal’
Harry Parlour - ‘I’m from Bow’
Peter Duggan, Lighterman & Waterman
Photographs copyright © Sarah Ainslie
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