More rummaging through my archives I came across this photo of an early painting... I was amazed to see that the Dockers Shelter at Redriff Road in Bermondsey still exists today. In the 1950s and 60's when I worked in Surrey Docks crowds of dockers filled the road waiting for the timber ships to come in and at lunchtime a van with a hatch served tea. I must have painted this early morning as it's very quiet! The painting has a slight feel of doom about it, the dockers awaiting their fate, a whole world about to change drastically and irrevocably.
The shelter as it is today with a colourful mural painted along the back.
For more information about this shelter and the mural click here.
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