The Thames at Millbank 18th century 50.82/1115 Henry Grant captured these children

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

as ships grew larger and numerous seamen's strikes and the advent of containerisation decimated the docks

and was interested in photographing older architecture and locations

as it looked from nave the morning after it had been gutted by incendiary bombs from a Nazi air attack

The Thames at Millbank 18th century 50.82/1115 Henry Grant captured these childrenThe Thames at Millbank. Oil on canvas. This view shows Sullivan's boat building yard and a group of houses at the Millbank stairs, from where a ferry operated to Vauxhall. On Surrey shore, the houses stretch as far as Vauxhall and in the distance is Lambeth Palace with the dome of St Paul's beyond.