Inspecting a telephone cable between Conduit and Maddox Streets mb-artistname Cathy Baillet Crowds milling around the market

Crowds milling around the market stalls in the run up to Christmas 1960

in front of which is a gardener working on the beds

Original: pencil and ink on paper

Interior view of the Goldsmiths' Hall on a ball night

following the Hillsborough Tragedy in April

Inspecting a telephone cable between Conduit and Maddox Streets mb-artistname Cathy Baillet Crowds milling around the marketInspecting a telephone cable between Conduit and Maddox Streets, London, 20th century. The cables are fastened to the wires by rawhide suspenders, and the man is detaching the thick dark cable from the old wire and fastening it to the new wire, which also supports him. He sits in a 'bosun's chair', consisting of a board slung by a loop at either end, fastened to the wire.