Photograph - The Book Box
Object
Photograph
Production date
10/2010
Object number
2023.9
Physical Description
Print of a photo of two women and a child outside of a blue bookshop. The woman on the left is carrying the child in her arms. They are stood next to a chalk sandwich board with writing on it. Part of a photo series by Colin O'Brien.
Object history
The shop featured in this photo is The Bookbox, a bookshop selling books for both adults and children. In this image, the shop is at 53 Chatsworth Road. The shop has also been located at 68 Chatsworth Road.
This photo is part of a series that featured in the exhibition ‘Last of the Real High Streets’ held in 2010 at Chats Palace, an arts centre and theatre in Hackney. The exhibition captured the changing shops and communities on Chatsworth Road, and included the stories of people written by travel writer Jane Egginton.
This photo is part of a series that featured in the exhibition ‘Last of the Real High Streets’ held in 2010 at Chats Palace, an arts centre and theatre in Hackney. The exhibition captured the changing shops and communities on Chatsworth Road, and included the stories of people written by travel writer Jane Egginton.
Associated Organisation
Chats Palace (Featured)
Associated Person
Colin O'Brien (Photographer)
Jane Egginton (Writer)
Jane Egginton (Writer)
Associated Place
Chatsworth Road (Place)
Material
photo
Dimension
Length: 482mm
Width: 329mm
Width: 329mm
Exhibition Label
From the exhibition 'Last of the Real High Streets' at Chats Palace [8 October - 27 November 2010].
Book Box
The owners of the bookshop, the Book Box, live above the shop. Downstairs is a ceramics cafe, where customers can paint their own pottery while indulging in ice cream, cup cakes and milkshakes. It was an old fashioned barbers before it became a book shop and before that was Vanderbilt, the butchers.
Book Box
The owners of the bookshop, the Book Box, live above the shop. Downstairs is a ceramics cafe, where customers can paint their own pottery while indulging in ice cream, cup cakes and milkshakes. It was an old fashioned barbers before it became a book shop and before that was Vanderbilt, the butchers.
Credit line
Image ⓒ Colin O'Brien
Exhibition label text ⓒ Jane Egginton
Exhibition label text ⓒ Jane Egginton
On display?
No
Inscription
The Book Box
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