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Description: | This photograph shows Alice Brooks standing outside her grocery shop in Well Street, Hackney, with her son Hyman. Alice (n��e Petlock) came to England from Bialystock, Poland in about 1896, aged 15. She married the English-born Morris Brooks, who worked as a wood-carver, making walking sticks. Mrs Brooks started out selling from her home in Weaver Street, in the East End, and later opened a dairy in Petherton Road, Stoke Newington. After Mr Brooks died in 1926, Alice set up an embroidery factory, and in 1932 she opened the grocery shop in Well Street. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Jewish Museum, London | Rights holder: | Copyright holder unknown. | Subjects: | work Migration and Citizenship Communities | Temporal: | 1932-1935 | Source: | Jewish Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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