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Description: | Roger Mayne photographed this group of West Indian men walking along Southam Street in the North Kensington district. The writer Colin MacInnes referred to this image, describing 'the melancholy, graceful West Indians, stepping out on a cautiously carefree prowl'.
Newly arrived West Indian immigrants settled in and around Southam. The deprivation of the area, together with the influx of migrants, led to serious racial disturbance later that decade.
Mayne produced a unique 'labour of love' photographic series on Southam Street between 1956 and 1961. The slum street was declared unfit for human habitation in 1963 and demolished in 1968-9. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | �� Roger Mayne | Subjects: | Communities Cityscape | Temporal: | 1956 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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