Are You Being Served?
V & A Museum of Childhood, Cambridge Heath Road,  E2 9PA
7th June 2008 until 9th November 2008
Telephone: 020 8983 5235
 
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Hackney resident and the first photographer to have a solo exhibition at the National Gallery, Tom Hunter presents his portraits of traders between Bethnal Green and central Hackney. The in-situ shopkeeper shots create a fascinating picture of the neighbourhood in which the Museum of Childhood resides. Another aspect to the project involved children from local primary schools and adults from Tower Hamlets College interviewing, photographing and drawing shopkeepers and market traders. You can see the resulting installation - a re-interpretation of the market and the corner shop - also in the exhibition.

 
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Opening Times
10:00 - 17:45 Daily
 
Ticket Prices
Free
 
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Underground Stations
Bethnal Green Tube (1 minutes)
Stepney Green Tube (12 minutes)
Railway Stations
Bethnal Green Railway Station (8 minutes)
Cambridge Heath Railway Station (8 minutes)
 
 
 
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Mosque Car Park (19 minutes)
Spitalfields Car Park (25 minutes)
 
 
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Cambridge Heath Road, Tower Hamlets,  London,  E2
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