Hookey Alf of Whitechapel
£25.99Price
Meet Ted Coally, better known as 'Hookey Alf'. He started out as a trunk-maker's apprentice, then a fall from an iron ladder at the Whitechapel coal wharfs cost him his left arm, and a hook took its place. After that he hung around outside a brewery on Whitechapel Road hoping to help unload the day's coal for a meal and a few pence, and when that dried up he sold matches at a railway station. John Thomson photographed him outside an old Whitechapel inn in 1877 for Street Life in London.
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Opacity: 94%
• ISO brightness: 104%
• Paper is sourced from Japan
