"These images date from late 1966, on my first real visit to London, when I was introduced to Petticoat Lane, which, as a lad from Manchester, completely bowled me over both culturally and visually. The sequence represents my intuitive response to individuals and their immediate surroundings. The work has never been seen or published, but thankfully I kept the negatives, all taken on a Hasselblad borrowed from Derby School of Art. Under different circumstances there would have been more images, but 120 roll film was expensive for a student living on a maintenance grant of three hundred pounds a year."