STUART FREEDMAN: THE ENGLISHMAN AND THE EEL Signed/Unsigned:unsigned ‘Here are Bruce Gilden’s people

‘Here are Bruce Gilden’s people

from the early links with the Romantics

Running throughout the work is an extraordinarily sensual and sumptuous quality that is wonderfully tactile and seductive

bottles and fireworks were thrown

STUART FREEDMAN: THE ENGLISHMAN AND THE EEL Signed/Unsigned:unsigned ‘Here are Bruce Gilden’s peopleSTUART FREEDMAN The Englishman & the Eel is a journey into that most London of institutions, the Eel, Pie and Mash shop. Today, these simple spaces hold within them the memories of a rich, largely undocumented cultural heritage of generations of working class Londoners in a city whose only constant is change. Stuart Freedman grew up in East London in the 1970s, then a byword for poverty now a metaphor for gentrification. The streets were navigated by