Chris Kelly’s Cable St Gardeners In Colour

Artillery Passage 1984 by Philip Marriage Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tour of Spitalfields Photographer Chris Kelly returned to Cable St Community Gardens to take these vibrant portraits of the gardeners in 2012. Previously, Chris made a set of portraits in black and white which became an exhibition and a book back in 2005. Jane Sill – I hope to grow more vegetables in future. Other plants have taken over the space, especially poppies. They remind me of my grandfather who was wounded and left for dead of the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1st July, 1916. He survived, was nursed in France and eventually brought back to this country. The Tibetan prayer flags were brought back from Lhasa by a friend. Ray Newton – There are more younger people in the gardens now and more flowers. I’m still growing mainly vegetables. We’ve had a plague of snails this year because of the wet weather. I’m kept busy with my work as secretary of the History of Wapping Trust, I give talks…