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I started off with the best place I could think of which was The British Library, got myself a year’s membership and spent a day trying to find books on pictures of Essex in 1980’s. Firstly I wasn’t sure about the titles and when I did get hold of few books names that I thought would be useful the waiting time was 2 days to 2 weeks. I would have waited up to 2weeks knowing the books I would get would have all the right pictures but it was pretty risky. So I decided to visit a local library which was Stratford library. Lucky I found exactly what I wanted from the reference section. I had to make an appointment for me to look through the folders containing the pictures and was permitted to bring a long a digital camera to take pictures of the pictures they had.

After making an appointment visited the Stratford library again and this time I managed to get some pictures. The library containing about 200 folders of pictures cover a very large area. Now the area is known as Newham but in olden days it was a part of Essex. The Library had an index of folders which was very useful and helped me make my notes. I randomly took 50-60 pictures as I was only looking forward working towards 10 of them. While doing my library research I was also doing my internet research. How other people have developed their ideas and their style of manipulation. All of this can be seen in my sketch book.