'You received things...accommodation, a sack of coal every month and £10 a year.'
Photographer Jim Grover has documented the fascinating history of the Trinity Homes Almshouse Jim Grover had often wondered what lay behind the blue doors on Brixton’s busy Acre Lane in London. They seemed to always be shut, yet the flickering of lights and fleeting shadows in windows suggested there was some sort of presence. The social documentary photographer had stumbled upon the building while researching almshouses – charitable homes provided for the ‘financially needy’ – in the area.
‘I’m in my sixties,’ Jim says. ‘And I’m inspired by these people in their seventies and eighties doing so much in their life and in their community. They have really joyful, inspiring stories. ‘We all think we lead very ordinary lives. But I’ve learned that everyone’s life is extraordinary. My role as a documentary photographer is to tease that extraordinary aspect out of people, and to make them proud of what they’ve done.
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