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Silkoff newsagents

Sent to Hidden Treasures by a member of the Silkoff family, this photograph taken in 1911, shows Isaac Silkoff’s newsagents at 53 Brick Lane, in the heart of the Jewish East End of London. Young Leah and Reuben Silkoff are standing outside their father’s shop.