My flat on Leytonstone High Road is steps away from the birthplace of Alfred Hitchcock. He is celebrated locally with a collection of fantastic mosaics along the walkways to Leytonstone Underground station. These mosaics are marvellous, clever in their depiction of characters and places, skilled in design and use of colour. This morning, the view from my flat was blurred with fog, edges softened, timeless, by the time I'd walked to the station this had cleared to become a dull December day.
This work is called The Hitchcock Gallery, opened May 3rd, 2001. The gallery celebrates the life and work of the great film-maker Alfred Hitchcock, born in Leytonstone on 13th August 1899. The mosaics were made at The Greenwich Mural Workshop.
Young Alfred by his father's shop
Number 17
The Pleasure Garden
Hitchcock the Director
Strangers on a Train
Psycho
Vertigo
Suspicion
The Skin Game
North by Northwest
The Birds
Saboteur
To Catch a Thief
Hitchcock with Dietrich
Rear Window
Rebecca
The Wrong Man
