rthur Edwards is an original Eastender, raised in Stepney, East London, his dad a lorry driver – also called Arthur – his beloved mum Dorothy running the family home. He left school at 15 and when Arthur senior died a year later and Dorothy went to work as an office cleaner to put food on the table, she made an inspired purchase that would transform her son’s life. “She didn’t want me to end up working in the docks like most of my schoolmates, so she saved up to buy me a £46 Rolleiflex camera. That was a fortune to her; I don’t know how she did it,” recalls Arthur junior, now 82 years old and celebrating
