East End Photographs and Drawings

[East london Me]

Hello, I'm a newcomer and have enjoyed reading the threads on this forum immensely and finally joined up. Here's a photo of Father Christmas trying to break in to the corner shop on Crispin Street, Spitalfields in 2013:



Here's a photo of the back of the Ten Bells:

[avvie]

Avvie,
Your 3rd photograph captioned "Old London, circa 1870, photographer unknown", is in fact a photograph of Glasgow.
The photograph was taken by a famous Glasgow photographer Thomas Annan.

Link attached.

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1...-annan-thomas/

Thankyou! Always nice to know where these photos are taken

[barnflatwyngarde]

Whitechapel 1905



Mitre Tavern, Hatton Garden. City of London



Old London, circa 1870, photographer unknown

Avvie,
Your 3rd photograph captioned "Old London, circa 1870, photographer unknown", is in fact a photograph of Glasgow.
The photograph was taken by a famous Glasgow photographer Thomas Annan.

Link attached.

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O182730/close-no-193-high-st-photograph-annan-thomas/

[MrBarnett]

Nicholas,

Here's an image from the corner of Winthrop Street looking south. Can't quite see your place, but I thought it might be of interest.

Gary.

[Robert]

Ah, phone directory lists him as a hairdresser. There till 1984, maybe longer.

[Robert]

Hi Nicolas

This might possibly be the Harry who was listed in the 1964 voting register. I think he'd been there since at least 1954. His middle name may have been 'Lewis' and he may have owned a second home elsewhere in London.

[avvie]

A night time view,if the poster doesn't mind.

Really well done!

[harry]

A night time view,if the poster doesn't mind.

[Harry D]

Fantastic name for a shop.

[Nicolas]

When we dismantled the chicken shop signage, this old painted signage fascia came to light...Does anyone remember 'Harry's'? What could be purchased from there? And when was this? As we built a new shopfront and fascia, I specifically requested for 'Harry's' to be preserved and not removed. It lies behind, dormant and intact...

[Nicolas]

Looking back towards Whitechapel. Frightening to witness that this is not so long ago. Demolitions and destruction of entire neighbourhoods and their character certainly can't all be blamed on the Blitz...
The entrance to Winthrop Street was still on the right hand side and there was no sign of Sainsburys or the Idea store yet.

[Nicolas]

Brady Street in 1979. No. 1 had the 'Players' swing sign. Was this a tuck shop?

[Nicolas]

The building as it is now...

[Nicolas]

The building as it was a year and a half ago...a rat-infested dilapidated chicken shop

[Nicolas]

1 Brady Street

Hello, I'm new here but I'm not to new to the subject or indeed the area... My partner and I have just finished saving an old building on Brady Street from dereliction and neglect and made it our home as well as refurbishing the shop below and returning its external aspect to what it may have looked like when it was built. We also have a direct view onto the train tracks at the rear, the old school and more or less, the spot where Polly was found on Bucks Row.
Being very excited by all this, I am calling upon the experts amongst this forum and would ask them to rattle their brains to help me if you can...
I am trying to find old photos of Brady Street (the segment between Whitechapel Road and the corner with Bucks Row/Durward Street where the Roebuck pub once stood). I am also trying to find out anything about our building, situated at no.1. Early phone directories indicate that there was a succession of hairdressers there, Thomas Walker Desormeaux (1895 and possibly already at the time of Jack the Ripper) and later, Max Keppelovitz around 1914 to 1921. What follows is a mystery. When we redid the shopfront, we uncovered an original hand painted fascia 'Harry's'. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Does anyone know what was sold there, when this was? I have heard from a lady in Limehouse that she thinks there was a maltese massage parlour at one point in the 1960s. A photograph from 1979 indicates a Players cigarettes swing sign which might suggest there was a sweet shop/newsagents by that time? We have hung a new swing sign on the original, restored bracket.
I will now try and insert a few photos below. Any help, memory jogging, photos or rumours are highly welcome