East End Photographs and Drawings

[Mycroft]

Excellent pictures.It's amazing how traces of the past still remain, if you look closely enough for them.

[Natalie Severn]

Love the one of the Ten Bells Andrew-----and Woods Buildings is sensationally spooky! Great photos.

[Andrew Firth]

Love the one of the Ten Bells Andrew-----and Woods Buildings is sensationally spooky! Great photos.

Thanks! Here's a few more from last weekend....

The Verde & Co shop on Brushfield Street


A nice old bollard on Commercial Street


Frying Pan Alley is rather disappointing these days. Nothing from Jack's time remains, only the name.


Old warehouses on Gower's Walk


The view from inside the Prospect of Whitby pub in Wapping


A view of Thrawl Street taken standing next to the Sheraz restaurant, formerly the Frying Pan pub. You can see the other end of the original street off in the distance.


A very wet Toynbee Street with the entrance to Dorset/Duval street just beyond the car park.


A general view towards the Prospect of Whitby pub in Wapping


The tell tale signs of the old wall that used to stand at the end of the Wentworth Dwellings, stopping anyone from falling into the cellar recesses.


Finally, a doorway in Whites Row


All the best
Andrew

[Monty]

There was a recess in Goulston Street Andrew?

Who told you that?

Great shots....lovely infact.

Monty

[Andrew Firth]

There was a recess in Goulston Street Andrew?

Who told you that?

Great shots....lovely infact.

Monty

Ah, some bloke with a pipe...

Thanks for the compliments, you'll be seeing some of those pics again, in some book or other about that London Job thingy.

Andrew

[AdamWalsh]

Great pics from everyone!

Andrew - I went to The Prospect Of Whitby for the first time 2 weeks ago - absolutely loved it! My seat looked out over the Thames to Docklands, it was quite glorious!!

[Andrew Firth]

Adam,

It was my first time inside the pub too. I'd walked past a couple of times before, and had also had a quick look down the passageway at the side of the pub, to admire the view of the Thames....



All the best
Andrew

[Archaic]

The Prospect of Death...

A word to the wise not to short-change the bartender of The Prospect of Whitby?

Lovely photos; thank you.

Best regards,
Archaic

[John Bennett]

Don't really know if I can post a request but here goes. Do any of you have a picture of St. Judes church on Commercial Street - I'm not sure when the church was demolished but Google images doesn't come up with anything?

This photo was taken in the 1920s and is looking south towards Gardiner's Corner..

[Stephen Thomas]

The Prospect of Death...

A word to the wise not to short-change the bartender of The Prospect of Whitby?

Hi Archaic

On the JTR sites it's all Spitalfieds this and Spitalfields that, but actually the real East End action was round the docks down Wapping way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_of_Whitby

Here are Wapping Old Stairs just down the road

And they are still there

[Scott Nelson]

Are those stairs Tom Sadler would have climbed?

[Stephen Thomas]

Are those stairs Tom Sadler would have climbed?

I don't think so but they certainly were in the general vicinity.

[Septic Blue]

The view from inside the Prospect of Whitby pub in Wapping
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I don't believe that the steeple of the Parish Church of St. Paul Shadwell could be more precisely centered than it is, within this window-view.

Was it the window on the right, or the one on the left, when entering the pub, Andrew?

I have sat inside the pub, with the window on the left (when entering) immediately behind me; whilst trying to convince some people who had joined me, at that rather large table, that the Prospect of Whitby was actually in Shadwell, not Wapping. They didn't believe me.

[Andrew Firth]

I don't believe that the steeple of the Parish Church of St. Paul Shadwell could be more precisely centered than it is, within this window-view.

Was it the window on the right, or the one on the left, when entering the pub, Andrew?

I have sat inside the pub, with the window on the left (when entering) immediately behind me; whilst trying to convince some people who had joined me, at that rather large table, that the Prospect of Whitby was actually in Shadwell, not Wapping. They didn't believe me.

Colin,

It was the bay window on the right as you enter the pub. I have to be honest, and admit that the dead centre placing of the spire, and the lamp, was all just down to a fluke. I happened to sit at the right place in the pub, and rested my camera on the table in front of me in just the right place.

I can believe that the pub is in Shadwell. The area I think of as Wapping, is about ten minutes walk in a westerly direction from the Prospect of Whitby.

All the best
Andrew

[WARSPITE]

I found some old negatives last wednesday of shots I took around the East End in 1990 - got them developed in the good old-fashioned way, and even I haven't seen these for 20 years.

Brushfield Street
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Woods Buildings (complete with staggering man in distance|)
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And several of Durward Street.
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Ah! what memories. I remember them well John, even that Durward St mattress brings a tear of nostalgia. Them were the days; its a little selfish of me but I preferred it then. Even if Woods Buildings always did stink of piss.