East End Photographs and Drawings

[Ben]

Hi Observer,

Difficult to say for certain, but Rob Clack mentioned on a previous thread that there's a good chance that it was. It could even be the same one (?).

Best regards,
Ben

[Chava]

Great pix! Thanks all!

So they didn't build along the street line when they redeveloped Dorset St? Or did they. It's hard to tell from what I can see. I have been there a couple of times but not for a while.

As for the Queen's Head, that might have been the fixture, or more likely, since the original would have been gaslight, it replaced that fixture. I also wonder if there would have been a gaslight over the entrance door. I think I've seen that on some Victorian pubs.

[Paddy Goose]

Cooperative Wholesale Society on Leman St.

[Sam Flynn]

Cooperative Wholesale Society on Leman St.

...where a one-bedroom "Berkeley Apartment" can be bought for £485,000 and a "luxury" three-bedroom flat is a snip at £1,850,000. No wonder the economy is in such a god-awful mess.

[Paddy Goose]

Quite, Sam. At least it's not demolished.

Oak doors, Cannuco kitchens. You can view a video ad for this luxe place. Then ring the sales office

Paddy

[Sam Flynn]

Quite, Sam. At least it's not demolished.

True enough, Paddy. The problem is, we could have kept these flats "un-demolished" for 150K each or less, were it not for the unquenchable hedonism of the British housing market, fed by the obscenely inflated wages of the yuppie classes, witnessed over the past three decades.

[John Bennett]

I think this is from about 1900.

It's Brick Lane looking south - Osborn Place is to the left and the barely distinguishable entrance to Flower and Dean Street is to the right.

[Suzi]

Hi John-
Sort of back from the Flu/grave here and that pic cheered me up!-
Printed it out and had a look- yep think around 1900 may be right- The kids- she of the hat and the others- Could they be dancing some sort of *Hey movement to a kid who's playing something that looks a tad like a 2D cardboard cat!! or failing that a small concertina (NOT a constant screamer!)

Suzi xx

Great pic though...Mr White coat walking past is interesting too....not reaching for his Smarties of course! (hehe)...Have a blue one and you'll be comfortable!

xx
* From my Morris days- A Hey is a sort of three person winding movement and it looks to me as if the three boys behind the 'musician' could be coming back up doing the same thing to make up the six -or waiting to do another three man Hey for some more coin (or Smarties!)
Just a thought.......

'I Can whistle I can play- I can dance the Shepherd's Hey'- Baaaaaaaaaa Humbug!!

[Jon Guy]

The Hanbury Street Shelter
All the World
1 May 1889

Hello Chris

I was just reading Peter Ackroyd`s book on the East End about this Sally Army refuge in Hanbury St. Completed in `89 it was converted from a derelict swimming pool. It was run by Captain Ward and his wife.

[Sam Flynn]

I think this is from about 1900. It's Brick Lane looking south - Osborn Place is to the left and the barely distinguishable entrance to Flower and Dean Street is to the right.
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Is it just my fertile imagination joining up the dots, or is that lad on the right-hand kerb holding a model aircraft of some description?

[Chava]

Jon, which Ackroyd book was that? The Biography of London?

Best regards,
Chava

[John Bennett]

Just done a quick check on the Brick Lane photo I posted earlier. It's from 1907.

[Jon Guy]

Jon, which Ackroyd book was that? The Biography of London?
Best regards,
Chava

Hi Chava

It`s Jack the Ripper and the East End.

Fully recomend it.

[Chava]

Hi Chava

It`s Jack the Ripper and the East End.

Fully recomend it.

Do you mean Four Centuries of the East End? By Alan Palmer with an introduction by Ackroyd?

[George Hutchinson]

Hi again. The current Shoreditch building is not on the same foundations. It's slightly raised up, and is on top of patio-style flagstones.



This is a shot I took a couple of years back.

As for Dorset/Duval/service road, Colin Roberts would be your man here but Rob Clack almost certainly has something he's done workwise on map overlays to show you exactly what is where (or was where). From memory, the service road is even on a slightly different axis to Dorset Street, which was angled very slightly more to the south on the western side than the road is now. Remember also that Dorset Street was narrower than this service road. I think, roughly, the part of the multi-storey car park that juts out at the Commercial Street end is about the area of where the southern side of the road was (maybe the buildings were partway between that and where the main bulk of the car park runs now).

PHILIP