East End Photographs and Drawings

[Sam Flynn]

OMG Batchelor's Peas!!!!

... in a shop called "Jalalabad". Must have been a relative of Yasser Marrowfat.

[Robert]

Well it certainly wasn't Mushy Dayan.

[Sam Flynn]

Salaam a legume

[Suzi]

Is that Hail to the Beans??
Hold the frivolity!!!!- We'll get tolled off.........as the bell ringer said when he caught his clapper in the bell rope!!

[Sam Flynn]

Is that Hail to the Beans??

... "peas be with you", actually, Suzi (or, more strictly, "peace with peas" )

[Suzi]

Peas........ always best to wait until they repeat............repeat........OMG am developing echolalia!!!!........lalia.........lalia.......... ...

STOP it NOW!!!!! ..........right where were we???
GREAT pics John!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cubitt]

Great (appalling) puns everyone! I visibily winced at some of them.

This is the first time I've seen any photos of Flower and Dean street. Shame it's while it's being demolished. Do we have any photo's of the street in happier times?

Wasn't F&D Street the place where JTR most probably lived, according to some modern criminal psychologist?

[Stephen Thomas]

This is the first time I've seen any photos of Flower and Dean street. Shame it's while it's being demolished. Do we have any photo's of the street in happier times?

Hi Cubitt

Check out the Photo Archive here under Other Specific East London Locations

[John Bennett]

Enjoy this little oddity, folks.

Black Lion Yard, Whitechapel, in 1961. Take a moment to notice Mr L. Elgrod's jewellers, the shop on the left hand side with the clock above it.


Black Lion Yard in 1975. Isn't it time Mr Elgrod sold up?

[John Bennett]

Here's a few more...

No.2 Fieldgate Street (date unknown). Don't go looking for it, it ain't there no more.


Brady Street with (about to be demolished) Brady Street Dwellings, 1978.


Sclater Street/Brick Lane 1971. Some sound advice for naughty people.

[George Hutchinson]

Love 'em, John.

Can you find anything of the true location of Swallow Gardens?

Only I was guiding tonight and overtook that idiot Pope in Gunthorpe Street who yelled to me that he'd found 'another' error in Rob's and mine's book and that we had the wrong location of Swallow Gardens and he'd discovered where it really is - the site of (what I think he said was) The Martyrs' Club.

Funny, as on his website he says that Liz Stride and Frances Coles were killed in the same place. I texted Rob who texted back he finds it sad that people are being told such lies. Well, it's their fault for choosing to go with him!

PHILIP

[John Bennett]

It appears Mr Elgrod was a bit of a stayer. I've just found a reference to an attempted felony in his shop in Black Lion Yard in 1929!

Phil, you're not telling me that JPdeL said all that when you had a group with you? If so, that deserves a bloody good hiding.

[John Bennett]

Two more before bedtime...

Fort Street Spitalfields, 1944. A wonderful piece of desolation.


And finally, the famous 'Rodinsky's Room' in the top floor of 19 Princelet Street (1983).

[Chris]

No.2 Fieldgate Street (date unknown). Don't go looking for it, it ain't there no more.

Presumably this is somewhere close to 3A Fieldgate Street, where Aaron Kozminski's elder brother Isaac lived in 1881.

I was never able to work out where exactly this was, as the 1890 Goad Plan gives the numbering along the north side starting from the west as:
1, 2, 2 and a half, 3, 4, 5, 2, 3, 4 and so on.

Edit: Actually, looking at the online 1881 census, the sequence of numbers there is:
1, 2, 2A, 2 and a half, 2B, 3, 4, 5 Black Horse, 2C, 3A, 4, 5.
So Isaac appears to have lived in the easternmost number 3 on the Goad Plan. I'm guessing the photo is of the westernmost number 2 (?).

[cappuccina]

Thank you, thank you to everyone who has posted photographs old and new here. They are absolutely fascinating, brilliant, and amazing!!