East End Photographs and Drawings

[Celesta]

Those windows with the rounded tops, as in post 1222 at the bottom, were very popular, weren't they? Similar if not identical to those in Miller Ct.

Nice photos, folks.

[steje73]

Thanks for the info, Chris.

You know what I think has happened here with our comical friend?

I think he had always assumed the archway to be Abel's Buildings and has now discovered - probably here - that the arch was the other end of the road without realising we've all known that for a few years now. He thinks he's made a major discovery but has STILL not got it quite right.

Difficult to date the Brushfield Street one. I would put it most likely after 1725, as Hawksmoor's church is in the image.

PHILIP

I would put it after 1725 because of the motor vehicles...

[Rob Clack]

Some photos I got hold of today. First a bit of a pub crawl:

The Aldgate East Tavern, corner of Aldgate High Street and Goulston Street 1930s


City of Carlise in Royal Mint Street when it was called The Dublin, 1930s


Tap House, corner of Brick Lane and Pelham Street 1930s


The Bell, 1930s now called The Market Trader, corner of New Goulston Street and Middlesex Street.


The Bricklayers Arms 1938, corner of Vallance Road and Sale Street


The Cherry Tree, Back Church Lane c1880. The proprietor was Montague Dalby and this pub was opposite the junction with Fairclough Street


This is how it looked about 1990 (between the two bushes sticking out the building)


The Golden Heart, Commercial Street 1930s


The Grave Maurice, Whitechapel Road 1930s


The Grey Eagle, Grey Eagle Street, 1930s


The Gun, corner of Brushfield Street and Crispin Street 1930s


The Jolly Butchers, Brick Lane 1930s


Two of The Market House Tavern in Poplar between 1870 and 1890




The White Hart, Greenfield Street between 1870 and 1890


Rob

[Rob Clack]

Some of Spitalfields Market and the Fruit Exchange:

All of these were taken between October and December 1929

A couple of aerial views




Spitalfields Market from Brushfield Street


Spitalfields Market from Spital Square and Steward Street corner


Spitalfields Market from Steward Street


Spitalfields Fruit Exchange from Brushfield Street


Spitalfields Fruit Exchange Duval Street from Commercial Street


Spitalfields Fruit Exchange Duval Street from Crispin Street


Spitalfields Market Fruit Exchange Entrance in Brushfield Street


Rob

[Rob Clack]

And finally,

Vallance Road 3 January 1957


And the White Horse Pub between 1870 and 1890. I've no idea where it is but it's a nice photo with all the vintage advertising on the wall.


Rob

[Stephen Thomas]

Hi Rob

You've excelled even your own good self with that lot.

Many, many thanks.

[Chris]

The White Hart, Greenfield Street between 1870 and 1890

Thanks for this - I don't think I've seen a photo of Greenfield Street from the period before. The White Hart was apparently on the west side at number 10, 6 doors north of Morris Lubnowski Cohen's house, where Aaron Kozminski was living before he was committed to Colney Hatch in 1891. Aaron's elder brother Isaac lived opposite to Morris on the east side of the street. (The numbers, both odd and even, ran north-to-south on the west side of the street, then south-to-north on the east side.)

The entry shown in the photo must have led, via what's marked on maps as White Hart Place, to Yalford Street, which ran parallel to Greenfield Street, and where Aaron's other brother Woolf lived on the east side 3 doors to the north in early 1889 (and possibly at the time of the murders). Woolf's house would have backed on to the two-story houses shown on the right of this photo.

[Rob Clack]

Thanks Stephen,

Hi Chris,

That's right, I don't think it was clear enough in the photo I posted, but there is a clear number 10 above the passage entrance.



The passage by the way is White Hart Court. According to the 1938 Goads, the numbering seems to have remained basically the same.



Rob

[Sam Flynn]

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...is that chap second from right clutching a quart can of ale?

[John Bennett]

Rob,

A literal deluge of great shots. Who needs JTR when you have all this?

Great stuff as always.
JB

[Rob Clack]

...is that chap second from right clutching a quart can of ale?

Could be.

[Rob Clack]

Rob,

A literal deluge of great shots. Who needs JTR when you have all this?

Great stuff as always.
JB

Cheers John, after all the great stuff you've been posting lately it's about time I pulled my finger out.

Rob

[John Bennett]

A poser.

Probably easy for some. Photo taken in 1969. Where is this?

[m_w_r]

And the White Horse Pub between 1870 and 1890. I've no idea where it is but it's a nice photo with all the vintage advertising on the wall.

Hi Rob -

I think it may well have been at 704 Woolwich Road.

The name of the publican, part-obscured by the overhanging lamp, seems to be A.H. Overton. If you look for this chap in the censuses, he is a licensed victualler at the Red Lion at 9 Greenwich Road in 1871 ...



... and at an unnamed establishment at 430 New Cross Road in 1881 ...



... and at another unnamed establishment at 704 Woolwich Road in 1891 ...



He seems to have died in 1897q3.

In the Kelly's London Suburban Directory for 1896, this is the entry for the latter address:



This is his daughter, seen living with him in all the above censuses.

It's just possible that he had another White Horse, I suppose, but I would say that the odds are that this is the one in the Woolwich Road.

Regards,

Mark

*Sorry the images are such ridiculous sizes... I'm not technically gifted enough to make the appropriate adjustments...

[Mike Covell]

Rob, thanks for sharing those fantastic shots of the public houses. I have a love of old pubs and boozers, and am fascintated by the weird and often out of place carvings and motifs on the buildings.

It was interesting to see Vallance-road, as I have an interest in the Krays, and the areas they inhabited.

Great stuff as always.