East End Photographs and Drawings

[Stephen Thomas]

I've taken the liberty here of enlarging the sections showing the south side of Dorset Street from the overhead pictures that Rob just posted.

[Rob Clack]

A poser.

Probably easy for some. Photo taken in 1969. Where is this?
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Not fair if I answer it as it is one of the first things I noticed when I visited Whitechapel all those years ago.

Hi Rob -

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

Thanks Mark, I think your spot on. Although it's not to clear in the photo I posted, the building next door is 706. The last few letters of the name are DSOLL & Co

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.

Yes, thank heavens for pubs and that people like photographing them.

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

These are some screen captures from 'A Kid for two farthings' made in 1954/55 where a small boy buys a goat thinking it's a unicorn. Some of it was filmed in Vallance Road:

This one is looking South from the railway bridge near the Northern end


This is from the Southern side of the bridge


And this one is looking North from the bridge and from what I understand, the Krays house was one of those on the right.


Rob

[Mike Covell]

Thanks Rob, one could only imagine what went on behind closed doors in Fort Vallance!

Coincidently, I have a few rare shots of Charlie Kray on a visit to Hull, but they are owned by someone else, and I don't want to tread on his toes!

[Chris]

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

Thanks - I misread the small print on the 1873 O.S. map.

Woolf's house in Yalford Street was number 34.

[Rob Clack]

These are some plans from 1909 to 1911 of the Urinals in St James Place. The 1909 Plans are what they looked like at the time and the 1910/11 ones are proposals for new ones on the same site. The drawing of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade building may have been the one that was there/or being built in October 1888.

These are only parts of the Plans.

1909 Plans






1910/11 Plans




Rob

[Suzi]

Soooooooo (Loooooooooooo) perb Rob!!!!!!!!! I want that blown up to A1 on the wall in my new bathroom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Suz x

[Simon Wood]

Hi Rob,

Fantastic! Eat your heart out, Monet. This is art. I, too, want these at A1 size for our bathroom.

Thank you for helping make this the best and most continually fascinating thread on Casebook.

Regards,

Simon

[Suzi]

On sale at the next WS 1888 hehe x

[Suzi]

Laminated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OK A3!!!!!!!!!!

[robhouse]

Rob,

Wow! That is a great photo of the White Hart, and it is great to finally see a photo of Greenfield St. Too bad there isnt a photo facing the opposite direction! Looks like a nice place anyways, very welcoming.

Rob H

[Bailey]

Awesome pics, Rob.

I wonder how likely it is that lurking somewhere in photos like these of the area during the time period, that one of those random street folk could be someone we'd desperately love to see a photo of... You gotta love the possible irony that the young lady glancing at the camera in a busy street scene we've all seen before might be MJK

B.

[Limehouse]

Awesome pics, Rob.

I wonder how likely it is that lurking somewhere in photos like these of the area during the time period, that one of those random street folk could be someone we'd desperately love to see a photo of... You gotta love the possible irony that the young lady glancing at the camera in a busy street scene we've all seen before might be MJK

B.

Or the chap lounging against the wall or walking away from the camera might be JtR!

[Chris Scott]

Some stills from a short archive film about the Jewish east end in the 1950s
These were all taken in Christian Street

[robhouse]

The White Hart was, incidentally, the headquarters of a "Tailor's Strike Committee" which organized a organized a “Great Strike of London Tailors & Sweater’s Victims” in August 1889.

Rob H

[Cubitt]

Wow, those photos are just amazing. Astonishing stuff. And so many! An orgy of memorabilia.

Some truly cracking shots of Spitalfields. And I love the pub named The Grave Maurice!

-"Where you going Bert, ya dinner's almost ready"?
-"I'm just popping down the Grave Maurice for a couple o' pints".

Really brilliant pictures, Rob. Many thanks.