East End Photographs and Drawings

[Archaic]

High Street Whitechapel 1906

I like this 1906 street scene; it's labeled '23906 High Street Whitechapel', aka 'Gardiner's Corner'.
The corner building is wonderful; is it still there? Modern buildings are so rectangular and boring.

(My apologies if this photo has been posted before, there are so many wonderful old photos on this thread that it's difficult gotten for me to keep track of them all...but please keep them coming!)

Cheers, Archaic

[Stephen Thomas]

I like this 1906 street scene; it's labeled '23906 High Street Whitechapel', aka 'Gardiner's Corner'.
The corner building is wonderful; is it still there?

Fraid not, Archaic

http://www.eastlondonpostcard.co.uk/POM2002/June02.htm

ps. Lots of other nice pics on this site. Check out Dr Barnardo's funeral

[Rob Clack]

Here's the ghastly building which is on the site now.



And here's there area in 1909



Rob

[Robert]

Nowadays when masked robbers enter banks, the teller produces a gun and demands all their money.

[Paddy Goose]

Archaic, the St Katherine's Dock photo was taken in the 1950's by Eric de Mare. - Paddy

This photo was taken by Harry Bedford Lamere on June 12,1888 at the Peoples Palace, Mile End Road

[Old Montague]

Gardiners Corner

Gardiners store burnt down in 1972. It was a tremendous blaze. I watched the clock tower crash down. Lots of people standing round were sad, 'cos it had stood all through the blitz.

[Stephen Thomas]

This photo was taken by Harry Bedford Lamere on June 12,1888 at the Peoples Palace, Mile End Road

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Amazing stuff, Paddy. Many thanks for that.

[John Bennett]

Gardiners store burnt down in 1972. It was a tremendous blaze. I watched the clock tower crah down. Lots of people standing round wer sad, @cos it had stood all through the blitz.

Interesting to hear you were there, OM. This image has been posted before, but here's the event in question:

[Old Montague]

Interesting to hear you were there, OM. This image has been posted before, but here's the event in question:

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You can see that the firemen aren't actually training their hoses on Gardiners, but on the buildings on the other side of the road, which were beginning to smoulder because of the heat coming from the blaze. I was standing by the corner of Osborn Rd, just out of shot to the left. (It wasn't me wot done it, guv)

[Paddy Goose]

Thanks, Old Montague, for sharing that with us, you were there.

And Rob, congratulations on your award. I have enjoyed immensely the photos you have posted on the site. John, you had some great finds, too.

Glad you liked it Stephen. Here is another Lamere - Jewish Board of Guardians, 125-129 Middlesex Street



A shop at the junction of Hanbury Street and Brick Lane. Photographer John M Priest, 1956

[Andrew Firth]

Here is another Lamere - Jewish Board of Guardians, 125-129 Middlesex Street

And this is what it looks like now, serving splendid ales and pies....


All the best
Andrew

[Archaic]

There Goes The Neighborhood...

Thanks, everyone. Such a shame that lovely corner-building & clock tower are gone only to be replaced by something so generic-looking.

(Cue Rant: I am so tired of contemporary architects creating a boring rectangular building and then "dressing it up" with a simple triangle on top,
like it was built with a set of childrens' wooden blocks! Can't anyone think of something new? Can't they at least think of something old? Ugh!)

Since the fire happened in 1972, maybe someone filmed the tower burning & crashing to the ground?

- Sorry, not trying to be "architecturally morbid" or anything -

When I look at the different views of the clock tower it seems to be ever-so-slightly off-kilter, as it if doesn't quite line up with the centermost point of the building's front. I'm wondering if it's just an optical delusion on my part, as whoever took the photos was positioned somewhere slightly to the left, and in the case of Philip's photo they were probably hanging out of the upper window.

Great shot of the swimming pool, Paddy, I particularly like the very philosophical swimmer who's ignoring the camera and blissfully floating on his back. I'll be doing that in a few days, because I'm going on vacation to sunny Arizona!

Best regards, Archaic

[Paddy Goose]

Cool Beans, Andy. Thanks.

Did someone say Bollard Relief?



Hi Archaic, glad you liked it. Paddy

[Archaic]

Maybe that bollard doubles as an indicator of the depth of the water in the street during rainy weather?
(If you can't see the top of the bollard, keep small children indoors.)

I noticed that the construction sign says "Road UP"; in the U.S. that would totally confuse everyone. Our signs say "Road OUT"

Nice shot of the big fire, John.

Regards, Archaic

[Paddy Goose]

Shoreditch