East End Photographs and Drawings

[Chris Scott]

Vine Court
Dated 1913

[Chris Scott]

Commercial Road
Dated 1926

[Chris Scott]

Brick Lane
dated 1895

[Chris Scott]

This shop was at 17 Eliot Place, Blackheath
Date unknown

[Chris Scott]

The photo below is entitled simply "A Spitalfields Street"
I have no idea of the date or location - any suggestions gratefully received as to where this was taken

[Mike Covell]

All the photo's are amazing but the "Unknown Spitalfields Street" is fantastic!
The overhanging buildings and twisting road are the types of images that are conjoured up by Dickens!

[Sam Flynn]

The photo below is entitled simply "A Spitalfields Street". I have no idea of the date or location - any suggestions gratefully received as to where this was taken

Hi Chris,

That rather distinctive jagged steeple in the distance looks like it might be St Anne's Church, Limehouse.


Edit: As you were - that might be a "ghost" image from another photograph! On the other hand...

[Stephen Thomas]

The photo below is entitled simply "A Spitalfields Street"
I have no idea of the date or location - any suggestions gratefully received as to where this was taken

An astonishing find, Chris. That has to be the earliest photo ever of Spitalfields. Looks Elizabethan! Brick Lane?

[Septic Blue]

- any suggestions gratefully received as to where this was taken

Somewhere other than Spitalfields !!!


Colin

[Chris Scott]

Hi Colin
I can only go by the caption this pic was given
This came from the public, open access photo section of the Ancestry site and you can see the original and its caption at

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/pt/ViewPhoto.aspx?tid=1192558&pid=-1815097518&iid=04345e30-41b8-48a6-887a-b0479029b0fc&src=search

Regards
Chris

[anna]

I just love the photo of the unknown Spitalfields street.
Well done Chris!....top man for finding it for us.
I agree with Mike...it's straight out of a Dickens novel.
It's my favourite photo,although I was quite taken by the one of the mortuary cart earlier.......

[Septic Blue]

I can only go by the caption this pic was given

I understand, Chris !!!

But as Stephen suggested, some of those buildings look old enough to be Elizabethan.

The steeple in the background looks rather Gothic !!!

If this photo was even taken in London, I'd guess Westminster, Lambeth, The Borough, or somewhere in The City, such as St. Sepulchre (Smithfield), that was lucky enough to survive The Great Fire.


Colin

[Sam Flynn]

[ATTACH]2302[/ATTACH]The steeple in the background looks rather Gothic !!!

If this photo was even taken in London, I'd guess Westminster, Lambeth, The Borough, or somewhere in The City...

I'd stick with The City, Colin. Could this be St Dunstan in the East, before it was flattened in the Blitz and reconstructed? If so, that alley would have been somewhere near Great Tower Street, EC3.



...note the gap under the peak of the spire.

[Robert]

Is that the beginning of a street name on the right just above the lamp? I don't suppose anyone can make out a letter?

[anna]

Robert,
The street sign appears to be on the wall where you see "Woolf" above the open doorway.It seems to be a long name ...something like Willliamson Street?I think,if I remember rightly,there was an Isaac Woolf in Middlesex Street at the time of JTR who was a rag merchant...