East London: Then and Now

[Paddy Goose]

Horse trough then and now

[Blackkat]

TY!

[Stephen Thomas]

Can anyone tell me how close a market (orange carts etc) were from 29 hanbury?

Hi Blackkat

If you check a map you'll see Spitalfields Market just below the western end of Hanbury Street and closer to #29 there was, then as now, a Sunday market on Brick Lane which intersects Hanbury Street not many yards from the murder site.

[cats meat man]

Hi Paddy
Thanks,I've not seen that second photo of a cats meat man before but I'm sure I've seen him before on the buses,'I hate you Butler'
All the best
Rob

[Blackkat]

Just wondering where the nearest one was. Trying to get a layout and mental picture of the area. Thank you!

[Paddy Goose]

Two photos of cats meat men Then but no Now.
The decoration on the house marks the coronation of Edward VII.

Paddy

[cats meat man]

Hi Blackkat
There was an orange market near Mitre Square as well as many other markets in the area,probably close to 29 Hanbury Street.Costermonger barrows were stored in Castle Alley amongst others.Do you have a theory developing here which invoves orange carts or markets? 29 Hanbury Street would most probably be associated with carts selling cats meat.
All the best
Rob

[Blackkat]

Can anyone tell me how close a market (orange carts etc) were from 29 hanbury?

[Paddy Goose]

Thanks for digging into your vault, Phillip.

Paddy, Were you punting when you took that photo?
Monty

Hi Monty, no I was googling. Here is another set -- Paddy

Wapping c 1950

2006

[Mike Covell]

Right thread, wrong thread, they are lovely pics Philip!

[George Hutchinson]

Some more...


Obviously Whitechapel High Street just past the entrance to George Yard - The Angel is the building with the huge lamp outside it (Ragged Schools, Ragged Children - 1995)


The King Edward Street Ragged School, Spitalfields (Ragged Schools, Ragged Children - 1995)


Residents of an unnamed Lodging House, probably East End, at a Sunday Service (Modern London - Its Sins And Woes - 1906)


How d'you like THIS one?! A shot of the side of St Mary Matfelon Church showing an outdoor service being given in Yiddish (Modern London - Its Sins And Woes - 1906)


Aldgate High Street in 1875 (from City Of London Past & Present - 1976). This is looking from the NE at the junction with Middlesex Street. The Hoop & Grapes, that famous old pub, is a few buildings in (the others to the left now lie under Mansell Street) with the things hanging outside it.

And I just realised I put all of these on the wrong bloody thread.

PHILIP

[George Hutchinson]

Right, I've not posted any images for a very long time so here's a few oddities most of you won't have seen before...


Undated image of Aldgate High Street, showing the station, taken from the SW looking E - the infamous 'lost' 29 where CE was arrested would be just out of shot on the right.


The original St Mary Matfelon church, Whitechapel High Street, early 1800s.




Two shots of Spitalfields Market from The Architect & Building News, November 23rd 1928.


Aldgate Pump from Quaint And Curious London, May 1944.

PHILIP

[Limehouse]

This is a brilliant thread. I would like to thank to all those people who post old and new photographs of locations around east London. They give so much pleasure and are a welcome break from the 'enthusiastic' discourse that one can get drawn into on other threads.

I would also like to tell Rob and Phillip how much I enjoyed their book. It is one I will return to again and again. Well done.

[Mike Covell]

Paddy,

Were you punting when you took that photo?

Monty

How Rude

Are those items on the River stationary or just floating rubbish?

[Monty]

Paddy,

Were you punting when you took that photo?

Monty