Cheshire Street, E1

Cheshire Street is a street in the East End linking Brick Lane with Bethnal Green and Whitechapel.

Cheshire Street (1969)
Credit: David Granick (1912-80)

It has had various names in its history, such as Hare Street, and today forms part of Brick Lane Market on Sundays. The Cheshire Street part of the market is home to various Bric A Brac stalls; prior to the area become popular with artists, the market was a source of basic items (clothes, toys etc.) for working people from the East End.

The street runs parallel to the former Bishopsgate Goods Yard and the main railway track into Liverpool Street and the railway viaduct that used to carry trains into the good yard is one of the oldest brick rail viaducts in the world, the listed Braithwaite Viaduct. It is possible to see the original brick work of this viaduct from Grimsby Street, a tributary of Cheshire Street.

The old Carpenters Arms pub is also located on Cheshire Street. The notorious Kray twins bought the pub for their mother, who used to hold court in it at weekends. According to the last proprietors of the pub, the Krays installed a bespoke bar surface during the time they owned the pub - the surface employed was allegedly a coffin lid. Reggie Kray’s funeral procession went along Cheshire Street in 2000.

Cheshire Street is also home to the Repton Boys boxing club, London’s oldest boxing gym, alma mater to boxers such as Maurice Hope, Billy Walker, and Audley Harrison, not to mention underworld figures such as "Mad" Frankie Fraser.

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

The Underground Map Pepys Street, EC3N Added: 20 Sep 2020 13:01 GMT	Pepys starts diary On 1 January 1659, Samuel Pepys started his famous daily diary and maintained it for ten years. The diary has become perhaps the most extensive source of information on this critical period of English history. Pepys never considered that his diary would be read by others. The original diary consisted of six volumes written in Shelton shorthand, which he had learned as an undergraduate on scholarship at Magdalene College, Cambridge. This shorthand was introduced in 1626, and was the same system Isaac Newton used when writing. Reply
Tricia Shadwell Added: 27 Apr 2021 12:05 GMT	St George in the East Church This Church was opened in 1729, designed by Hawksmore. Inside destroyed by incendrie bomb 16th April 1941. Rebuilt inside and finished in 1964. The building remained open most of the time in a temporary prefab. Reply
Christine D Elliott Spitalfields Added: 11 Jun 2023 14:50 GMT	Spitalfields Charles Blutte came to Spitalfields from Walincourt, Picardie, France for reason of religious persecution. His brother Pierre Phillippe Blutte followed the following year. Between the two brothers they had eventually 20 children, they worked as silk weavers around the Brick Lane area. Member’s of Pierre’s family resided at 40 Thomas Street for over 100 years. Another residence associated with the Blutte family is Vine Court, Lamb Street, Spitalfields, number 16,17 & 18 Vine Court was owned by John Kindon, the father in law of Charles Blutte’s son Jean (John) who married Ann Kindon. This residence appears several times in the census records. Source: Quarto_52_Vol_LII_La_Providence Reply
Katharina Logan Ely Place, N1 Added: 9 Aug 2022 19:01 GMT	Ely place existed in name in 1857 On 7th July 1857 John James Chase and Mary Ann Weekes were married at St John the Baptist Hoxton, he of full age and she a minor. Both parties list their place of residence as Ely Place, yet according to other information, this street was not named until 1861. He was a bricklayer, she had no occupation listed, but both were literate and able to sign their names on their marriage certificate. Source: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSF7-Q9Y7?cc=3734475 Reply
Marion James Edith Street, E2 Added: 12 Mar 2021 17:43 GMT	26 Edith Street Haggerston On Monday 11th October 1880 Charlotte Alice Haynes was born at 26 Edith Street Haggerston the home address of her parents her father Francis Haynes a Gilder by trade and her mother Charlotte Alice Haynes and her two older siblings Francis & George who all welcomed the new born baby girl into the world as they lived in part of the small Victorian terraced house which was shared by another family had an outlook view onto the world of the Imperial Gas Works site - a very grey drab reality of the life they were living as an East End working class family - 26 Edith Street no longer stands in 2021 - the small rundown polluted terrace houses of Edith Street are long since gone along with the Gas Companies buildings to be replaced with green open parkland that is popular in 21st century by the trendy residents of today - Charlotte Alice Haynes (1880-1973) is the wife of my Great Grand Uncle Henry Pickett (1878-1930) As I research my family history I slowly begin to understand the life my descendants had to live and the hardships that they went through to survive - London is my home and there are many areas of this great city I find many of my descendants living working and dying in - I am yet to find the golden chalice! But in all truthfulness my family history is so much more than hobby its an understanding of who I am as I gather their stories. Did Charlotte Alice Pickett nee Haynes go on to live a wonderful life - no I do not think so as she became a widow in 1930 worked in a canteen and never remarried living her life in and around Haggerston & Hackney until her death in 1973 with her final resting place at Manor Park Cemetery - I think Charlotte most likely excepted her lot in life like many women from her day, having been born in the Victorian era where the woman had less choice and standing in society, which is a sad state of affairs - So I will endeavour to write about Charlotte and the many other women in my family history to give them the voice of a life they so richly deserve to be recorded ! Edith Street was well situated for the new public transport of two railway stations in 1880 :- Haggerston Railway Station opened in 1867 & Cambridge Heath Railway Station opened in 1872 Reply
Beverly Sand Havering Street, E1 Added: 3 Apr 2021 17:19 GMT	Havering Street, E1 My mother was born at 48 Havering Street. That house no longer exists. It disappeared from the map by 1950. Family name Schneider, mother Ray and father Joe. Joe’s parents lived just up the road at 311 Cable Street Reply
jack stevens Whites Row, E1 Added: 26 Sep 2021 13:38 GMT	Mothers birth place Number 5 Whites Row which was built in around 1736 and still standing was the premises my now 93 year old mother was born in, her name at birth was Hilda Evelyne Shaw, Reply
margaret clark Thrawl Street, E1 Added: 15 Oct 2021 22:23 GMT	Margaret’s address when she married in 1938 ^, Josepine House, Stepney is the address of my mother on her marriage certificate 1938. Her name was Margaret Irene Clark. Her father Basil Clark was a warehouse grocer. Reply
Mike Levy Arbour Square, E1 Added: 19 Sep 2023 18:10 GMT	Bombing of Arbour Square in the Blitz On the night of September 7, 1940. Hyman Lubosky (age 35), his wife Fay (or Fanny)(age 32) and their son Martin (age 17 months) died at 11 Arbour Square. They are buried together in Rainham Jewish Cemetery. Their grave stones read: "Killed by enemy action" Reply
Old Nichol Street, E2 Added: 6 Nov 2021 15:03 GMT	Old Nichol Street, E2 Information about my grandfather’s tobacconist shop Reply
Nant Street, E2 Added: 15 Jan 2023 09:49 GMT	The Bombing of Nant Street WW2 My uncle with his young son and baby daughter were killed in the bombing of Nant Street in WW2. His wife had gone to be with her mother whilst the bombing of the area was taking place, and so survived. Cannot imagine how she felt when she returned to see her home flattened and to be told of the death of her husband and children. Reply
Admin Tower Bridge, SE1 Added: 26 Aug 2022 15:19 GMT	Bus makes a leap A number 78 double-decker bus driven by Albert Gunter was forced to jump an accidentally opening Tower Bridge. He was awarded a £10 bonus. Reply
Steven Shepherd Pitfield Street, N1 Added: 4 Feb 2021 14:20 GMT	Our House I and my three brothers were born at 178 Pitfield Street. All of my Mothers Family (ADAMS) Lived in the area. There was an area behind the house where the Hoxton Stall holders would keep the barrows. The house was classed as a slum but was a large house with a basement. The basement had 2 rooms that must have been unchanged for many years it contained a ’copper’ used to boil and clean clothes and bedlinen and a large ’range’ a cast iron coal/log fired oven. Coal was delivered through a ’coal hole’ in the street which dropped through to the basement. The front of the house used to be a shop but unused while we lived there. I have many more happy memories of the house too many to put here. Reply
Martin Eaton Shoreditch Added: 14 Oct 2021 03:56 GMT	Boundary Estate Sunbury, Taplow House. Reply
STEPHEN JACKSON Fellows Court, E2 Added: 14 Nov 2021 17:25 GMT	Fellows Court, E2 my family moved into the tower block 13th floor (maisonette), in 1967 after our street Lenthall rd e8 was demolished, we were one of the first families in the new block. A number of families from our street were rehoused in this and the adjoining flats. Inside toilet and central heating, all very modern at the time, plus eventually a tarmac football pitch in the grounds,(the cage), with a goal painted by the kids on the brick wall of the railway. Reply

LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

Matthew Proctor Blackheath Grove, SE3 Added: 7 Dec 2023 17:36 GMT	Blackheath Grove, SE3 Road was originally known as The Avenue, then became "The Grove" in 1942. From 1864 there was Blackheath Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on this street until it was destroyed by a V2 in 1944 Reply
Peter Gambia Street, SE1 Added: 4 Dec 2023 07:05 GMT	Gambia Street, SE1 Gambia Street was previously known as William Street. Reply
Eileen Brecknock Road, N7 Added: 10 Nov 2023 09:42 GMT	Brecknock Road Pleating Company My great grandparents ran the Brecknock Road pleating Company around 1910 to 1920 and my Grandmother worked there as a pleater until she was 16. I should like to know more about this. I know they had a beautiful Victorian house in Islington as I have photos of it & of them in their garden. Source: Family history Reply
Squirrel’s Lane, IG9 Added: 6 Nov 2023 16:59 GMT	061123 Why do Thames Water not collect the 15 . Three meter lengths of blue plastic fencing, and old pipes etc. They left here for the last TWO Years, these cause an obstruction,as they halfway lying in the road,as no footpath down this road, and the cars going and exiting the park are getting damaged, also the public are in Grave Danger when trying to avoid your rubbish and the danger of your fences. Source: Squirrels Lane. Buckhurst Hill, Essex. IG9. I want some action ,now, not Excuses.MK. Reply
Christian Cornwall Road, W11 Added: 31 Oct 2023 10:34 GMT	Cornwall Road, W11 Photo shows William Richard Hoare’s chemist shop at 121 Cornwall Road. Reply
Vik Oaks Road, TW6 Added: 30 Oct 2023 18:48 GMT	Old pub sign from the Rising Sun Hi I have no connection to the area except that for the last 30+ years we’ve had an old pub sign hanging on our kitchen wall from the Rising Sun, Stanwell, which I believe was / is on the Oaks Rd. Happy to upload a photo if anyone can tell me how or where to do that! Reply
Phillip Martin Ashburnham Place, SE10 Added: 16 Oct 2023 06:25 GMT	16 Ashburnham Road On 15 October 1874 George Frederick Martin was born in 16 Ashburnham Road Greenwich to George Henry Martin, a painter, and Mary Martin, formerly Southern. Reply
Christine Bithrey Holly Park, N4 Added: 15 Oct 2023 15:20 GMT	The Hollies (1860 - 1900) I lived in Holly Park Estate from 1969 I was 8 years old when we moved in until I left to get married, my mother still lives there now 84. I am wondering if there was ever a cemetery within The Hollies? And if so where? Was it near to the Blythwood Road end or much nearer to the old Methodist Church which is still standing although rather old looking. We spent most of our childhood playing along the old dis-used railway that run directly along Blythwood Road and opposite Holly Park Estate - top end which is where we live/ed. We now walk my mothers dog there twice a day. An elderly gentleman once told me when I was a child that there used to be a cemetery but I am not sure if he was trying to scare us children! I only thought about this recently when walking past the old Methodist Church and seeing the flag stone in the side of the wall with the inscription of when it was built late 1880 If anyone has any answers please email me [email protected] Reply

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Pollard Row, E2

Pollard Street, E2 Pollard Street is a road in the E2 postcode area

Pollard Street, E2

Princelet Street, E1 Princelet Street started its life as Princes Street.

Princelet Street, E1

Quaker Street, E1 Quaker Street was at first called Westbury Street.

Quaker Street, E1

Queen Street, E1 In 1883, King Street, E1 became Queen Street, E1.

Queen Street, E1

Ramsey Street, Ramsey Street is an old East End street.

Ramsey Street,

Ramsey Street, E2 A road with a long history, Ramsey Street has been realigned since the Second World War.

Ramsey Street, E2

Redchurch Street, E1 Redchurch Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Redchurch Street, E1

Rhoda Street, E2 Rhoda Street was formerly Peter Street.

Rhoda Street, E2

Richmix Square, E1 Richmix Square is a location in London.

Richmix Square, E1

Rob Street, Rob Street is an old East End street.

Rob Street,

Roberta Street, E2 Roberta Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Roberta Street, E2

Rochelle Street, E2 Rochelle Street connects Swanfield Street with Arnold Circus.

Rochelle Street, E2

Rosemoon House, E2 Rosemoon House is a block on Voss Street.

Rosemoon House, E2

Rushmead, E2 Rushmead is a road in the E2 postcode area

Rushmead, E2

Sale Street, E2 Sale Street once ran much further east.

Sale Street, E2

Sanger House, E2 Sanger House is sited on Turin Street.

Sanger House, E2

Satchwell Kents, Satchwell Kents is an old East End street.

Satchwell Kents,

Satchwell Rents, E2 Satchwell Rents owes its origins to a set of buildings dating from 1689.

Satchwell Rents, E2

Satchwell Road, E2 Satchwell Road dates from the 1950s.

Satchwell Road, E2

Satchwell Street, Satchwell Street is an old East End street.

Satchwell Street,

Sclater Street, E1 Sclater Street connects Bethnal Green Road and Brick Lane.

Sclater Street, E1

Scott Street, E1 Scott Street is a road in the E1 postcode area

Scott Street, E1

Selater Street, Selater Street is an old East End street.

Selater Street,

Selby Street, E1 Selby Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.

Selby Street, E1

Seven Stars Yard, E1 A street within the E1 postcode

Seven Stars Yard, E1

Shackleman Street , Shackleman Street is an old East End street.

Shackleman Street ,

Shacklewell Street, E2 Shacklewell Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Shacklewell Street, E2

Shah Paran House, E1 Shah Paran House is a block on Pedley Street.

Shah Paran House, E1

Sheba Place, E1 A street within the E1 postcode

Sheba Place, E1

Sheba Street, After 1893, the new name for Queen Street was Sheba Street, E1

Sheba Street,

Shoreditch High Street, E1 Shoreditch High Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.

Shoreditch High Street, E1

Silwex House, E1 Residential block

Silwex House, E1

Snell House, E2 Snell House is a block on Turin Street.

Snell House, E2

Sol Frankel House, E1 Sol Frankel House is a block on Pedley Street.

Sol Frankel House, E1

Southampton Terrace, Southampton Terrace is an old East End street.

Southampton Terrace,

Speakman House, E2 Speakman House is one of four blocks built around a communal area.

Speakman House, E2

Spital Street, E1 Spital Street is a road in the E1 postcode area

Spital Street, E1

Squerries Street, Squerries Street is an old East End street.

Squerries Street,

Squirries Street, E2 Squirries Street is a road in the E2 postcode area

Squirries Street, E2

St Andrew Street, St Andrew Street is an old East End street.

St Andrew Street,

St Matthews Row, E2 St Matthews Row is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

St Matthews Row, E2

Station House, E1 Station House can be found on Code Street.

Station House, E1

Steadhem House, E2 Steadhem House is a block on Bacon Street.

Steadhem House, E2

Streatley Buildings, E2 Streatley Buildings was the first block of the new Boundary Estate - completed in 1896.

Streatley Buildings, E2

Strickland House, E2 Strickland House is a building on Chambord Street.

Strickland House, E2

Stuart House, E2 Stuart House stands in an area of the Avebury Estate.

Stuart House, E2

Stuttle House, E1 Stuttle House is a block on Buxton Street.

Stuttle House, E1

Sunbury Workshops, E2 Sunbury Workshops is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Sunbury Workshops, E2

Surma Close, E1 Surma Close is a road in the E1 postcode area

Surma Close, E1

Swanfield Court, E2 Swanfield Court is located on Chilton Street.

Swanfield Court, E2

Swanfield Street, E2 Swanfield Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Swanfield Street, E2

Tannery House, E1 Tannery House is a block on Deal Street.

Tannery House, E1

Tassaduq Ahmed House, E1 Tassaduq Ahmed House is a block on Pedley Street.

Tassaduq Ahmed House, E1

Tea Building, E1 Tea Building is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.

Tea Building, E1

Teal Street, Teal Street is an old East End street.

Teal Street,

Tent Street, E1 Tent Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.

Tent Street, E1

The Tea Building, E1 The Tea Building is a building on Shoreditch High Street.

The Tea Building, E1

Thorold Street, Thorold Street is an old East End street.

Thorold Street,

Torrance House, E2 Torrance House is a block on Turin Street.

Torrance House, E2

Trahorn Close, E1 Trahorn Close is a road in the E1 postcode area

Trahorn Close, E1

Treves House, E1 Treves House is a block on Vallance Road.

Treves House, E1

Turin Street, E2 Turin Street was originally known as ’Hope Town’.

Turin Street, E2

Turville Street, E2 Turville Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Turville Street, E2

Tyrell Street, E2 Tyrell Street appears on maps between the 1830s and 1900s.

Tyrell Street, E2

Tyssen Street, E2 Tyssen Street, for long a separate street, was absorbed into Brick Lane during the late nineteenth century.

Tyssen Street, E2

Underwood Road, E1 Underwood Road is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.

Underwood Road, E1

Underwood Street, In Stepney E1, Albert Place became Underwood Street in 1883.

Underwood Street,

Union Place, E1 Union Place was a small alleyway off Quaker Street.

Union Place, E1

Vallance Road, E1 Vallance Road is a significant road running north-south from Bethnal Green Road to Whitechapel Road.

Vallance Road, E1

Vallance Road, E2 The Bethnal Green end of Vallance Road was originally called White Street.

Vallance Road, E2

Virginia Road, E2 Virginia Road is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Virginia Road, E2

Vollasky House, E1 Vollasky House is a block on Daplyn Street.

Vollasky House, E1

Voss Street, E2 Voss Street is the successor to an interlinked series of alleyways behind Bethnal Green Road.

Voss Street, E2

Walton Buildings, Walton Buildings is an old East End street.

Walton Buildings,

Wear Place, E2 Wear Place is a road in the E2 postcode area

Wear Place, E2

Weaver Street, E1 Weaver Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.

Weaver Street, E1

Westhope House, E2 Westhope House is a block on Derbyshire Street.

Westhope House, E2

Wheler House, E1 Wheler House is a block on Quaker Street.

Wheler House, E1

Wheler Street, E1 Wheler Street runs north from Commercial Street.

Wheler Street, E1

Whitby Street, E1 Whitby Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.

Whitby Street, E1

White Lion Street, White Lion Street is an old East End street.

White Lion Street,

White Street, E2 White Street was the former name for part of Vallance Road.

White Street, E2

Wilkes Street, E1 Wilkes Street is a street of early eighteenth century houses, some of which were refronted in the early nineteenth century.

Wilkes Street, E1

Winchester Street, Winchester Street is an old East End street.

Winchester Street,

Wodeham Gardens, E1 Wodeham Gardens is a road in the E1 postcode area

Wodeham Gardens, E1

Wood Close, E2 Wood Close is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Wood Close, E2

Woodseer Street, E1 Woodseer Street was formerly known as Pelham Street and part of the Halifax Estate.

Woodseer Street, E1

Yates House, E2 Yates House is a block on Roberta Street.

Yates House, E2

NEARBY PUBS

The Commercial Tavern is on Commercial Street.

Gibraltar Tavern The Gibraltar Tavern (a.k.a. The Gib) was situated at 28 Gibraltar Walk, Bethnal Green.

Gibraltar Tavern

Shoreditch House

The Owl And The Pussycat The Owl And The Pussycat is a pub on Redchurch St.

The Owl And The Pussycat

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Shoreditch

Shoreditch is a place in the London Borough of Hackney. It is a built-up district located 2.3 miles (3.7 km) north east of Charing Cross.

An old form of the name is Soersditch, and the origin is lost, though early tradition connects it with Jane Shore, the mistress of Edward IV.

It was the site of an Augustinian priory in the 12th Century until its dissolution in 1539. In 1576 the first playhouse (theatre) in England was opened, and in 1577 The Curtain theatre was opened in the middle of what is Curtain Road today.

During the 17th Century, wealthy traders and Huguenot silk weavers moved to the area, establishing a textile industry centered to the south around Spitalfields Market. The area declined along with the textile industry and from the end of the 19th Century to the 1960s, Shoreditch was a by-word for crime, prostitution and poverty.

Today Shoreditch is a busy and popular district, noted for its large number of art galleries, bars, restaurants, media businesses and an urban golf club.

Shoreditch High Street station officially opened to the public on 27 April 2010 with services running between Dalston Junction and New Cross or New Cross Gate. The station replaced nearby Shoreditch, which closed on 9 June 2006. The next station to the south is Whitechapel and to the north is Hoxton.

LOCAL PHOTOS

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Bethnal Green railway station entrance, some distance away from its namesake Central line tube station. The photo was taken on 25 October 2008 Credit: Wiki Commons/Sunil060902 TUM image id: 1606480779 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Great Synagogue of London (1810) Credit: Thomas Rowlandson (1756â TUM image id: 1518368926 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Boar’s Head was located on the north side of Whitechapel High Street. The Boar’s Head was originally an inn, which was built in the 1530s; it underwent two renovations for use as a playhouse: first, in 1598, when a simple stage was erected, and a second, more elaborate renovation in 1599. Credit: Unknown TUM image id: 1518792376 Licence:	St James Duke Credit: Robert William Billings and John Le Keux TUM image id: 1520552156 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) addressing a "smoking debate" at Toynbee Hall (1902) TUM image id: 1660651336 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Petticoat Lane in the 1920s Credit: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress) TUM image id: 1523993996 Licence:	Whitechapel Gallery Credit: LeHaye/Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1556738899 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Geffrye Museum, London (2012) Credit: Chang Yisheng TUM image id: 1557162652 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Gibraltar Tavern in Gibraltar Walk, Bethnal Green. This pub was present before 1750. The post-war Avebury Estate was extended in 1963. The pub disappeared under the site for the block called Cadogan House. Credit: (Sourced by) Charlie Goodwin TUM image id: 1622121392 Licence:	Middlesex Street (Petticoat Lane) on the site of Sandy’s Row (1912) Credit: CA Mathew/Bishopsgate Institute TUM image id: 1641574406 Licence: CC BY 2.0
The Ten Bells pub, Spitalfields (2012) The Jamie Oliver series Jamie’s Great Britain featured his great-great-grandfather was a landlord of the pub during the 1880s. Oliver was shown visiting the Ten Bells to discuss his East London roots, and to see how Londoners lived, drank and ate at the end of the 19th century. Credit: Wiki Commons/Wordspotandsmith TUM image id: 1641510553 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Old Spitalfields Market (2017) This is a covered market which has been on the site for over 350 years. In 2005, a regeneration programme resulted in the new public spaces: Bishops Square and Crispin Place, which are now part of the modern Spitalfields Market. A range of public markets runs daily, with independent local stores and restaurants - as well as new office developments. Credit: Pete Gloria TUM image id: 1641485607 Licence: CC BY 2.0	One of the bedrooms of Dennis Severs’ House in Folgate Street, Spitalfields. Each room of Dennis Severs’ House is a preserve ’experience’ of 18th-century Huguenot life. Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1641983736 Licence: CC BY 2.0	A view east along Whitechapel Road including the Pavilion Theatre. The Pavilion was the first major theatre to open in the East End. It opened in 1827 and closed in 1935. TUM image id: 1622205635 Licence:	46 Aldgate High Street TUM image id: 1490910153 Licence: CC BY 2.0

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The Gibraltar Tavern in Gibraltar Walk, Bethnal Green. This pub was present before 1750. The post-war Avebury Estate was extended in 1963. The pub disappeared under the site for the block called Cadogan House.
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Middlesex Street (Petticoat Lane) on the site of Sandy’s Row (1912)
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The Ten Bells pub, Spitalfields (2012) The Jamie Oliver series Jamie’s Great Britain featured his great-great-grandfather was a landlord of the pub during the 1880s. Oliver was shown visiting the Ten Bells to discuss his East London roots, and to see how Londoners lived, drank and ate at the end of the 19th century.
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Old Spitalfields Market (2017) This is a covered market which has been on the site for over 350 years. In 2005, a regeneration programme resulted in the new public spaces: Bishops Square and Crispin Place, which are now part of the modern Spitalfields Market. A range of public markets runs daily, with independent local stores and restaurants - as well as new office developments.
Credit: Pete Gloria
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A view east along Whitechapel Road including the Pavilion Theatre. The Pavilion was the first major theatre to open in the East End. It opened in 1827 and closed in 1935.
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St Mary’s (Whitechapel) station (1916) This existed between 1884 and 1938 between Aldgate East and Whitechapel.
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Brick Lane streetsign.
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Buxton Street art, Spitalfields
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Commercial Street looking south, c.1907. Spitalfields Market is on the right.
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Victoria and Albert Cottages take the form of two ranges of modest two-storey houses built along Deal Street, Spitalfields between 1857 and 1865
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