Sidney Square, E1

Road in/near Stepney Green, existing between the 1820s and now

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Sidney Square is an old square dating from the 1820s.

The East End remained largely agricultural until the early 19th century, with Sidney Square emerging in the 1820s on former fields owned by John Sidney Hawkins, its namesake. This development catered to professionals involved in the rapid expansion of London Docks, with neighbouring streets completed by 1839.

The square’s history is particularly connected with the 1911 Sidney Street Siege. This infamous event saw a dramatic confrontation between two Latvian revolutionaries and the army, overseen by Winston Churchill, then serving as Home Secretary.

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NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE
Vine Tavern The Vine Tavern was situated on a site in the middle of Mile End Road, theoretically at number 31.

NEARBY STREETS
Adam Meere House, E1 Adam Meere House is located on Tarling Street (Shadwell)
Adelina Grove, E1 Adelina Grove became an estate for people displaced by the London Wool Exchange building in 1929 (Stepney)
Adelina Place, E1 Adelina Place was a very narrow side street of Adelina Grove (Stepney)
Agra Place, E1 Before 1890, Agra Place was named Smith’s Place (Shadwell)
Albert Gardens, E1 Albert Gardens, an almost intact late-Georgian residential square (Shadwell)
Anne Goodman House, E1 Anne Goodman House is sited on Jubilee Street (Stepney Green)
Ansell House, E1 Ansell House was the first block built on the Sidney Estate (Stepney)
Antcliff Street, E1 Antcliff Street was probably built by William Antcliff of Newham Street (Stepney)
Antcliffe Street, E1 Antcliffe Street formerly ran off Bromehead Road (Stepney)
Anthony Street, E1 Anthony Street previously ran from Commercial Road through to Cable Street. Just a few metres survive (Stepney)
Apsley House, E1 Apsley House is a block on Aylward Street (Stepney Green)
Apsley Street, E1 Apsley Street was off Redman’s Road (Stepney Green)
Arbour House, E1 Arbour House was designed by B.J. Belsher, the Stepney Borough Surveyor (Stepney Green)
Arbour Square, E1 Arbour Square is a late Georgian square in Stepney (Stepney Green)
Armsby House, E1 Armsby House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Ashfield Street, E1 Ashfield Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Whitechapel)
Assembly Passage, E1 Assembly Passage is a long, cobbled walkway that leads from Mile End Road to Redmans Road (Stepney Green)
Athlone House, E1 Athlone House is a block on Sidney Street (Stepney)
Aylward Street, E1 Aylward Street has a complicated history (Stepney Green)
Barons Street, Barons Street is an old East End street (Shadwell)
Beatrice House, E1 Beatrice House was built after 1996 (Stepney Green)
Beckett House, E1 Beckett House is part of a three block complex facing Jubilee Street (Stepney)
Bedford Square, E1 Bedford Square is an old East End square (Stepney)
Bedford Street, E1 Bedford Square, Shadwell was called Bedford Street after 1894 (Whitechapel)
Bere Street, Bere Street is an old East End street (Shadwell)
Bermuda Street, E1 Bermuda Street was an old East End street (Stepney Green)
Bigland Street, E1 Bigland Street leads east from Cannon Street Road (Shadwell)
Bill Faust House, E1 Bill Faust House is a block on Tarling Street (Shadwell)
Bladen House, E1 Bladen House is a block on Dunelm Street (Stepney Green)
Blakesley Street, Lower John Street was renamed to Blakesley Street, E1 in 1865 (Shadwell)
BLSA Building, E1 BLSA Building is a block on Newark Street (Whitechapel)
Boisseau House, E1 Boisseau House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Brayford Square, E1 Brayford Square is a small shopping area from 1978 (Stepney Green)
Bridgen House, E1 Bridgen House can be found on Philpot Street (Stepney)
Brilliant Street, E1 Brilliant Street was a tiny street linking Silver Street and Gold Street (Stepney Green)
Brinsley House, E1 Brinsley House is a block on Tarling Street (Shadwell)
Bromehead Road, E1 Bromehead Road is a location in London (Stepney)
Bromehead Street, E1 A vestige remains of Bromehead Street, formerly a main connecting street of the area (Stepney)
Burnham Thorpe Court, E1 Burnham Thorpe Court is a block on Nelson Street (Stepney)
Buross Street, E1 Buross Street runs south off Commercial Road (Stepney)
Burwell Close, E1 Burwell Close is a road in the E1 postcode area (Shadwell)
Cameron Place, Frederick Place was called Cameron Place after 1882 (Stepney)
Cannon Place, E1 Cannon Place is an old East End street (Whitechapel)
Carmelo Mews, E1 Carmelo Mews is a mews behind the houses on the east side of Stepney Green (Stepney Green)
Castlemain Street, E1 Castlemain Street is a road in the E1 postcode area (Whitechapel)
Catherine Street, E1 Catherine Street began in the first years of the nineteenth century (Shadwell)
Cavell House, E1 Cavell House is a block on Cavell Street (Stepney)
Cavell Street, E1 Cavell Street is a road in the E1W postcode area (Whitechapel)
Cheviot House, E1 Cheviot House is sited on Commercial Road (Stepney)
Chronos Building, E1 Chronos Building is a building on Mile End Road (Stepney Green)
Clare Alexander House, E1 Clare Alexander House can be found on Turner Street (Whitechapel)
Clark Street, E1 Clark Street is a long and old street of Stepney (Stepney Green)
Clearbrook Way, E1 Clearbrook Way is a modern cul-de-sac, running west off West Arbour Street (Stepney Green)
Clichy House, E1 Clichy House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Clovelly Way, E1 A street within the E1 postcode (Stepney Green)
Coburg Dwellings, E1 Coburg Dwellings is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Stepney)
Colstead House, E1 Colstead House is a block on Watney Market (Stepney)
Colverson House, E1 Colverson House is a block on the Sidney Estate (Stepney)
Comfort House, E1 Comfort House is a block on Turner Street (Stepney)
Commercial Road East, Commercial Road East is an old East End street (Shadwell)
Commercial Road, E1 Commercial Road is a major thoroughfare (the A13) running east-west from the junction of Burdett Road and East India Dock Road to Braham Street (Stepney)
Cornwood Drive, E1 Cornwood Drive runs off Jubilee Street (Stepney)
Court Street, E1 Court Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Whitechapel)
Cressy Court, E1 Cressy Court was called Little Union Place until 1937 (Stepney Green)
Cressy House, E1 Cressy House was built at the corner of Cressy Place and Hannibal Road in 1894 (Stepney Green)
Cressy Place, E1 Cressy Place is one of the older streets in Stepney Green (Stepney Green)
Dagobert House, E1 Dagobert House is a block on Smithy Street (Stepney)
Damien Court, E1 Damien Court is a block on Damien Street (Stepney)
Damien Street, E1 Damien Street is a road in the E1 postcode area (Stepney)
Dawson House, E1 Dawson House is a block on Walden Street (Whitechapel)
Dean House, E1 Dean House is a block on Tarling Street (Shadwell)
Dean Street, Cross Street became Dean Street in 1865 (4777) (Shadwell)
Deancross Street, E1 Deancross Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Shadwell)
Define House, E1 Define House is a block on Hessel Street (Mile End)
Dempsey Street, E1 Dempsey Street was created before 1830 along with surrounding streets (Stepney Green)
Dickson House, E1 Dickson House is a building on Philpot Street (Stepney)
Drake House, E1 Drake House can be found on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Dron House, E1 Dron House is a block on Adelina Grove (Stepney)
Dunch Street, E1 Dunch Street is a street in (Shadwell)
Dundalk House, E1 Dundalk House faces Clark Street (Stepney Green)
Dunelm Street, E1 Fair Street was renamed Dunelm Street in 1939 (Stepney Green)
Dunstan Houses, E1 Dunstan Houses on Stepney Green were built in 1899 by the East End Dwellings Company to provide housing for the poor (Stepney Green)
Durward Street, E1 Durward Street is a narrow thoroughfare running east-west from Brady Street to Baker’s Row (today’s Vallance Road) (Whitechapel)
East Arbour Street, E1 East Arbour Street leads north from Arbour Square (Stepney Green)
East Cross Centre, E1 East Cross Centre is one of the streets of London in the E15 postal area (Stepney)
East Mount Street, E1 East Mount Street is a road in the E1 postcode area (Whitechapel)
Elan Court, E1 Elan Court is a block on Newark Street (Whitechapel)
Elektra House, E1 Elektra House is a block on Ashfield Street (Stepney)
Ellen Julia Court, E1 Ellen Julia Court is a block on James Voller Way (Shadwell)
Empire House, E1 Empire House is a block on New Road (Whitechapel)
Epping Place, E1 Epping Place was an old name for the northernmost end of Sidney Street (Whitechapel)
Exmouth Court, E1 Exmouth Court appears on the 1900 map (Stepney Green)
Exmouth Place, E1 Exmouth Place is on the 1860 map (Stepney Green)
Exmouth Street, E1 Exmouth Street was largely destroyed during the Second World War and replaced by residential blocks on the Clicky Estate (Stepney)
Fabian House, E1 Fabian House is a block on Cannon Street Road (Shadwell)
Fair Street, E1 Fair Street ran from Oxford Street to Charles Street (Stepney Green)
Fenton Street, E1 Fenton Street runs south from Commercial Road (Stepney)
Flintlock Close, E1 Flintlock Close is a location in London (Stepney)
Floyer House, E1 Floyer House is a block on Philpot Street (Whitechapel)
Ford House, E1 Ford House is a block on Ford Square (Stepney)
Ford Square, E1 Ford Square is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Stepney)
Fulbourne Street, E1 Fulbourne Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Whitechapel)
Gardom Street, E1 Gardom Street was a former street of Stepney (Stepney Green)
Garrod Building, E1 Garrod Building is a block on Turner Street (Whitechapel)
Gateway House, E1 Gateway House is a block on Cavell Street (Stepney)
George Scott House, E1 George Scott House is a block on West Arbour Street (Stepney Green)
Gold Street, E1 Prospect Place was renamed as Gold Street in 1882 (Stepney Green)
Gray Street, Gray Street is an old East End street (Stepney)
Greenwich Court, E1 Greenwich Court is sited on Cavell Street (Stepney)
Grove Dwellings, E1 Grove Dwellings - in separate blocks - were built in 1910 on land leased from the Mercers company (Stepney)
Gwynne House, E1 Gwynne House is located on Turner Street (Whitechapel)
Hainton Close, E1 Hainton Close is a road in the E1 postcode area (Shadwell)
Halcrow Street, E1 A street within the E1 postcode (Whitechapel)
Hannah Building, E1 Hannah Building is sited on Watney Street (Shadwell)
Hannibal Road, E1 Hannibal Road leads south from the junction of Mile End Road and Stepney Green (Stepney Green)
Hare Street, E1 Hare Street once ran from Silver Street to Pole Street (Stepney Green)
Harriott House, E1 Harriott House is a block on Jamaica Street (Stepney Green)
Hawkins Street, E1 Hawkins Street is an old East End street, appearing on maps during the 1840s (Stepney)
Henry Brierley House, E1 Henry Brierley House is a block on Varden Street (Stepney)
Hessel Street, E1 Hessel Street commemorates Phoebe Hessel (1713-1821), called ’the Stepney Amazon’, who joined the army to be near her lover (Mile End)
Horace Evans House, E1 Horace Evans House is a block on Ashfield Street (Whitechapel)
Hubert Ashton House, E1 Hubert Ashton House is a block on Varden Street (Stepney)
Hungerford Street, Hungerford Street is an old East End street (Shadwell)
Hunter Street, Hunter Street is an old East End street (Stepney)
Ivy House, E1 Ivy House is a block on Nelson Street (Stepney)
Jamaica Street, E1 Jamaica Street is the successor street to King Street (Stepney)
Jane Street, E1 Jane Street is now only a few yards long, with no houses (Stepney)
Jarman House, E1 Jarman House, Beckett House and Wingrand House were built as a single block on the Sidney Estate (Stepney)
Jean Pardies House, E1 Jean Pardies House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
John Garnett House, E1 John Garnett House is located on Newark Street (Whitechapel)
John Harrison House, E1 John Harrison House is a block on Varden Street (Whitechapel)
Johns Place, E1 Despite a post-war expansion of the road name, Johns Place is an older street of Stepney (Stepney)
Joscoyne House, E1 Joscoyne House is a block on Philpot Street (Stepney)
Joseph Street, Joseph Street is an old East End street (Stepney)
Jubilee Mansions, E1 Jubilee Mansions is a block built by Stepney Borough Council between the wars (Stepney Green)
Jubilee Street, E1 Jubilee Street was built off the then-new Commercial Road and named to commemorate the Jubilee of George III in 1810. (Stepney Green)
Justice Apartments, E1 Justice Apartments is a block on Aylward Street (Stepney Green)
Kempton Court, E1 Kempton Court is a block on Durward Street, built in 1995 (Whitechapel)
Kent House, E1 Kent House is a block on Varden Street (Whitechapel)
Kerry House, E1 Kerry House is a block on the southern part of the Sidney Estate (Stepney)
Kinder Street, E1 A street within the E1 postcode (Shadwell)
King Street, E1 King Street was one of two King Streets in Stepney, the other being nearer to Bethnal Green (Stepney)
Lady Micos Almshouses, E1 Lady Micos Almshouses offers lodgings exclusively for women in Stepney (Stepney Green)
Langdale Street, E1 Langdale Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area
Le Moal House, E1 Le Moal House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Leigh House, E1 Leigh House is a block on Halcrow Street (Whitechapel)
Levitas House, E1 Levitas House are flats situated on Jubilee Street, dating from 2020 (Stepney Green)
Lindley House, E1 Lindley House is a block on Lindley Street (Stepney)
Lindley Street, E1 Lindley Street first appeared on a Stepney map during the 1840s (Stepney)
Little Turner Street, Little Turner Street is an old East End street (Shadwell)
Longford House, E1 Longford House is a one of a number of Irish county themed blocks dating from the late 1950s (Stepney)
Louise De Marillac House, E1 Louise De Marillac House is a block on Jubilee Street (Stepney)
Lower Chapman Street, Lower Chapman Street is an old East End street (Shadwell)
Maples Place, E1 Cannon Place became Maples Place in 1938 (Whitechapel)
Mariana Court, E1 Mariana Court is a block on Assembly Passage (Stepney)
Marshgate House, E1 Marshgate House is a building on Bromehead Street (Stepney)
Matcham Court, E1 Matcham Court is a block on Hannibal Road (Stepney Green)
Mayo House, E1 Mayo House is a block on Lindley Street (Stepney)
Mellish House, E1 Mellish House is a block on Varden Street (Stepney)
Melwood House, E1 Melwood House is a block on Watney Street (Shadwell)
Milward Street, E1 Milward Street is a road in the E1 postcode area (Whitechapel)
Monkton Terrace , Monkton Terrace is an old East End street (Mile End)
Morton Close, E1 This is a street in the E1 postcode area (Shadwell)
Mount Terrace, E1 Mount Terrace is a road in the E1 postcode area (Whitechapel)
Mullan House, E1 Mullan House is a block on Nelson Street (Stepney)
Musbury Street, E1 Musbury Street is a street of post-war blocks of flats (Stepney Green)
Nelson Street, E1 Nelson Street runs between New Road and Cavell Street (Stepney)
New Road, E1 New Road is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Whitechapel)
Newark Street, E1 Newark Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Whitechapel)
Newbold Cottages, E1 Newbold Cottages is a block in Stepney (Stepney Green)
Newbold Street, E1 First appearing on the 1870 map, Newbold Street disappeared during the post-war rebuilding of the area (Stepney Green)
Nijjer House, E1 Nijjer House is a block on Commercial Road (Stepney)
O’Leary Square, E1 O’Leary Square is a development of the Sidney Estate (Stepney)
Odette Duval House, E1 Odette Duval House is a 9-storey block containing 52 dwellings (Stepney)
Oley Place, E1 Oley Place - originally Wellington Street - was part of an estate belonging to Clare College, Cambridge (Stepney Green)
Oxford Street, Green Street was renamed to Oxford Street, E1 in 1867 (Whitechapel)
Pace Place, E1 Pace Place was formerly Little Ann Street before 1937 (Shadwell)
Pacific Court, E1 Pacific Court is a building on Assembly Passage (Stepney)
Painter House, E1 Painter House is a block on Sidney Street (Stepney)
Park House, E1 Park House is a block on Mile End Road (Stepney Green)
Pattison House, E1 Pattison House is a block on Aylward Street (Stepney Green)
Pattison Street, E1 Pattison Street ran southeast from a junction with Jamaica Street (Stepney Green)
Perth Street, E1 Perth Street was created as St Vincent Street during the 1830s (Stepney Green)
Peter Best House, E1 Peter Best House can be found on Nelson Street (Stepney)
Philpot Street, E1 Philpot Street commemorates the prominent local family of Philpot or Philipot; (Stepney)
Planet Street, Star Street, Commercial Road East was called Planet Street after 1891 (Shadwell)
Pole Street, E1 Pole Street became part of Stepney Green Park (Stepney Green)
Porchester House, E1 Porchester House is sited on Varden Street (Whitechapel)
Princes Street, E1 Princes Street was a former name for the northern section of Dempsey Street (Stepney)
Railton House, E1 Railton House is a block on Arbour Square (Shadwell)
Rampart Street, E1 Rampart Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Stepney)
Raven Row, E1 Raven Row appears in 1832, probably named for the builder. (Whitechapel)
Recurrence Apartments, E1 Recurrence Apartments is located on Commercial Road (Stepney)
Redmans Road, E1 Redmans Road is a long east-west road of Stepney (Stepney Green)
Richard Street, E1 Richard Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Stepney)
Richardson Street, E1 Richardson Street ran from Lindley Street to Wolsey Street (Stepney)
Rochelle Court, E1 Rochelle Court are flats with shops underneath from 1938 (Shadwell)
Roland Mews, E1 Roland Mews emerges through an archway under Roland House (Stepney Green)
Ronald Street, E1 Ronald Street appeared in a series of parallel streets first emerging in the 1830s (Shadwell)
Russell Street, E1 Little Russell Street became Russell Street in 1864 (7996) (Whitechapel)
Rutland Street, New Rutland Street was given the name Rutland Street, E1 in 1864 (Stepney)
Sambrook House, E1 Sambrook House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Sandhurst House, E1 Sandhurst House can be found on Wolsey Street (Stepney)
Shead Court, E1 Shead Court is a block on James Voller Way (Shadwell)
Sheridan Street, John Street was given the name Sheridan Street, E1 in 1864 (Shadwell)
Sidney Square, E1 Sidney Square is an old square dating from the 1820s (Stepney Green)
Sidney Street, E1 Sidney Street is a notably historic street of the East End (Stepney)
Siege House, E1 Siege House is a 10-storey block containing 70 dwellings (Stepney)
Silver Street, E1 Silver Street ran parallel with Gold Street, though it was narrower (Stepney Green)
Silvester House, E1 Silvester House can be found on Varden Street (Stepney)
Sims House, E1 Sims House is a block on Havering Street (Shadwell)
Sly Street, E1 Sly Street commemorates R.S. Sly - member of the vestry of the parish of St George’s in the East. (Stepney)
Smith Street, E1 Because of the number of Smith Streets in London, the road became Smithy Street during the 1930s (Stepney)
Smithy Street, E1 Smithy Street was called Smith Street until 1938 (Stepney)
Somerset House, E1 Somerset House is a block on New Road (Stepney)
St Philip’s House, E1 St Philip’s House is located on Stepney Way (Whitechapel)
St Thomas House, E1 St Thomas House is a block on East Arbour Street (Stepney Green)
Star Street, E1 Star Street was, for a while, Planet Street (Shadwell)
Stepney City Apartments, E1 Stepney City Apartments is a former Victorian school, converted into flats (Stepney Green)
Stepney Green Court, E1 Stepney Green Court is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Whitechapel)
Stepney Way, E1 Stepney Way is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Stepney)
Stifford House, E1 Stifford House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney Green)
Summercourt Road, E1 Summercourt Road is parallel with Commercial Road, one block north (Stepney Green)
Swan Place, E1 Swan Place was an old road absorbed during the nineteenth century into Sidney Street (Stepney)
Tarling Street, E1 Tarling Street appears on maps of 1832 and 1855 as Terling Street, and may have been named from the builder (Shadwell)
Tate Apartments, E1 Tate Apartments is a block on Sly Street (Stepney)
Timberland Road, E1 Timberland Road is a road in the E1 postcode area (Shadwell)
Tree House, E1 Tree House is located on Jubilee Street (Stepney)
Trinity Mews, E1 Trinity Mews is a modern development (Stepney)
Turner Street, E1 Turner Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Whitechapel)
Tylney House, E1 Tylney House is located on Nelson Street (Stepney)
Upper Fenton Street, Upper Fenton Street is an old East End street (Stepney)
Varden Street, E1 Varden Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Stepney)
Vine Cottages, E1 Vine Cottages is the name of a 1960s block facing Jubilee Gardens (Stepney Green)
Walden Street, E1 Walden Street is a road in the E1 postcode area (Whitechapel)
Watney Market, E1 A street within the E1 postcode (Shadwell)
Wellesley Street, E1 Wellesley Street was severely truncated post-war (Stepney Green)
West Arbour Street, E1 West Arbour Street runs north from Commercial Road to Aylward Street (Stepney Green)
Wetton House, E1 Wetton House overlooks the southern edge of Stepney Green Park (Stepney Green)
Wexford House, E1 Wexford House is a 6-storey block containing 44 dwellings (Stepney)
Whittington Apartments, E1 Whittington Apartments is the name for a block of flats on East Arbour Street (Stepney Green)
Wickham Close, E1 Wickham Close is a modern cul-de-sac leading east off Jamaica Street (Stepney)
William Fry House, E1 William Fry House is a block on the corner of West Arbour Street and Aylward Street (Stepney Green)
Wilton Court, E1 Wilton Court is a block on Cavell Street (Whitechapel)
Wingrad House, E1 Wingrad House is a block on the northern section of Jubilee Street (Stepney)
Winterton House, E1 Winterton House is a block on Deancross Street (Shadwell)
Winterton Street, E1 In Stepney E1, Devonshire Street became Winterton Street in 1890 (Shadwell)
Winthrop Street, E1 Winthrop Street was formerly a narrow street running east-west from Brady Street to Durward Street (Whitechapel)
Wolsey Street, E1 Wolsey Street is an old East End street of which a tiny remnant remains (Stepney)
Wood’s Buildings, E1 Wood’s Buildings, a narrow passageway, extended north from Whitechapel Road and led to Winthrop Street. (Whitechapel)
Woollen House, E1 Woollen House is a block on Clark Street (Stepney Green)
Zion House, E1 Zion House is a residential building comprising 35 flats (Stepney Green)


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