Vallance Road, E2

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

In 1788, much of the original Willetts Estate south of Bethnal Green Road had been divided into lots. Most of the lots were leased for 99 years to Surrey builder John May Evans and William Timmins, a brickmaker. They immediately built along Bethnal Green Road, including Shepherd’s Place (Shepherd’s Row) and streets running south from it, named after the estate owners: White Street, Thomas Street and Charles Streets.

The Vallance Road name originated in 1896 - W. Vallance was clerk to the Metropolitan Board of Guardians. It is now a long road in an area steeped in history.

Hughes Mansions, further south, was mostly destroyed by the final V2 rocket to fall on London. East End gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray lived with their family at 178 Vallance Road from 1939.

Main source:	A History of the County of Middlesex \| British History Online
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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
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
Boo Horton Stepney Green, E1 Added: 31 May 2021 13:39 GMT	Angel & Trumpet, Stepney Green The Angel & Trumpet Public House in Stepney Green was run by my ancestors in the 1930’s. Unfortunately, it was a victim on WWII and was badly damaged and subsequently demolished. I have one photograph that I believe to bethe pub, but it doesn’t show much more that my Great Aunt cleaning the steps. 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
The Underground Map Aldgate Added: 8 Mar 2021 15:05 GMT	A plague on all your houses Aldgate station is built directly on top of a vast plague pit, where thousands of bodies are apparently buried. No-one knows quite how many. Reply

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

Satchwell Street,

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

Scott Street, E1

Seabright Street, E2 Seabright Street is a shadow of its former self.

Seabright Street, E2

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

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

Sheba Street,

Sivill House, E2 Sivill House is sited on Columbia Road.

Sivill House, E2

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

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

Somerford Street, E1

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

Southampton Terrace,

Soyeux Apartments, E1 Soyeux Apartments is a block on Scott Street.

Soyeux Apartments, E1

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

Speakman House, E2

Squerries Street, E1 Squerries Street is an old East End street.

Squerries Street, E1

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

Squirries Street, E2

St Andrew Street, E1 St Andrew Street is an old East End street.

St Andrew Street, E1

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

St Matthews Row, E2

Stapleton House, E2 Stapleton House is a block on Ellsworth Street.

Stapleton House, 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

Stockton House, E2 Residential block

Stockton House, 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

Summerford Street, E1 Summerford Street is an old East End street.

Summerford Street, E1

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

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

Tap Street,

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

Tapp Street, E2

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

Tassaduq Ahmed House, 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

Thomas Burt House, E2 Thomas Burt House can be found on Canrobert Street.

Thomas Burt House, E2

Thornaby House, E2 Thornaby House is located on Canrobert Street.

Thornaby House, E2

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

Thorold Street,

Threaders Apartments, E2 Threaders Apartments is a block on Jersey Street.

Threaders Apartments, E2

Three Colt Lane, Three Colt Lane is an old East End street.

Three Colt Lane,

Three Colts Lane, E1 Three Colts Lane is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Three Colts Lane, E1

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

Torrance House, E2

Tria Apartments, E2 Tria Apartments is a block on Durant Street.

Tria Apartments, E2

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

Turin 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

Verdigris Apartments, E2 Verdigris Apartments is a block on Old Bethnal Green Road.

Verdigris Apartments, E2

Viaduct Place, E2 Viaduct Place connects Viaduct Street with Seabright Street.

Viaduct Place, E2

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

Viaduct Street, E2

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

Violet Street,

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

Voss Street, E2

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

Wellington Place, Wellington Place is an old East End street.

Wellington Place,

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

Wellington Row, E2

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

Westhope House, E2

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

White Street, E2

William Channing House, E2 William Channing House is a block on Canrobert Street.

William Channing House, E2

Wilmot Street, E2 Wilmot Street is one of the older Bethnal Green streets.

Wilmot Street, E2

Winchester Street, E1 Winchester Street is an old East End street.

Winchester Street, E1

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

Wolverley Street,

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

Wood Close, E2

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

Yates House, E2

NEARBY PUBS

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

Gibraltar Tavern

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Bethnal Green

Bethnal Green - a happy corner

Bethnal Green is located 3.3 miles northeast of Charing Cross, It was historically an agrarian hamlet in the ancient parish of Stepney, Middlesex.

The name Blithehale or Blythenhale, the earliest form of Bethnal Green, is derived from the Anglo-Saxon healh (’angle, nook, or corner’) and blithe (’happy, blithe’).

Following population increases caused by the expansion of London during the 18th century, it was split off as the parish of Bethnal Green in 1743, becoming part of the Metropolis in 1855 and the County of London in 1889. The parish became the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green in 1900 and the population peaked in 1901, entering a period of steady decline which lasted until 1981. Bethnal Green has formed part of Greater London since 1965.

The economic history of Bethnal Green is characterised by a shift away from agricultural provision for the City of London to market gardening, weaving and light industry, which has now all but disappeared.

By about 1860 Bethnal Green was mainly full of tumbledown old buildings with many families living in each house. By the end of the century, Bethnal Green was one of the poorest slums in London. Jack the Ripper operated at the western end of Bethnal Green and in neighbouring Whitechapel. In 1900, the Old Nichol Street Rookery was demolished, and the Boundary Estate opened on the site near the boundary with Shoreditch. This was the world’s first council housing. The quality of the built environment was radically reformed by the aerial bombardment of World War II and the subsequent social housing developments.

Bethnal Green has a tube station on the Central Line of the London Underground. The station was opened as part of the long planned Central Line eastern extension on 4 December 1946; before that it was used as an air-raid shelter. On 3 March 1943, 173 people were killed in a crush while attempting to enter the shelter.

The station is an example of the New Works Programme 1935 - 1940 style adopted by London Transport for its new tube stations. Extensive use is made of pale yellow tiling, originally manufactured by Poole Pottery. The finishes include relief tiles, showing symbols of London and the area served by the London Passenger Transport Board, designed by Harold Stabler. The station entrances, all in the form of subway access staircases to the subterranean ticket hall, all show the design influences of Charles Holden, the consulting architect for London Transport at this time.

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	Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) addressing a "smoking debate" at Toynbee Hall (1902) TUM image id: 1660651336 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Whitechapel Gallery Credit: LeHaye/Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1556738899 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
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:	St Mary’s (Whitechapel) station (1916) This existed between 1884 and 1938 between Aldgate East and Whitechapel. TUM image id: 1667998252 Licence:	Brady Street looking toward the junction with Durward Street, 1979. TUM image id: 1490912211 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Brick Lane streetsign. Credit: James Cridland TUM image id: 1490913219 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Buxton Street art, Spitalfields TUM image id: 1653776269 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Houses in Cambridge Road, Bethnal Green. Cambridge Road was renamed to Cambridge Heath Road in 1938. Credit: English Heritage TUM image id: 1622038350 Licence:	Cheshire Street (1969). Credit: David Granick (1912-80) TUM image id: 1522751823 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Victoria and Albert Cottages take the form of two ranges of modest two-storey houses built along Deal Street, Spitalfields between 1857 and 1865 Credit: Spitalfields Trust TUM image id: 1605904747 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Buck's Row (Durward Street) in 1938. TUM image id: 1490922288 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Florida Street, Bethnal Green, looking east from Pollard Row (1939) The Hope pub on the left TUM image id: 1660579336 Licence: CC BY 2.0

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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
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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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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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Brady Street looking toward the junction with Durward Street, 1979.
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Buxton Street art, Spitalfields
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Cheshire Street (1969).
Credit: David Granick (1912-80)
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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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Buck's Row (Durward Street) in 1938.
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Florida Street, Bethnal Green, looking east from Pollard Row (1939) The Hope pub on the left
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Gibraltar Walk, E2 The photo depicts an earlier section of Gibraltar Walk which fell victim to post-war planners.
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