Cambay House, E1

Block in/near Stepney Green

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Cambay House is located on Harford Street.


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Mark G   
Added: 26 Oct 2024 21:54 GMT   

Skidmore Street, E1
Skidmore Street was located where present day Ernest Street and Solebay Street now stand. They are both located above Shandy Street and Commodore Street.

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Added: 9 Jan 2025 18:51 GMT   

Parkers Row, SE1
My great great grandmother, and her soon to be husband, lived in Parker’s Row before their marriage in St James in June 1839. Thier names were - Jane Elizabeth Turner and Charles Frederick Dean. She was a hat trimmer and he was a tailor.

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Lindsay Trott   
Added: 1 Jan 2025 17:55 GMT   

Lockside not on 1939 Register
I have the Denby family living in Lockside in 1938 but it does not appear on the 1939 Register.

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Janelle Robbins   
Added: 27 Dec 2024 18:47 GMT   

Harriet Robbins
Please get in touch re Harriet Robbins


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Dave Hinves   
Added: 27 Nov 2024 03:55 GMT   

he was a School Teacher
Henry sailed from Graves End 1849 on ’The Woodbridge’ arrived South Australia 1850. In 1858 he married Julia Ann Walsh at Burra, South Australia, they had 3 children, and 36 grand children. Died 24 June 1896 at Wilmington, South Australia. He is my 1st cousin 3x removed.

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Kevin Pont   
Added: 23 Nov 2024 17:03 GMT   

St Georges Square
This is rather lovely and well worth a visit!

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Simon Chapman   
Added: 22 Nov 2024 17:47 GMT   

Blossom Place
My Great Great Grandmother, Harriett Robbins lived in 2 Blossom Place in 1865 before marrying my Great Great Grandfather. They moved to 23 Spitall Square.

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Alan Russell   
Added: 26 Oct 2024 14:36 GMT   

Cheshire Street, London E2 - 1969
Cheshire Street, London E2 - 1969

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GrahamClayton   
Added: 10 Oct 2024 19:42 GMT   

Armed guard during 1919 civil unrest
During the 1919 civil unrest, a company of soldiers guarded the power station day and night - if it was forced to close down, a large part of London’s transport system would be inoperable.

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NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE
Black Boy The Black Boy public house stood on the Mile End Road.
Mile End Mile End is recorded in 1288 as ’La Mile ende’ and means ’the hamlet a mile away’.
Stepney Green Stepney Green tube station lies on the corner of Mile End Road and Globe Road in the Stepney neighbourhood of east London.

NEARBY STREETS
Adriatic House, E1 Adriatic House is located on Ernest Street (Stepney Green)
Alderney Road, E1 Alderney Road began as a pathway called Alderney Place during the 1830s (Stepney Green)
Alfred Street, E1 Alfred Street was the precursor street to Shandy Street (Stepney Green)
Anson House, E1 Anson House is a block on Shandy Street (Stepney Green)
Arabian House, E1 Arabian House is sited on Ernst Road (Stepney Green)
Aral House, E1 Aral House is sited on Ernest Street (Stepney Green)
Argyle Road, E1 Argyle Road followed Carlton Square as an 1850s development by William Pemberton Barnes (Stepney Green)
Azov House, E1 Azov House is a block on Sandalwood Close (Stepney Green)
Bale Road, E1 Bale Road runs along the southern edge of Shandy Park (Stepney Green)
Baltonsborough Court, E1 Baltonsborough Court is located on Ben Jonson Road (Stepney Green)
Bancroft Road, E1 Bancroft Road was constructed in stages between 1820 and 1850 (Stepney Green)
Bancroft’s Almshouses, E1 Bencroft’s Hospital and School, established in 1737, was on the north side of Mile End Road (Mile End)
Bantry House, E1 Bantry House was commissioned in 1953 (Stepney Green)
Barents House, E1 Barents House is the westernmost block on the Ocean Estate (Stepney Green)
Beaufort Gardens, E1 Beaufort Gardens runs down from Shandy Street to Trafalgar Gardens (Stepney Green)
Beaumont Grove, E1 Beaumont Grove runs south from Mile End Road (Stepney Green)
Beaumont Square, E1 Beaumont Square is a garden square that was laid out in 1840 as the centerpiece of the Beaumont Estate, a housing development by Captain J T Barber Beaumont. (Stepney Green)
Beaumont Street, E1 Beaumont Street was the predecessor name to Beaumont Grove (Stepney Green)
Beckley House, E3 Beckley House is a building on Hamlets Way (Mile End)
Ben Jonson Road, E1 The satiric dramatist Ben Jonson (or Johnson) died in 1637. (Stepney Green)
Bermuda Way, E1 Bermuda Way runs between two residential blocks (Stepney Green)
Biscay House, E1 Biscay House faces Mile End Road (Stepney Green)
Blackett Apartments, E3 Blackett Apartments is a block on Rushton Walk (Mile End)
Bootmakers Court, E1 Bootmakers Court is a block on Ben Jonson Road (Stepney Green)
Broadford House, E1 Broadford House is a block on Commodore Street (Mile End)
Burdett Road, E3 Burdett Road is a major north-south road in east London (Mile End)
Butcombe House, E3 Butcombe House is a block on Lulsgate Mews (Mile End)
Buttermere House, E3 Buttermere House is a block on Southern Grove (Mile End)
Calverley Street, E1 Calverley Street (as Calverley Walk) disappeared when the Ocean Estate was built over its site (Stepney Green)
Calverley Walk, E1 Calverley Street was renamed as Calverley Walk in 1938 (Stepney Green)
Cambay House, E1 Cambay House is located on Harford Street (Stepney Green)
Canal Close, E1 Canal Close is a road in the E1 postcode area (Mile End)
Candle Street, E1 Candle Street was built over the site of the former Stepney Gasworks (Stepney Green)
Carlton Square, E1 The houses in the Carlton Square area were developed in the 1850s by William Pemberton Barnes on open land known as Globe Fields. (Stepney Green)
Carlyle Mews, E1 A street within the E1 postcode (Stepney Green)
Carpenter House, E1 Carpenter House faces Trafalgar Gardens (Stepney Green)
Chapman House, E1 Chapman House is sited on Westfield Way (Mile End)
Chesney House, E1 Chesney House is a block on Westfield Way (Mile End)
Clementina Court, E3 Clementina Court is a block situated on the Regent’s Canal (Mile End)
Coalstore Court, E1 Coalstore Court is sited on Candle Street (Stepney Green)
Colmar Close, E1 Colmar Close was redeveloped out of the southern part of the former Carlton Road (now Portelet Road) (Stepney Green)
Commodore Street, E1 Commodore Street is the eastern extension of Shandy Street (Stepney Green)
Coniston House, E3 Coniston House is a block on Southern Grove (Mile End)
Copperfield Road, E3 Copperfield Road is one of the streets of London in the E3 postal area (Mile End)
Coral House, E1 Coral House is a block on Harford Street (Stepney Green)
Cromarty House, E1 Cromarty House is a block on Aston Street (Stepney Green)
Dame Colet House, E1 Dame Colet House is a block on Ben Jonson Road (Stepney Green)
Derwent House, E3 Derwent House is a block on Rushton Walk (Mile End)
Dongola Road, E1 Dongola Road connects Duckett Street and Harford Street (Stepney Green)
Downey House, E1 Downey House is a block on Globe Road (Stepney Green)
Downy House, E1 Downy House is a residential block near to the Horn of Plenty (Stepney Green)
Driver’s Buildings, E1 Driver’s Buildings was a courtyard off Mile End Road (Stepney Green)
Duckett Street, E1 Duckett Street runs from Ernest Street to Ben Jonson Road (Stepney Green)
Dundry House, E3 Dundry House is a block on Eric Street (Mile End)
Eastbury Terrace, E1 Eastbury Terrace has a complicated history as a street name (Stepney Green)
Eaton Place, E1 Eaton Place seems to have originated in the 1860s and was renamed Shiloh Place in 1938 (Stepney Green)
Edith Ramsey House, E1 Edith Ramsey House is a block on Duckett Street (Stepney Green)
Ely Terrace, E1 Friendly Place was renamed Ely Terrace in 1879 (Stepney Green)
Emmott Close, E1 Emmott Close runs parallel to the Grand Union Canal (Mile End)
Eric Street, E3 Eric Street runs south from Mile End Road (Mile End)
Ernest Street, E1 Ernest Street was one of the few streets in the area to survive the Blitz (Stepney Green)
Essian Street, E1 Essian Street was formerly Emmott Street, replacing it in 1963 (Stepney Green)
Falkenham House, E3 Falkenham House is a block on Portia Way (Mile End)
Farrier Court, E1 Farrier Court is a block on the corner of White Horse Lane and Killick Way (Stepney Green)
Fielder & Clarke Apartments, E3 Fielder & Clarke Apartments is a building on Hamlets Way (Mile End)
Firewatch Court, E1 Firewatch Court is a block on Candle Street (Stepney Green)
Flanaghan Apartments, E3 Flanaghan Apartments is located on Portia Way (Mile End)
Floreston Street, E1 Floreston Street seems to have been added to the Stepney Green area during the 1860s (Stepney Green)
Formosa House, E1 Formosa House is a residential block, commissioned in 1956 (Stepney Green)
Francis Bancroft Building, E1 The Francis Bancroft Building is one of the blocks surrounding the Novo Cemetery (Mile End)
Friendly Place, E1 Friendly Place ran behind buildings on Mile End Road (Stepney Green)
Frimley Street, E1 The remaining evidence of Frimley Street is a short, unnamed alleyway off the Mile End Road (Stepney Green)
Frimley Way, E1 Frimley Way was built after 1966 by the London County Council (Stepney Green)
Galveston House, E1 Galveston House’s six floors contain 60 flats (Stepney Green)
Galway House, E1 Galway House is a block on White Horse Lane (Stepney Green)
Genoa House, E1 Genoa House is located on Mile End Road (Stepney Green)
Geography Square, E1 Geography Square is an open space within Queen Mary University of London (Mile End)
Godward Square, E1 Godward Square is a road in the E1 postcode area (Mile End)
Grand Walk, E1 A street within the E1 postcode (Mile End)
Grantley Street, E1 Grantley Street was formerly called Grafton Street until 1938 (Stepney Green)
Gray Court, E14 Gray Court is a block on Ben Johnson Road (Stepney Green)
Grebe Court, E1 Swan Court - later Grebe Court - was a small courtyard off Driver’s Buildings (Stepney Green)
Greenland House, E1 Greenland House is a block on Ernest Street (Stepney Green)
Halley Street, E14 Halley Street was previously called Alley Street (Stepney Green)
Hamlets Way, E3 Hamlets Way is one of the streets of London in the E3 postal area (Mile End)
Harford Street, E1 Harford Street is a long north-south street of Stepney Green (Stepney Green)
Hawke House, E1 Hawke House was commissioned in 1953 by the London County Council (Stepney Green)
Holton Street, E1 Holton Street is a street in two sections, divided by Carlton Square (Stepney Green)
Horseley Court, E1 Horseley Court is a block on Candle Street, built sometime between 2002 and 2006 (Stepney Green)
Ifor Evans Place, E1 Ifor Evans Place is named after Sir Ifor Leslie Evans (1897-1952) (Stepney Green)
Informatics Teaching Laboratory Building, E1 The Informatics Teaching Laboratory Building is part of the Queen Mary University of London (Stepney Green)
Ionian House, E1 Ionian House is a block on Ernest Street (Stepney Green)
Jacqueline House, E1 Jacqueline House is a building on White Horse Lane (Stepney Green)
James House, E1 James House is a one 6-storey block containing 52 dwellings (Mile End)
Joben Court, E1 Joben Court is located on Whitman Road (Mile End)
Johnson Lock Court, E1 Johnson Lock Court can be found on Candle Street (Stepney Green)
Keats Apartments, E3 Keats Apartments is a block on Hamlets Way (Mile End)
Killick Way, E1 Killick Way is a modern road south of the Ocean Estate (Stepney Green)
Kiln House, E1 Kiln House is a block on Killick Way (Stepney Green)
King John Street, E1 King John Street leads off Stepney Green (Stepney Green)
Lace Court, E1 Lace Court is sited on Masters Street (Stepney Green)
Lawton Road, E3 Lawton Road is a road in the E3 postcode area (Mile End)
Leatherdale Street, E2 After 1882, the new name for York Street was Leatherdale Street, E2 (Stepney Green)
Levant House, E1 Levant House is a six-story block with 24 flats on the Ocean Estate (Stepney Green)
Lorne House, E1 Lorne House can be found on Ben Jonson Road (Stepney Green)
Louisa Street, E1 Louisa Street leads off Beaumont Grove (Stepney Green)
Lower John Street, E1 Lower John Street (also simply ’John Street’) was short-lived street name of Stepney (Stepney Green)
Lydia Street, E1 Lydia Street was located along White Horse Lane just north of the modern Shandy Street (Stepney Green)
Magellan House, E1 Magellan House, a six-storey block with 23 flats, is part of the Ocean Estate (Stepney Green)
Maplin Street, E3 Maplin Street is a road in the E3 postcode area (Mile End)
Maria Terrace, E1 Maria Terrace lies off Beaumont Square (Stepney Green)
Masters Street, E1 Masters Street is the western extension of Bohn Road (Stepney Green)
Mathematical Sciences Building, E1 The Mathematical Sciences Building is part of Queen Mary University of London (Stepney Green)
Maynard House, E1 Maynard House is a block on Westfield Way (Mile End)
Mercer Court, E1 Mercer Court was built sometime between 2002 and 2006 (Stepney Green)
Midlothian Road, E3 Midlothian Road is one of the streets of London in the E3 postal area (Mile End)
Mile End Place, E1 A quiet side street off the bustling Mile End Road, lies a small and enchanting enclave known as Mile End Place. (Stepney Green)
Mile End Road, E3 Mile End Road is a main thoroughfare of the East End (Mile End)
Milrood House, E1 Milrood House is a block on Stepney Green (Stepney Green)
Monsey Place, E1 Monsey Place serves the Rhodewell Apartments (Stepney Green)
Moray House, E1 Moray House can be found on Sandalwood Close (Mile End)
Morecambe Close, E1 Morecambe Close is a modern road leading off Beaumont Square (Stepney Green)
Norfolk Street, E1 Norfolk Street ran east from Globe Road (Stepney Green)
Oley Place, E1 Oley Place - originally Wellington Street - was part of an estate belonging to Clare College, Cambridge (Stepney Green)
Pacific House, E1 Pacific House is a block on Ernest Street (Stepney Green)
Palliser House, E1 Palliser House can be found on Ernest Street (Stepney Green)
Panama House, E1 Panama House is a block on Beaumont Square (Stepney Green)
Pegasus House, E1 Pegasus House is one of the post-war blocks surrounding Beaumont Square (Stepney Green)
Peter Landin Building, E1 Peter Landin Building is a building on Godward Square (Mile End)
Pevensey House, E1 Pevensey House is a block on Ben Jonson Road (Stepney Green)
Pole Street, E1 Pole Street became part of Stepney Green Park (Stepney Green)
Portelet Road, E1 Portelet Road runs north from Carlton Square (Stepney Green)
Portia Way, E3 Portia Way is a road in the E3 postcode area (Mile End)
Portishead House, E3 Portishead House is located on Wraxall Road (Mile End)
Potter House, E1 Potter House is a block on Beaufort Gardens (Stepney Green)
Press House, E1 Press House can be found on Trafalgar Gardens (Stepney Green)
Rahere Court, E1 Rahere Court is a block on Toby Lane (Mile End)
Ravenscroft Court, E3 Ravenscroft Court is sited on Essian Street (Mile End)
Rectory Square, E1 Rectory Square, dating from the 1860s, was named from the rectory of St Dunstan’s parish church nearby (Stepney Green)
Reid Building, E3 Reid Building is a building on Eric Street (Mile End)
Rosery Court, E1 Rosery Court was built on the site of St Dunstan’s Rectory (Stepney Green)
Royston House, E3 Royston House is a block on Lakenham Place (Mile End)
Sandalwood Close, E1 A street within the E1 postcode (Stepney Green)
Shandy Street, E1 Shandy Street connects Beaumont Square with Harford Street (Stepney Green)
Shiloh Place, E1 Eaton Place became Shiloh Place in 1938 (Stepney Green)
Skidmore Street, E1 Skidmore Street predated the Ocean Estate (Stepney Green)
Sligo House, E1 Sligo House is a block on Beaumont Grove (Stepney Green)
Solebay Street, E1 Solebay Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Mile End)
Solent House, E1 Solent House is a block on Ben Jonson Road (Stepney Green)
Solway House, E1 Solway House is a block on Ernest Street (Stepney Green)
St Faith’s House, E1 St Faith’s House is a block on Shandy Street (Stepney Green)
Stepney Green Court, E1 Stepney Green Court was built in 1895 (Stepney Green)
Stepney Green, E1 Stepney Green was originally a 15th century row of houses near to St Dunstan’s church (Stepney Green)
Stocks Court, E1 Stocks Court is a building on Globe Road (Stepney Green)
Sullivan Court, E3 Sullivan Court is located on Eric Street (Mile End)
Sydney House, E1 Sydney House is a block on the east side of Beaumont Square (Stepney Green)
Temple Court, E1 Temple Court can be found on Rectory Square (Stepney Green)
Textile House, E1 Textile House is a block on Duckett Street (Stepney Green)
Tillotson Street, E1 Tillotson Street was built on land belonging to Clare College, Cambridge (Stepney Green)
Timor House, E1 Timor House is a block on Duckett Street (Stepney Green)
Timothy Road, E3 St Dunstan’s Road was renamed Timothy Road after 1938 (Mile End)
Toby Lane, E1 Toby Lane is a road in the E1 postcode area (Mile End)
Tollet Street, E1 Tollet Street was the home of George Lusk, leader of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee (Stepney Green)
Tony Cannell Mews, E3 Tony Cannell Mews is a road in the E3 postcode area (Mile End)
Trafalgar Gardens, E1 Trafalgar Gardens was previously Trafalgar Square until 1938 (Stepney Green)
Tramway Court, E1 Tramway Court is a block on Candle Street (Stepney Green)
Treby Street, E3 George Treby administered a portion of the manor of Stepney 1674-6. (Mile End)
Union Drive, E1 Union Drive is a road in the E1 postcode area (Mile End)
Upper John Street, E1 Upper John Street existed between the 1820s and 1871 (Stepney Green)
Vista Court, E1 Vista Court is a block on Bermuda Way (Stepney Green)
Waley Street, E1 Commemorates Henry le Waleys or Waleis, mayor of London in 1273, 1281-3 and 1298. (Stepney Green)
Waterfall House, E1 Waterfall House is a building on Toby Lane (Mile End)
Waterview House, E14 Waterview House is a block on Carr Street (Stepney Green)
Weddell House, E1 Weddell House, on the Ocean Estate, was built south of Ernest Street (Stepney Green)
Wentworth Mews, E3 Thomas, Lord Wentworth, Lord Chamberlain, acquired the manor of Stepney in 1550 - it had formerly belonged to the bishops of London and they had surrendered it to Edward VI (Mile End)
Westfield Way, E1 Westfield Way is a newer road which replaced a coal depot in the area (Mile End)
White Horse Lane, E1 White Horse Lane originally meandered through the countryside, beginning its journey in Whitechapel and eventually converging with the similarly-named White Horse Street (Stepney Green)
White Tower Way, E1 White Tower Way was built in the area formerly occupied by gas works (Stepney Green)
Whitman Road, E1 Whitman Road is one of the streets of London in the E3 postal area (Mile End)
Wraxall Road, E3 Wraxall Road is a road in the E3 postcode area (Mile End)
XX Place, E1 XX Place is one of the oddest street names that ever existed in London (Stepney Green)


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The original Black Boy pub.
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Map of the Ocean Estate
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The Novo Cemetery is England’s second largest Sephardic cemetery, first used for Jewish burials in 1733, now surrounded by a university campus.
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Stepney City Farm
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The original People’s Palace (1920s)
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Burdett Road, looking south from Bede Road (1953)
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Mile End Road, looking west from Burdett Road, E3 (1905)
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The ’Queen’ beerhouse at 128 Rhodeswell Road. Limehouse (1897). Beerhouses weren’t licenced to sell wines and spirits - only beer.
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White Horse Street in the 1930s. The northern part of the long White Horse Street is now called White Horse Road.
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Cottage, Mile End Place (2023)
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