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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.




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Tricia   
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.

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Marion James   
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


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Beverly Sand   
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

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jack stevens   
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,

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margaret clark   
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.

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Boo Horton    
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.

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Mike Levy   
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"

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Comment
   
Added: 6 Nov 2021 15:03 GMT   

Old Nichol Street, E2
Information about my grandfather’s tobacconist shop

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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.


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STEPHEN JACKSON   
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.

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Kim Johnson   
Added: 24 Jun 2021 19:17 GMT   

Limehouse Causeway (1908)
My great grandparents were the first to live in 15 Tomlins Terrace, then my grandparents and parents after marriage. I spent the first two years of my life there. My nan and her family lived at number 13 Tomlins Terrace. My maternal grandmother lived in Maroon house, Blount Street with my uncle. Nan, my mum and her brothers were bombed out three times during the war.

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Comment
   
Added: 13 Jan 2021 13:11 GMT   

Zealand Rd E3 used to be called Auckland Road
Zealand Road E3 used to be called Auckland Road. I seen it on a Philips ABC of London dated about 1925. There is a coalhole cover in nearby Driffield R oad showing a suppliers address in Auckland Road.

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Linda    
Added: 18 Feb 2021 22:03 GMT   

Pereira Street, E1
My grandfather Charles Suett lived in Periera Street & married a widowed neighbour there. They later moved to 33 Bullen House, Collingwood Street where my father was born.

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Carolyn Hirst   
Added: 16 Jul 2022 15:21 GMT   

Henry James Hirst
My second great grandfather Henry James Hirst was born at 18 New Road on 11 February 1861. He was the eighth of the eleven children of Rowland and Isabella Hirst. I think that this part of New Road was also known at the time as Gloucester Terrace.

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Comment
   
Added: 31 Oct 2022 18:47 GMT   

Memories
I lived at 7 Conder Street in a prefab from roughly 1965 to 1971 approx - happy memories- sad to see it is no more ?

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LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

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Eileen   
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

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Comment
   
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.

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Christian   
Added: 31 Oct 2023 10:34 GMT   

Cornwall Road, W11
Photo shows William Richard Hoare’s chemist shop at 121 Cornwall Road.

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Vik   
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!

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Phillip Martin   
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.

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Christine Bithrey   
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]

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Chris hutchison   
Added: 15 Oct 2023 03:04 GMT   

35 broadhurst gardens.
35 Broadhurst gardens was owned by famous opera singer Mr Herman “Simmy”Simberg. He had transformed it into a film and recording complex.
There was a film and animation studio on the ground floor. The recording facilities were on the next two floors.
I arrived in London from Australia in 1966 and worked in the studio as the tea boy and trainee recording engineer from Christmas 1966 for one year. The facility was leased by an American advertising company called Moreno Films. Mr Simbergs company Vox Humana used the studio for their own projects as well. I worked for both of them. I was so lucky. The manager was another wonderful gentleman called Jack Price who went on to create numerous songs for many famous singers of the day and also assisted the careers of Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff. “Simmy” let me live in the bedsit,upper right hand window. Jack was also busy with projects with The Troggs,Bill Wyman,Peter Frampton. We did some great sessions with Manfred Mann and Alan Price. The Cream did some demos but that was before my time. We did lots of voice over work. Warren Mitchell and Ronnie Corbett were favourites. I went back in 1978 and “Simmy “ had removed all of the studio and it was now his home. His lounge room was still our studio in my minds eye!!


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Sue L   
Added: 13 Oct 2023 17:21 GMT   

Duffield Street, Battersea
I’ve been looking for ages for a photo of Duffield Street without any luck.
My mother and grandfather lived there during the war. It was the first property he was able to buy but sadly after only a few months they were bombed out. My mother told the story that one night they were aware of a train stopping above them in the embankment. It was full of soldiers who threw out cigarettes and sweets at about four in the morning. They were returning from Dunkirk though of course my mother had no idea at the time. I have heard the same story from a different source too.

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Bethnal Green Bethnal Green - a happy corner
Weaver’s Fields Weavers Fields is an open space in Bethnal Green.

THE STREETS OF BETHNAL GREEN
Abingdon Street, E1 Abingdon Street is an old East End street.
Achilles House, E2 Achilles House is a block on Old Bethnal Green Road.
Admiral Court, E2 Admiral Court can be found on Horatio Street.
Ainsley Street, E2 Ainsley Street is a road in the E2 postcode area
Ajax House, E2 Ajax House is a block on Old Bethnal Green Road.
Allen McAuliffe House, E2 Allen McAuliffe House is a block on Approach Road.
Allenbury Street, E2 Allenbury Street no longer exists.
Allgood Street, E2 Allgood Street was the former Henrietta Street, renamed in 1938.
Alliston House, E2 Alliston House is a block on Bethnal Green Road.
Alma Road West, Alma Road West is an old East End street.
Ames House, E2 Ames House is a block on Bonner Street.
Andover Court, E2 Andover Court is a building on Mint Street.
Angela Gardens, E2 Angela Gardens opened as part of Columbia Market in 1869
Angela Street, E2 Part of Crescent Place was renamed as Angela Street in 1938.
Apollo House, E2 Apollo House is a block on St Jude’s Road.
Appold Court, E2 Appold Court is a block on Godfrey Place.
Approach Road, E2 Approach Road crosses Bonner Road.
Argos House, E2 Argos House can be found on Old Bethnal Green Road.
Arline Street, E2 Arline Street, Hassard Road was redeveloped as the Dorset Estate.
Arthur Wade House, E2 Arthur Wade House is a block on Baroness Road.
Ashington House, E1 Ashington House is a block on Barnsley Street.
Astra Apartments, E2 Astra Apartments can be found on Globe Road.
Austin Street, E2 Austin Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Axe Place, E2 Axe Place was behind the Axe Tavern.
Ayrton Gould House, E2 Ayrton Gould House is a block on Roman Road.
Bahram Court, E2 Bahram Court is a block on Mint Street.
Bailey Court, E2 Bailey Court is a block on Hackney Road.
Baker Street, Baker Street is an old East End street.
Bapley Place, Bapley Place is an old East End street.
Barnard House, E2 Barnard House is sited on Ellsworth Street.
Barnet Grove, E2 Barnet Grove is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Barnsley Street, E1 Barnsley Street is a road in the E1 postcode area
Baroness Road, E2 Baroness Road is a road in the E2 postcode area
Baroness Street, Baroness Street is an old East End street.
Barwell House, E2 Barwell House is a block on Menotti Street.
Bath Grove, Bath Grove is an old East End street.
Baxendale Street, E2 Baxendale Street is a road in the E2 postcode area
Bethnal Green Road, E2 Bethnal Green Road was a Victorian invention.
Bevin House, E2 Bevin House is a block on Knottisford Street.
Birkbeck Street, E2 Birkbeck Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Blitheale Court, E2 Blitheale Court is a block on Witan Street.
Blythe Street, E2 Blythe Street was formerly a much longer street.
Board School, Board School is an old East End street.
Bonner Road, E2 Bonner Road is one of a series of streets named for Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London.
Bonwell Street, Bonwell Street is an old East End street.
Bonwell Street, E2 Bonwell Street was redeveloped but still there as an unnamed road.
Bradbeer House, E2 Bradbeer House can be found on Bethnal Green Estate.
Bradley Lynch Court, E2 Bradley Lynch Court is a block on Morpeth Street.
Braintree Street, E1 Braintree Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Brierley Street, Brierley Street is an old East End street.
Brierly Gardens, E2 Brierly Gardens is a road in the E2 postcode area
Briggs House, E2 Briggs House is a block on Chambord Street.
Britannia House, E2 Britannia House is a block on Digby Street.
Buckfast Street, E2 Buckfast Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Bullards Place, E2 Bullards Place is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Bullards Street, Bullards Street is an old East End street.
Burns House, E2 Burns House is located on Bethnal Green Estate.
Butler House, E2 Butler House is a block on Butler Street.
Butler Street, Butler Street is an old East End street.
Cadell House, E2 Cadell House is a block on Allgood Street.
Cadogan House, E2 Cadogan House is one of four blocks which formed a 1963 westwards extension of the Avebury Estate
Cambridge Heath Road, E2 The route of Cambridge Heath Road, passing through Bethnal Green as a broad stretch of waste, was mentioned in the 1580s as the highway from Mile End to Hackney.
Camden Street, Camden Street is an old East End street.
Carlisle Street, Carlisle Street is an old East End street.
Caudbridge Street , Caudbridge Street is an old East End street.
Chambord House, E2 Chambord House is a block on Chambord Street.
Chambord Street, E2 Chambord Street is a road in the E2 postcode area
Chapel Street, Chapel Street is an old East End street.
Chapter House, E2 Chapter House is a block on Dunbridge Street.
Charles Darwin House, E2 Charles Darwin House is a block on Canrobert Street.
Charles Dickens House, E2 Charles Dickens House is a block on Mansford Street.
Charles Hayward Building, E2 Charles Hayward Building is a building on Goldsmiths Row.
Chater House, E2 Chater House is a block on Roman Road.
Church Row, E2 Church Lane was renamed to Church Row, E14 in 1875.
City View House, E2 City View House is a block on Bethnal Green Road.
Clarkson Street, E2 Clarkson Street was formed after 1857.
Cobden House, E2 Cobden House is a block on Nelson Gardens.
Columbia Road, E2 Columbia Road is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Columbia Square, Columbia Square is an old East End street.
Constance Green Court, E2 Constance Green Court is a block on Goldsmiths Row.
Coopers Bank , Coopers Bank is an old East End street.
Corfield Street, E2 Corfield Street runs along the route of the former Camden Gardens.
Cornwall Avenue, E2 Cornwall Avenue is a no-through road running off of Braintree Street.
Cornwall Road, Cornwall Road is an old East End street.
Cotherstone Court, E2 Cotherstone Court is a block on Mint Street.
Coventry Road, E1 A street within the E1 postcode
Coventry Street, E1 Suffolk Street was renamed to Coventry Street, E2 in 1881.
Crescent Place, Crescent Place is an old East End street.
Cudworth Street, E1 Cudworth Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Culpin House, E2 Culpin House is located on Turin Street.
Cutters Court, E2 Cutters Court is sited on Three Colts Lane.
Cymon Street, E2 Cymon Street was near to Turin Street.
Cyprus Street, E2 Cyprus Street is a road in the E2 postcode area
Daniel Street, Daniel Street is an old East End street.
Dawson House, E2 Dawson House can be found on Bethnal Green Estate.
Delta Street, E2 Delta Street is a road in the E2 postcode area
Dence House, E2 Dence House is located on Turin Street.
Derbyshire Street, E2 Derbyshire Street originated as part of the Willetts estate.
Dickinson House, E2 Dickinson House is sited on Turin Street.
Digby Street, E2 Digby Street is a road in the E2 postcode area
Diss Street, E2 Diss Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Donegal House, E1 Donegal House is a block on Cambridge Heath Road.
Doric House, E2 Doric House is a block on Mace Street.
Dressage Court, E2 Dressage Court is a block on Three Colts Lane.
Ducal Street, E2 Duke Street was renamed to Ducal Street, E2 in 1883.
Dunbridge Street, E2 Dunbridge Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Durant Street, E2 Durant Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Ellen Wilkinson House, E2 Ellen Wilkinson House is a block on Usk Street.
Ellsworth Street, E2 Ellsworth Street is a road in the E2 postcode area
Elwin Street, E2 Elwin Street is a road in the E2 postcode area
Embassy Court, E1 Embassy Court is a block on Brady Street.
Entick Street, E2 Entick Street was near to Malcolm Place - the course of the road still visible as a path parallel to Braintree Street.
Esquared Apartments, E2 Esquared Apartments is a block on Allgood Street.
Estate Road, E2 Commercial area
Evans Apartments, E2 Evans Apartments is located on Palmers Road.
Evesham House, E2 Evesham House can be found on Old Ford Road.
Ezra Street, E2 Ezra Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Finnis Street, Finnis Street is an old East End street.
Florida Street, E2 Florida Street leads east from Squirries Street.
Forber House, E2 Forber House is a block on Braintree Street.
Fountain Apartments, E2 Fountain Apartments is a block on Sceptre Road.
Fox Street, Fox Street is an old East End street.
Friesian House, E2 Friesian House can be found on Buckhurst Street.
Fuller Street, Fuller Street is an old East End street.
Gainford House, E2 Gainford House is a block on Ellsworth Street.
Gales Gardens, E2 Gales Gardens is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Gascoigne Place, E2 Gascoigne Place is a road in the E2 postcode area
Gauber Street, Gauber Street is an old East End street.
Gawber Street, E2 Gawber Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
George Belt House, E2 George Belt House is sited on Smart Street.
George Gardens, George Gardens is an old East End street.
George Loveless House, E2 George Loveless House is a block on Diss Street.
Georgina Gardens, Georgina Gardens is an old East End street.
Gibraith Walk , Gibraith Walk is an old East End street.
Gibraltar Gardens, E2 Gibraltar Gardens was a small Bethnal Green road.
Gibraltar Walk, E2 Gibraltar Walk leads north from Bethnal Green Road.
Gillett House, E2 Gillett House is a block on Turin Street.
Glass Street, E2 Glass Street is a road in the E2 postcode area
Globe E Apartments, E2 Globe E Apartments is located on Globe Road.
Globe Road, E2 Globe Road was mentioned as ’the lane from Bethnal Green to Mile End’ in 1581.
Goldman Close, E2 Goldman Close is a road in the E2 postcode area
Gorsuch Place, E2 Gorsuch Place is a road in the E2 postcode area
Gosset Street, E2 Gosset Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Gossett Street, Gossett Street is an old East End street.
Gowan House, E2 Gowan House is a block on Chambord Street.
Grace Allen Court, E2 Grace Allen Court can be found on Goldsmiths Row.
Granby Row, Granby Row is an old East End street.
Granby Street, Granby Street is an old East End street.
Granby Street, E2 Granby Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Greenheath Business Centre, E2 Greenheath Business Centre is a Bethnal Green commercial area.
Gretton House, E2 Gretton House is a block on Globe Road.
Grove Street, E2 Lower Grove Street was called Grove Street after 1867.
Gwilym Maries House, E2 Residential block
Hackney Road, E2 Hackney Road, part of the parish boundary, was referred to in 1587 as the ’highway from Shoreditch to Mare Street’ and, as Collier’s Lane, dated from 1439 or earlier.
Hadleigh Street, E1 Hadleigh Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Hadleigh Walk, E1 Hadleigh Walk is a road in the E6 postcode area
Hague Street, E2 Hague Street was built in 1826.
Haig House, E2 Haig House is a block on Shipton Street.
Hampstead Place , Hampstead Place is an old East End street.
Hartley Street, Hartley Street is an old East End street.
Hassard Place, Hassard Place is an old East End street.
Hassard Street, Hassard Street is an old East End street.
Hassard Street, E2 This is a street in the E2 postcode area
Hector House, E2 Hector House is a block on Old Bethnal Green Road.
Herald Street, E2 Herald Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Hereford Street, Hereford Street is an old East End street.
Hereford Street, E2 Hereford Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Hollybush Gardens, E2 Hollybush Gardens is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Hollybush House, E2 Hollybush House is a block on Hollybush Gardens.
Hollybush Place, E2 Hollybush Place is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Holman House, E2 Holman House is a block on Roman Road.
Horatio House, E2 Horatio House is a block on Horatio Street.
Horatio Street, Horatio Street is an old East End street.
Horatio Street, E2 Horatio Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Hugh Platt House, E2 Hugh Platt House is a block on Patriot Square.
Hugues House, E2 Hugues House is a block on Sceptre Road.
Huntley Street, Huntley Street is an old East End street.
Hutton House, E2 Hutton House is a block on Turin Street.
Ion Court, E2 Ion Court is located on Columbia Road.
Ion Square, E2 Ion Square is a road in the E2 postcode area
Ivimey Street, E2 Ivimey Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
James Brine House, E2 James Brine House can be found on Baroness Road.
James Docherty House, E2 James Docherty House, on the Approach Estate, stands on Patriot Square.
James Hammett House, E2 James Hammett House is a block on Ravenscroft Street.
James Middleton House, E2 James Middleton House is a block on Middleton Street.
James Street, James Street is an old East End street.
Jellicoe House, E2 Jellicoe House is a block on Ropley Street.
Jersey Street, E2 Jersey Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
John Cartwright House, E2 John Cartwright House is a block on Old Bethnal Green Road.
Johnson House, E2 Johnson House is a block on Roberta Street.
Joseph Priestley House, E2 Joseph Priestley House is a block on Canrobert Street.
Karslake House, E2 Karslake House is a block on Gibraltar Walk.
Karstake House, E2 Karstake House dates from 1963.
Keats House, E2 Keats House is a block on Roman Road.
Kelsey Street, E2 Kelsey Street was called Cross Street until 1869.
Kemp House, E2 Kemp House is sited on Sewardstone Road.
Kinsham House, E2 Kinsham House is a block on Ramsey Street.
Kirton Gardens, E2 Kirton Gardens is a road in the E2 postcode area
Lessada Street, E2 Lessada Street ran alongside the canal as far as Palm Street.
Lilac Lane, E2 Lilac Lane is a location in London.
London Street, The Opening, E14 was renamed as London Street, E14 in 1888.
Longman House, E2 Longman House is a block on Mace Street.
Mace Street, E2 Mace Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Mansford Street, Mansford Street is an old East End street.
Mansford Street, E2 Mansford Street was known as Elizabeth Street until 1876.
Mape Street, E2 While much altered, Mape Street began life in 1826.
Maple Street, E2 Maple Street is a road in the E2 postcode area
Mark House, E2 Mark House is a block on Sewardstone Road.
Mary James House, E2 Mary James House is a block on St Peter’s Square.
Matilda Street, E2 Bellona Street became Matilda Street before it disappeared from the map in the 1940s.
Maud Richards Court, E2 Maud Richards Court is a block on Ellen Phillips Lane.
Maude House, E2 Maude House is a building on Bath Grove.
McCalla House, E1 McCalla House is located on Pedley Street.
Mccoy House, E2 Mccoy House is a building on Three Colts Lane.
McKinnon Wood House, E2 McKinnon Wood House is a block on Turin Street.
Menotti Street, E2 Menotti Street, a shadow of its former length, was called Manchester Street until 1864.
Merceron House, E2 Merceron House is a block on Globe Road.
Middleton Street, E2 Middleton Street was built after 1857.
Milton House, E2 Milton House can be found on Bethnal Green Estate.
Minto Place, Minto Place is an old East End street.
Miss Chapel, Miss Chapel is an old East End street.
Mödling House, E2 Mödling House is sited on Mace Street.
Montford House, E2 Montford House can be found on Victoria Park Square.
Moore House, E2 Moore House is sited on Bethnal Green Estate.
Morpeth Street, E2 Morpeth Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Morris House, E2 Morris House is a block on Bethnal Green Estate.
Mulberry House, E2 Mulberry House is a block on Victoria Park Square.
Nant Street, E2 Nant Street is a road in the E2 postcode area
Nelson Gardens, E2 Nelson Gardens runs off Old Bethnal Green Road.
New Tyson Street, New Tyson Street is an old East End street.
Newline Street, Newline Street is an old East End street.
Norah Street , Norah Street is an old East End street.
Northesk House, E1 Northesk House is a block on Tent Street.
Offenbach House, E2 Offenbach House is a block on Mace Street.
Old Bethnal Green Road, E2 Old Bethnal Green Road had a series of rather racy names until the nineteenth century.
Old Ford Road, E2 Old Ford Road runs eastwards from Cambridge Heath Road, eventually leading to Old Ford.
Oldford Road, Oldford Road is an old East End street.
Orange Street, Orange Street is an old East End street.
Padbury Court, E2 Padbury Court links Brick Lane and Gibraltar Walk.
Palmers Road, E2 Palmers Road is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Paradise Row, E2 Paradise Row is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Park Street, Park Street is an old East End street.
Patriot Square, E2 Patriot Square was built on a portion of the Pyotts estate.
Pavan Court, E2 Pavan Court is located on Sceptre Road.
Peel Grove, E2 Peel Grove is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Pelican House, E1 Pelican House is a block on Cambridge Heath Road.
Pelter Street, E2 Pelter Street is a road in the E2 postcode area
Pepys House, E2 Pepys House is a block on Hartley Street.
Perseverance Works, E2 Perseverance Works is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Phoenix Court, E1 Phoenix Court is a block on Cudworth Street.
Piggott House, E2 Piggott House is a building on Sewardstone Road.
Pollard Place, E2 Pollard Place ran off Pollard Row.
Pollard Row, E2 Pollard Row runs north from Florida Street in Bethnal Green.
Pollard Street, E2 Pollard Street is a road in the E2 postcode area
Pott Street, E2 Pott Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Poyser Street, E2 Poyser Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Printing House Yard, E2 Printing House Yard is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Pundersons Gardens, E2 Pundersons Gardens is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Puteaux House, E2 Puteaux House is a block on Mace Street.
Quilter Street, E2 Quilter Street is a road in the E2 postcode area
Ramsey Street, Ramsey Street is an old East End street.
Ramsey Street, E2 A road with a long history, Ramsey Street has been realigned since the Second World War.
Ravenscroft Street, E2 Ravenscroft Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Recreation Ground, Recreation Ground is an old East End street.
Reynolds House, E2 Reynolds House is a block on Approach Road.
Rob Street, Rob Street is an old East End street.
Robert Owen House, E2 Robert Owen House is a block on Baroness Road.
Roberta Street, E2 Roberta Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Rochester Court, E2 Rochester Court is a block on Wilmot Street.
Roger Dowley Close, E2 Roger Dowley Close is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Rosebery House, E2 Rosebery House is a block on Sewardstone Road.
Rosemoon House, E2 Rosemoon House is a block on Voss Street.
Royston Street, E2 Royston Street is a road in the E2 postcode area
Rushmead, E2 Rushmead is a road in the E2 postcode area
Sale Street, E2 Sale Street once ran much further east.
Sanchia Court, E2 Sanchia Court is a block on Wellington Row.
Sanger House, E2 Sanger House is sited on Turin Street.
Sankey House, E2 Sankey House is sited on St James’s Avenue.
Satchwell Kents, Satchwell Kents is an old East End street.
Satchwell Rents, E2 Satchwell Rents owes its origins to a set of buildings dating from 1689.
Satchwell Road, E2 Satchwell Road dates from the 1950s.
Satchwell Street, Satchwell Street is an old East End street.
Scawfell Street, E2 Scawfell Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Sceptre Road, E2 Prior to the Second World War, Sceptre Road was slightly longer.
Seabright Street, E2 Seabright Street is a shadow of its former self.
Sheldon Place, Sheldon Place is an old East End street.
Shelley House, E2 Shelley House is a block on Bethnal Green Estate.
Sheppard House, E2 Sheppard House is a block on St Peter’s Close.
Shipton House, E2 Shipton House can be found on Allgood Street.
Shipton Street, E2 Shipton Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Sivill House, E2 Sivill House is sited on Columbia Road.
Sleigh House, E2 Sleigh House is a block on Roman Road.
Smart Street, E2 Smart Street is a road in the E2 postcode area
Snell House, E2 Snell House is a block on Turin Street.
Southampton Terrace, Southampton Terrace is an old East End street.
Speakman House, E2 Speakman House is one of four blocks built around a communal area.
Squerries Street, Squerries Street is an old East End street.
Squirries Street, E2 Squirries Street is a road in the E2 postcode area
St Andrew Street, St Andrew Street is an old East End street.
St Gilles House, E2 St Gilles House is located on Mace Street.
St James’s Avenue, E2 St James’s Avenue is adjacent to the London Chest Hospital.
St Jude Street, St Jude Street is an old East End street.
St Judes Road, E2 St Judes Road is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
St Matthews Row, E2 St Matthews Row is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
St Peter’s Close, E2 St Peter’s Close lies near to St Peter’s in Bethnal Green.
St Peter’s Square, E2 St Peter’s Square lies behind St Peter’s, Bethnal Green.
Stafford Cripps House, E2 Stafford Cripps House is a block on Globe Road.
Stamp Place, E2 Stamp Place is a road in the E2 postcode area
Stapleton House, E2 Stapleton House is a block on Ellsworth Street.
Steeple Court, E1 Steeple Court is a block on Coventry Road.
Stephen Court, E2 Stephen Court is a block on Hackney Road.
Stockton House, E2 Residential block
Strouts Place, E2 Strouts Place is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Stuart House, E2 Stuart House stands in an area of the Avebury Estate.
Sturdee House, E2 Sturdee House is a block on Horatio Street.
Swinburne House, E2 Swinburne House is a block on Bethnal Green Estate.
Tap Street, Tap Street is an old East End street.
Tapp Street, E2 Tapp Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Tarrant House, E2 Tarrant House is a block on Roman Road.
Tate House, E2 Tate House is a block on Mace Street.
Teal Street, Teal Street is an old East End street.
Tent Street, E1 Tent Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Thomas Burt House, E2 Thomas Burt House can be found on Canrobert Street.
Thomas Hollywood House, E2 Thomas Hollywood House is located on Russia Lane.
Thornaby House, E2 Thornaby House is located on Canrobert Street.
Thorold Street, Thorold Street is an old East End street.
Threaders Apartments, E2 Threaders Apartments is a block on Jersey Street.
Three Colt Lane, Three Colt Lane is an old East End street.
Three Colts Lane, E1 Three Colts Lane is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Thurlow Place, Thurlow Place is an old East End street.
Timmins Apartments, E2 Timmins Apartments is a block on Palmers Road.
Torrance House, E2 Torrance House is a block on Turin Street.
Tredway Street, Tredway Street is an old East End street.
Tria Apartments, E2 Tria Apartments is a block on Durant Street.
Turin Street, E2 Turin Street was originally known as ’Hope Town’.
Tuscan House, E2 Tuscan House is a block on Digby Street.
Tyrell Street, E2 Tyrell Street appears on maps between the 1830s and 1900s.
Usk Street, Usk Street is an old East End street.
Usk Street, E2 Usk Street is a road in the E2 postcode area
Vallance Road, E2 The Bethnal Green end of Vallance Road was originally called White Street.
Velletri House, E2 Velletri House is a block on Mace Street.
Verdigris Apartments, E2 Verdigris Apartments is a block on Old Bethnal Green Road.
Viaduct Place, E2 Viaduct Place connects Viaduct Street with Seabright Street.
Viaduct Street, E2 Viaduct Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Victoria Park Square, E2 Victoria Park Square is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Violet Street, Violet Street is an old East End street.
Virginia Road, E2 Virginia Road is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Voss Street, E2 Voss Street is the successor to an interlinked series of alleyways behind Bethnal Green Road.
Walter Street, E2 Walter Street is a road in the E2 postcode area
Warley Street, E2 Warley Street is a road in the RM14 postcode area
Warner Place, E2 Warner Place is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Waterson Street, E2 Waterson Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Wear Place, E2 Wear Place is a road in the E2 postcode area
Wellington Place, Wellington Place is an old East End street.
Wellington Row, E2 Wellington Row is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Welwyn Street, E2 Welwyn Street is a road in the E2 postcode area
Wessex Street, E1 Wessex Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Westbrook House, E2 Westbrook House is a block on Globe Road.
Westhope House, E2 Westhope House is a block on Derbyshire Street.
Wharncliffe, Wharncliffe is an old East End street.
Wharton House, E2 Wharton House can be found on Palmers Road.
White Street, E2 White Street was the former name for part of Vallance Road.
Whitman House, E2 Whitman House is a building on Bethnal Green Estate.
William Channing House, E2 William Channing House is a block on Canrobert Street.
Wilmot Street, E2 Wilmot Street is one of the older Bethnal Green streets.
Wimbolt Street, E2 Wimbolt Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Winbolt Street, Winbolt Street is an old East End street.
Winchester Street, Winchester Street is an old East End street.
Witan Street, E2 Witan Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Wolverley Street, Wolverley Street is an old East End street.
Wood Close, E2 Wood Close is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Wyndham Deedes House, E2 Wyndham Deedes House is a block on Hackney Road.
Yates House, E2 Yates House is a block on Roberta Street.
Yorkton Street, E2 Yorkton Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.
Zander Court, E2 Zander Court, alphabetically, is one of the last addresses in London.

THE PUBS OF BETHNAL GREEN
Dundee Arms Dundee Arms Public House is sited on Cambridge Heath Road.
Florists Arms Florists Arms Public House is a pub on Globe Road.
Gibraltar Tavern The Gibraltar Tavern (a.k.a. The Gib) was situated at 28 Gibraltar Walk, Bethnal Green.


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The original Black Boy pub.
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Buck's Row (Durward Street) in 1938.
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Pollard Row (1939)
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In the neighbourhood...

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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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Adams House, Mile End Road
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Lost department stores of London: Wickhams on the Mile End Road The photo shows a foggy day in November 1933. The story of the weird shop that separated the two halves of Wickhams will no doubt be told by somebody!
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Brady Street looking toward the junction with Durward Street, 1979.
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Houses in Cambridge Road, Bethnal Green. Cambridge Road was renamed to Cambridge Heath Road in 1938.
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The Vine Tavern, Mile End Road (1870) The sign promises that it WILL be rebuilt. Let’s hope that it was to everybody’s satisfaction.
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17-21 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green (2019) Built in 1753 by Anthony Natt Senior, No 21 to the right had, by 1815, become a girls school for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, by 1873 it was an asylum for "fallen women". Since 1900 it has been occupied by St Margaret’s House a womens Settlement associated with Oxford House.
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Rear of buildings in Wilmot Street, Bethnal Green (c.1869). These are possibly under construction judging by the scaffolding. This photograph taken from what is now Finnis Street. Photo info from www.wilmotst.com
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The Hare in Cambridge Heath Road
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Winthrop Street looking east, c.1970.
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