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Stepney City Farm Credit: Wiki Commons/Adrian Scottow TUM image id: 1722409723 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Grapes (1969) Founded in 1583 and mentioned in Dickens ’Our Mutual Friend’ TUM image id: 1671385760 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Brook Street, E1 - looking east (c. 1910) Brook Street is now renamed as part of Cable Street. The side street with the posts is Schoolhouse Lane and the building on the far right is the Friends’ Meeting House. Credit: Vin Miles (contributor) TUM image id: 1642777905 Licence:	Max Bygraves at 55 Swan Road, Rotherhithe (1974) There was a pub - The Watermans Arms - on the corner of Swan Road and Kenning Street. It closed in 1907 to be replaced by a corner shop. Max Bygraves was born in the council flat buildings next to the shop. (Caption adapted from an IanVisits article) Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1689334619 Licence:	The Limehouse Barge-Builders (Narrow Street from the river). This painting can be seen in the South Shields Museum and Art Gallery. Credit: Charles Napier Hemy (1841-1917) TUM image id: 1620207534 Licence:
The site of Limehouse Station taken in 1975. The station opened in 1840, closed in 1926 and took on new life at part of the DLR TUM image id: 1685013939 Licence:	The ’Queen’ beerhouse at 128 Rhodeswell Road. Limehouse (1897). Beerhouses weren’t licenced to sell wines and spirits - only beer. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1615402335 Licence:	Rotherhithe Street, Bermondsey with the ship ’Argo’ visible in the distance. By the mid 18th century Rotherhithe had a strong maritime and shipbuilding tradition. The Surrey Docks arrived during the 19th century and added 136 acres of interlinked waterways. TUM image id: 1606859545 Licence:	Children wait outside a hall in Salmon Lane in the East End for free meals (1912) Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images TUM image id: 1685032383 Licence:	The Swan Road Mosaic is 3.35 metres by 9.60 metres and was made from vitreous glass by the artist David John in 1992. The mural is one of a number of environmental art projects in which the artist was involved. The work consists of around 350,000 pieces of Italian vitreous glass specially designed for mosaics. The background shows the skyline along Rotherhithe’s riverfront, as seen from Wapping on the opposite shore. The buildings include 19th century dock warehouses, cranes and industrial chimney stacks. The scene is dominated by the clock tower of St Mary’s church. It is from this ancient waterfront that the Mayflower is said to have started its voyage which took the Pilgrim Fathers from Plymouth to New England. Credit: David John/waymarking.com TUM image id: 1689335731 Licence:
The Fighting Temeraire (1838) This is a renowned oil painting created by the English artist J.M.W. Turner, born on 23 April 1775. The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1839 and is currently housed in the National Gallery in London. The painting depicts the HMS Temeraire, a famous 98-gun ship that played a significant role in the Battle of Trafalgar, being towed by a steam tug along the Thames in 1838. The ship was being taken to Rotherhithe in order to be dismantled and sold as scrap. Turner seems to have painted his famous painting - The Fighting Temeraire - from the balcony at the Angel Inn, situated at 101 Bermondsey Wall East. Credit: JWW Turner TUM image id: 1685624673 Licence:	White Horse Street in the 1930s. The northern part of the long White Horse Street is now called White Horse Road. Credit: William Whiffin TUM image id: 1719588894 Licence:	Victorian-era London brickwork Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1642692980 Licence: CC BY 2.0	North Thames Gasworks in Ben Jonson Road on the corner of Harford Street, Stepney Credit: London Archives TUM image id: 1731601293 Licence: