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Cheviot House (G G Winborne, completed 1937), 227 - 233 Commercial Road E1, Stepney, London. Built for Kornberg & Segal Wool Merchants; converted to council offices 1951.
Location: Bow Road, London, England
Architect: Richard Tress
Built: 1849
Whitechapel had a large Jewish population from 1890 until the 1930s, when increasing prosperity allowed Jews to move out to the suburbs. This burial ground is now disused but can still be visited by arrangement.
The day before this was taken, it was announced that all 850 branches of Woolies in the UK would close by 4th January, all attempts to rescue the stricken store chain having failed. Some staff will be retained for a few days to help clear the shops, but all 27,000+ staff will be made redundant. Many of the shops have already been earmarked for use as supermarkets, so I don't expect this shop to remain empty for long.
Unlike a lot of people who have suddenly become "nostalgic" about Woolies despite not having been in one for years, I did use my local store and will be very sorry to see it go.
Until 16th August a number of canal boats are selling their wares alongside the Regent's Canal in Bow. The boats are moored between Roman Road and the railway bridge.
The mobile represents Bream, a species of fish commonly found in the tidal Thames Estuary.
Despite being only five miles from the City of London, for many years Orchard Place lay in an isolated and forgotten corner of the East End, tucked into a peninsula bounded by the Rivers Thames and Lea. Mostly industrial, a small community of residents did eke out an existence here until they were rehoused elsewhere by the Borough of Poplar in the 1930s.
At the far end of Orchard Place lies Trinity Buoy Wharf. From 1803 to 1988 this is where Trinity House built and maintained its buoys and lightships that were used around the South-East coast. In 1991 it passed to the London Docklands Development Council, and since 1996 it has been used as a centre for creative enterprise.
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Excavations during 1999 for the redevelopment of Spital Square uncovered a former medieval Charnel House - a building for the storing of bones disturbed during the digging of cemeteries. The remains have been preserved behind glass and can be viewed in situ.
The Charnel House lay within the crypt of the Chapel of St Mary Magdalene and St Edmund The Bishop and was built around 1320; it was located within the cemetery of the Priory and Hospital of St Mary Spital which gave the area its names. The Romans had also used the area as a burial ground and the excavations also revealed a lead-lined coffin containing the body of a woman. The 'body' lying amongst the ruins is actually a sculpture, representing a young man who died at the age of twenty-five, a not uncommon age at that time.
St Mary Spital was closed down by King Henry VIII in 1539 during The Reformation. The Chapel and Charnel House became a private residence, before being demolished in the 1700s.
I sat outside a coffee shop on the corner of Wapping Lane and Wapping High Street and shot this Alexander ALX200-bodied Dart of East London as it negoatiated the tight corner whilst on route D3.
Mile End Place is just off Mile End Road, just east of Stepney Green Station, and is accessed by a narrow alleyway which leads to two rows of small terraced cottages.
New Year's Eve, Thursday 31st December 2015 - and it's the end of my 365 Project "A photo a day for 2015".
Snowdrops normally appear towards the end of January, but an exceptionally mild and damp December has brought them on very early. These were taken in the Weavers Field Woodland in Bethnal Green.
I'm pleased to be at the end of my 365 Project. Overall I enjoyed it, some days I had no problem deciding on a photo or I would even see something and just know it would be a suitable subject my photo of the day. Other days though I struggled to find inspiration, and I have to admit to cheating on two occasions. Once when I acccidentally deleted a day's photos when I thought I was downloading them to my computer, and one day when I just hadn't bothered to take a photo. I simply borrowed a photo from another day and changed the "date taken".
So that's it. Of course I will continue to take my camera out with me and take shots, I still enjoy doing so. But if I don't feel inclined to take a photo that day, I won't feel obliged to.
Happy New Year!
St Anne's Catholic Church (and its attendant Church House on the left), was built in 1855 by Gilbert Blount. It catered for the large numbers of Irish immigrants who were settling in the area. Today , as well as its own congregation the Church is home to Brazilian worshippers, for whom services are conducted in Portuguese.
Fallen leaves in Bethnal Green Gardens.
The storm which swept across Southern Britain during the morning of Monday 28th October 2013 did very litttle damage in Bethnal Green, probably because it was shielded from the direct winds from the South-West by the tall buildings of the City of London.
Altab Ali Park stands on the site of St Mary Matfelon, the original "white chapel" which was demolished after being bombed in 1940. Altab Ali was a local Bangladeshi man who was murdered by white racists in 1979.
On the left, the boundary marker for the parish of Bromley St Leonard's. On the right, that for St Anne's Limehouse. Ironically both these Church of England parish markers are set into the wall of a Catholic church.
The Holy Name and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, St Paul's Way, Bow Common
Altab Ali Park stands on the site of St Mary Matfelon, the original "white chapel" which was demolished after being bombed in 1940. Altab Ali was a local Bangladeshi man who was murdered by white racists in 1979.
Location: Bow Road, London, England
Architect: Richard Tress
Built: 1849
The art-deco shelter in Bethnal Green Gardens is thought to have been designed by London Transport architect Stanley Heaps, under the tutelage of Charles Holden whose station designs of the 1930s are legendary. What could have been a functional structure to house an air vent for Bethnal Green Station was instead turned into an attractive amenity for users of the Gardens.
The structure has been neglected in recent years, but during Summer 2013 a group of local residents set up 'The Kiosk', a weekend pop-up café. They are hoping to negotiate a longer lease with Tower Hamlets Council to establish something more permanent and to restore the shelter to its former glory.
The Kiosk reopened as a one-off for London Open House Weekend (21/22 September); on display were copies of the original plans for the shelter, as well as some historical photos of Bethnal Green Gardens.
1 Day Spraycan Art workshop in a Primary School in Tower hamlets London. For Global Street Art & Forest Recycling.
50 students got involved in these paintings!!
Thanks so much to the staff & teachers at Lansbury Lawrence School.
shouts to Mr Frisbee on the help out too.
Close up of copies of "Open Door", the newsletter of Tower Hamlets Homes, dumped in a block refuse container instead of being delivered to residents' homes.