Waley Street is still a named thoroughfare but is for access only as part of the Ocean Estate. All of its houses were demolished.

There was a house on Stepney Green which was called locally ’King John’s Palace’. This may have been the house belonging to Henry le Waleys, after whom Waley Street was named.

Henry le Waleys is said to have established the stocks market at the present junction of Poultry and Queen Victoria Street, and to have received Edward I, who held a parliament in Waleys’ Stepney house in 1299. The house is thought to have been at Stepney Green.

Waley Street was Mary Street until 1904.

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