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.

Houses in Cambridge Road, Bethnal Green.

Cambridge Road was renamed to Cambridge Heath Road in 1938.
Credit: English Heritage

The name of Cambridge Heath Road had changed from Cambridge Road in 1938. The road was widened in 1862, 1905 and 1926.

The route from Essex to Smithfield market passed from Mile End along Cambridge (Heath) Road and then along Hackney Road to Shoreditch, bringing ’vast numbers of cattle and many heavy carriages’ which left the roads beyond the ability of Bethnal Green to keep in repair.

Leases of waste along the road in the 16th century included covenants to ’keep the footway well gravelled’. In 1654 Bethnal Green’s highway surveyors were ordered to fill up a gravel pit which they had made in the green.

Bethnal Green was rated with other Stepney hamlets in 1671 to repair the highways and causeways ’in great decay’. By 1671 it was generally accepted that roads built up on both sides should be paved. Paving with stone and gravel was the responsibility of the houses lining the roads - Thomas Street being singled out in 1734.

In 1696 Bethnal Green highway surveyors petitioned that Spitalfields, being small but populous, should contribute towards Bethnal Green’s highways. In 1772 Bethnal Green parish opposed an attempt by Spitalfields to obtain an Act to pave and clean streets in its own and neighbouring parishes, including Brick Lane. By 1848, of more than 400 roads in Bethnal Green, only 14 per cent were classed as granite roadways and 40 per cent had paved footpaths. By 1905 there were 40 miles of streets in the borough. Some of the narrow, cobbled streets, probably late 18th- and early 19th-century were listed by British History Online as remaining in 1988.

In 1738 an Act included the route of Cambridge Road among those administered by the new Hackney turnpike trustees. A turnpike gate was added at Cambridge Heath, at the junction with Hackney Road. The trust’s term and powers were extended in 1753, 1756, 1782, 1802, when tolls were adjusted to cope with the increasing traffic of carts loaded with bricks, and 1821. In 1788, Cambridge Road was still listed as ’dangerous, with the pathways broken and heaps of filth ... every 10 or 20 yards’.

In 1826 an Act replaced the trusts with the metropolitan turnpike roads commissioners, whose responsibilities from the start included Cambridge Road. Tollgates were generally closed when the commissioners were abolished in 1863 and responsibility for all roads passed to the local authorities and the Metropolitan Board of Works.

Main source:	A History of the County of Middlesex \| British History Online
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Tricia Shadwell 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. Reply
Marion James Edith Street, E2 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 Reply
Beverly Sand Havering Street, E1 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 Reply
margaret clark Thrawl Street, E1 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. Reply
Boo Horton Stepney Green, E1 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. Reply
Old Nichol Street, E2 Added: 6 Nov 2021 15:03 GMT	Old Nichol Street, E2 Information about my grandfather’s tobacconist shop Reply
Nant Street, E2 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. Reply
STEPHEN JACKSON Fellows Court, E2 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. Reply
Kim Johnson Limehouse Causeway (1908) 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. Reply
Zealand Road, E3 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. Reply
Linda Pereira Street, E1 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. Reply
Carolyn Hirst New Road, E1 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. Reply
Conder Street, E14 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 ? Reply

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Christine D Elliott Blockhouse Street, SE15 Added: 20 Mar 2023 15:52 GMT	The Blute Family My grandparents, Frederick William Blute & Alice Elizabeth Blute nee: Warnham lived at 89 Blockhouse Street Deptford from around 1917.They had six children. 1. Alice Maragret Blute (my mother) 2. Frederick William Blute 3. Charles Adrian Blute 4. Violet Lillian Blute 5. Donald Blute 6. Stanley Vincent Blute (Lived 15 months). I lived there with my family from 1954 (Birth) until 1965 when we were re-housed for regeneration to the area. I attended Ilderton Road School. Very happy memories of that time. Reply
Pearl Foster Dukes Place, EC3A Added: 20 Mar 2023 12:22 GMT	Dukes Place, EC3A Until his death in 1767, Daniel Nunes de Lara worked from his home in Dukes Street as a Pastry Cook. It was not until much later the street was renamed Dukes Place. Daniel and his family attended the nearby Bevis Marks synagogue for Sephardic Jews. The Ashkenazi Great Synagogue was established in Duke Street, which meant Daniel’s business perfectly situated for his occupation as it allowed him to cater for both congregations. Reply
Dr Paul Flewers Hawthorne Close, N1 Added: 9 Mar 2023 18:12 GMT	Some Brief Notes on Hawthorne Close / Hawthorne Street My great-grandparents lived in the last house on the south side of Hawthorne Street, no 13, and my grandmother Alice Knopp and her brothers and sisters grew up there. Alice Knopp married Charles Flewers, from nearby Hayling Road, and moved to Richmond, Surrey, where I was born. Leonard Knopp married Esther Gutenberg and lived there until the street was demolished in the mid-1960s, moving on to Tottenham. Uncle Len worked in the fur trade, then ran a pet shop in, I think, the Kingsland Road. From the back garden, one could see the almshouses in the Balls Pond Road. There was an ink factory at the end of the street, which I recall as rather malodorous. Reply
KJH Andover Road, N7 Added: 7 Mar 2023 17:14 GMT	Andover Road, N7 (1939 - 1957) My aunt, Doris nee Curtis (aka Jo) and her husband John Hawkins (aka Jack) ran a small general stores at 92 Andover Road (N7). I have found details in the 1939 register but don’t know how long before that it was opened.He died in 1957. In the 1939 register he is noted as being an ARP warden for Islington warden Reply
The Queens Head Added: 2 Mar 2023 13:50 GMT	The Queens Head Queens Head demolished and a NISA supermarket and flats built in its place. Reply
Mike Elia Street, N1 Added: 28 Feb 2023 18:09 GMT	6 Elia Street When I was young I lived in 6 Elia Street. At the end of the garden there was a garage owned by Initial Laundries which ran from an access in Quick Street all the way up to the back of our garden. The fire exit to the garage was a window leading into our garden. 6 Elia Street was owned by Initial Laundry. Reply
Fumblina Whitfield Street, W1T Added: 21 Feb 2023 11:39 GMT	Error on 1800 map numbering for John Street The 1800 map of Whitfield Street (17 zoom) has an error in the numbering shown on the map. The houses are numbered up the right hand side of John Street and Upper John Street to #47 and then are numbered down the left hand side until #81 BUT then continue from 52-61 instead of 82-91. Reply
P Cash Woburn Place, WC1H Added: 19 Feb 2023 08:03 GMT	Occupants of 19-29 Woburn Place The Industrial Tribunals (later changed to Employment Tribunals) moved (from its former location on Ebury Bridge Road to 19-29 Woburn Place sometime in the late 1980s (I believe). 19-29 Woburn Place had nine floors in total (one in the basement and two in its mansard roof and most of the building was occupied by the Tribunals The ’Head Office’ of the tribunals, occupied space on the 7th, 6th and 2nd floors, whilst one of the largest of the regional offices (London North but later called London Central) occupied space in the basement, ground and first floor. The expansive ground floor entrance had white marble flooring and a security desk. Behind (on evey floor) lay a square (& uncluttered) lobby space, which was flanked on either side by lifts. On the rear side was an elegant staircase, with white marble steps, brass inlays and a shiny brass handrail which spiralled around an open well. Both staircase, stairwell and lifts ran the full height of the building. On all floors from 1st upwards, staff toilets were tucked on either side of the staircase (behind the lifts). Basement Floor - Tribunal hearing rooms, dormant files store and secure basement space for Head Office. Public toilets. Geound Floor - The ’post’ roon sat next to the entrance in the northern side, the rest of which was occupied by the private offices of the full time Tribunal judiciary. Thw largest office belonged to the Regional Chair and was situated on the far corner (overlooking Tavistock Square) The secretary to the Regional Chair occupied a small office next door. The south side of this floor was occupied by the large open plan General Office for the administration, a staff kitchen & rest room and the private offices of the Regional Secretary (office manager) and their deputy. First Dloor - Tribunal hearing rooms; separate public waiting rooms for Applicants & Respondents; two small rooms used by Counsel (on a ’whoever arrives first’ bases) and a small private rest room for use by tribunal lay members. Second Floor - Tribunal Hearing Rooms; Tribunal Head Office - HR & Estate Depts & other tennants. Third Floor - other tennants Fourth Floor - other tennants Fifth Floor - Other Tennants except for a large non-smoking room for staff, (which overlooked Tavistock Sqaure). It was seldom used, as a result of lacking any facities aside from a meagre collection of unwanted’ tatty seating. Next to it, (overlooking Tavistock Place) was a staff canteen. Sixth Floor - Other tennants mostly except for a few offices on the northern side occupied by tribunal Head Office - IT Dept. Seventh Floor - Other tenants in the northern side. The southern (front) side held the private offices of several senior managers (Secretariat, IT & Finance), private office of the Chief Accuntant; an office for two private secretaries and a stationary cupboard. On the rear side was a small kitchen; the private office of the Chief Executive and the private office of the President of the Tribunals for England & Wales. (From 1995 onwards, this became a conference room as the President was based elsewhere. The far end of this side contained an open plan office for Head Office staff - Secretariat, Finance & HR (staff training team) depts. Eighth Floor - other tennants. The Employment Tribunals (Regional & Head Offices) relocated to Vitory House, Kingsway in April 2005. Reply

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Blitheale Court, E2

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Bradley Lynch Court, E2

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Braintree Street, E1

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Brierly Gardens, E2

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Britannia House, E2

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Burns House, E2

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Butler House, E2

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Cambridge Crescent, E2

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Canrobert Street, E2

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Charles Darwin House, E2

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Charles Dickens House, E2

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Cheverell House, E2

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Clare Street, E2

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Claredale Street, E2

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Claremont Court, E2

Clarkson Street, E2 Clarkson Street was formed after 1857.

Clarkson Street, E2

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Coate Street, E2

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Cobden House, E2

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Corfield Street, E2

Cornwall Avenue, E2 Cornwall Avenue is a no-through road running off of Braintree Street.

Cornwall Avenue, E2

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Cotherstone Court, E2

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Crown Works, E2

Cyprus Street, E2 Cyprus Street is a road in the E2 postcode area

Cyprus Street, E2

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Dawson House, E2

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Derbyshire Street, E2

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Devonshire Court, E1

Digby Street, E2 Digby Street is a road in the E2 postcode area

Digby Street, E2

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Dinmont House, E2

Dinmont Street, E2 Dinmont Street was built in 1822.

Dinmont Street, E2

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Durham Place, E2

Edinburgh Close, E2 Edinburgh Close lies off Russia Lane.

Edinburgh Close, E2

Ellsworth Street, E2 Ellsworth Street is a road in the E2 postcode area

Ellsworth Street, E2

Emma Street, E2 Emma Street started as a street bounding the Bethnal Green Gas Works.

Emma Street, E2

Esker Place, E2 Esker Place was formed after post-war reconstruction.

Esker Place, E2

Estate Road, E2 Commercial area

Estate Road, E2

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Evesham House, E2

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Felix Street, E2

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Florida Street, E2

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Forber House, E2

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Fountain Apartments, E2

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Gainford House, E2

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Gales Gardens, E2

Gawber Street, E2 Gawber Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Gawber Street, E2

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Gillman House, E2

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Gillman Street, E2

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Glass Street, E2

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Globe E Apartments, E2

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Globe Road, E2

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Greenheath Business Centre, E2

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Gretton House, E2

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Gwilym Maries House, E2

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Hadleigh Street, E1

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Hadleigh Walk, E1

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Hague Street, E2

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Harpley Square, E1

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Hartley Street, E2

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Hector House, E2

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Helen House, E2

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Helen’s Place, E2

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Herald Street, E2

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Hollybush Gardens, E2

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Hollybush House, E2

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Hollybush Place, E2

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Huddleston Close, E2

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Hugh Platt House, E2

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Hugues House, E2

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Jacquard Court, E2

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James Docherty House, E2

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James Middleton House, E2

Jameson Court, E2 Jameson Court is a block on Russia Lane.

Jameson Court, E2

Jersey Street, E2 Jersey Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Jersey Street, E2

John Cartwright House, E2 John Cartwright House is a block on Old Bethnal Green Road.

John Cartwright House, E2

Joseph Priestley House, E2 Joseph Priestley House is a block on Canrobert Street.

Joseph Priestley House, E2

Keats House, E2 Keats House is a block on Roman Road.

Keats House, E2

Keeling House, E2 Keeling House is a block on Claredale Street.

Keeling House, E2

Kelsey Street, E2 Kelsey Street was called Cross Street until 1869.

Kelsey Street, E2

Mansford Street, E2 Mansford Street was known as Elizabeth Street until 1876.

Mansford Street, E2

Mantus Close, E1 A street within the E1 postcode

Mantus Close, E1

Maple Street, E2 Maple Street is a road in the E2 postcode area

Maple Street, E2

Margerie Court, E2 Margerie Court can be found on Clare Street.

Margerie Court, E2

Matilda Street, E2 Bellona Street became Matilda Street before it disappeared from the map in the 1940s.

Matilda Street, E2

Matthew’s Place, E2 Matthew’s Place was built next to a factory on Hackney Road.

Matthew’s Place, E2

Mayfield House, E2 Mayfield House is a block on Cambridge Heath Road.

Mayfield House, E2

Mendip House, E2 Mendip House is a block on Kirkwall Place.

Mendip House, E2

Merceron House, E2 Merceron House is a block on Globe Road.

Merceron House, E2

Middleton Street, E2 Middleton Street was built after 1857.

Middleton Street, E2

Millennium Place, E2 Millennium Place dates from 1993.

Millennium Place, E2

Milton House, E2 Milton House can be found on Bethnal Green Estate.

Milton House, E2

Minerva Street, E2 Minerva Street was developed as part of the Cambridge Heath Estate.

Minerva Street, E2

Minstrel Court, E2 Minstrel Court is a block on Teesdale Close.

Minstrel Court, E2

Montford House, E2 Montford House can be found on Victoria Park Square.

Montford House, E2

Moore House, E2 Moore House is sited on Bethnal Green Estate.

Moore House, E2

Morris House, E2 Morris House is a block on Bethnal Green Estate.

Morris House, E2

Mulberry House, E2 Mulberry House is a block on Victoria Park Square.

Mulberry House, E2

Museum Passage, E2 Museum Passage crosses the northern edge of Museum Gardens.

Museum Passage, E2

Nant Street, E2 Nant Street is a road in the E2 postcode area

Nant Street, E2

Nestor House, E2 Nestor House is a block on Old Bethnal Green Road.

Nestor House, E2

Netteswell House, E2 Netteswell House is a building on Old Ford Road.

Netteswell House, E2

Old Bethnal Green Road, E2 Old Bethnal Green Road had a series of rather racy names until the nineteenth century.

Old Bethnal Green Road, E2

Old Ford Road, E2 Old Ford Road runs eastwards from Cambridge Heath Road, eventually leading to Old Ford.

Old Ford Road, E2

Palestine Place, E2 Palestine Place led east from Cambridge Heath Road.

Palestine Place, E2

Paradise Row, E2 Paradise Row is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Paradise Row, E2

Paris House, E2 Paris House is a block on Old Bethnal Green Road.

Paris House, E2

Parmiter Street, E2 Parmiter Street was originally Gloucester Street - laid out in 1826 and built by 1836.

Parmiter Street, E2

Patriot Square, E2 Patriot Square was built on a portion of the Pyotts estate.

Patriot Square, E2

Pavan Court, E2 Pavan Court is located on Sceptre Road.

Pavan Court, E2

Peary Place, E2 Peary Place is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Peary Place, E2

Peel Grove, E2 Peel Grove is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Peel Grove, E2

Pepys House, E2 Pepys House is a block on Hartley Street.

Pepys House, E2

Pollard Street, E2 Pollard Street is a road in the E2 postcode area

Pollard Street, E2

Portman Place, E1 Portman Place is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Portman Place, E1

Pott Street, E2 Pott Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Pott Street, E2

Poyser Street, E2 Poyser Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Poyser Street, E2

Priam House, E2 Priam House is a block on Old Bethnal Green Road.

Priam House, E2

Prince of Wales Apartments, E2 Prince of Wales Apartments is a block on Bishops Way.

Prince of Wales Apartments, E2

Prospect Place, E2 Prospect Place was a former street of Cambridge Heath.

Prospect Place, E2

Pundersons Gardens, E2 Pundersons Gardens is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Pundersons Gardens, E2

Reynolds House, E2 Reynolds House is a block on Approach Road.

Reynolds House, E2

Rickman House, E1 Rickman House is a block on Rickman Street.

Rickman House, E1

Robinson Road, E2 Robinson Road is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Robinson Road, E2

Roger Dowley Close, E2 Roger Dowley Close is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Roger Dowley Close, E2

Roger Dowley Court, E2 Roger Dowley Court is a block on Russia Lane.

Roger Dowley Court, E2

Rosebery House, E2 Rosebery House is a block on Sewardstone Road.

Rosebery House, E2

Royston Street, E2 Royston Street is a road in the E2 postcode area

Royston Street, E2

Rushmead, E2 Rushmead is a road in the E2 postcode area

Rushmead, E2

Russia Lane, E2 Russia Lane was formerly called Rushy Lane.

Russia Lane, E2

Sankey House, E2 Sankey House is sited on St James’s Avenue.

Sankey House, E2

Sceptre Road, E2 Prior to the Second World War, Sceptre Road was slightly longer.

Sceptre Road, E2

Seabright Street, E2 Seabright Street is a shadow of its former self.

Seabright Street, E2

Seabright Terrace, E2 Seabright Place was a terrace along Hackney Road.

Seabright Terrace, E2

Seth Court, E2 Seth Court is a block on Parmiter Street.

Seth Court, E2

Shelley House, E2 Shelley House is a block on Bethnal Green Estate.

Shelley House, E2

Silk Weaver Way, E2 Silk Weaver Way connects Bishops Way and Parmiter Street.

Silk Weaver Way, E2

Sleigh House, E2 Sleigh House is a block on Roman Road.

Sleigh House, E2

St James’s Avenue, E2 St James’s Avenue is adjacent to the London Chest Hospital.

St James’s Avenue, E2

St Judes Road, E2 St Judes Road is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

St Judes Road, E2

Stafford Cripps House, E2 Stafford Cripps House is a block on Globe Road.

Stafford Cripps House, E2

Stapleton House, E2 Stapleton House is a block on Ellsworth Street.

Stapleton House, E2

Stockton House, E2 Residential block

Stockton House, E2

Suffolk Place, E2 Suffolk Place, built in 1812, became part of Hackney Road in 1862.

Suffolk Place, E2

Sugar Loaf Walk, E2 Sugar Loaf Walk is a road in the E2 postcode area

Sugar Loaf Walk, E2

Swinburne House, E2 Swinburne House is a block on Bethnal Green Estate.

Swinburne House, E2

Tarrant House, E2 Tarrant House is a block on Roman Road.

Tarrant House, E2

Ted Roberts House, E2 Ted Roberts House is a block on Parmiter Street.

Ted Roberts House, E2

Teesdale Close, E2 Teesdale Close, now a short street, was previously part of Teesdale Street which was split into two post-war.

Teesdale Close, E2

Teesdale Street, E2 Teesdale Street was Durham Street until 1875.

Teesdale Street, E2

Teesdale Yard, E2 Teesdale Yard is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Teesdale Yard, E2

Temple Street, E2 Temple Street formed the eastern boundary of the Rush Mead estate by 1821.

Temple Street, E2

Temple Yard, E2 Temple Yard is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Temple Yard, E2

The Green House, E2 The Green House is a block on Cambridge Heath Road.

The Green House, E2

Thomas Burt House, E2 Thomas Burt House can be found on Canrobert Street.

Thomas Burt House, E2

Thomas Hollywood House, E2 Thomas Hollywood House is located on Russia Lane.

Thomas Hollywood House, E2

Thornaby House, E2 Thornaby House is located on Canrobert Street.

Thornaby House, E2

Threaders Apartments, E2 Threaders Apartments is a block on Jersey Street.

Threaders Apartments, E2

Treadway Street, E2 Treadway Street was originally called Hope Street.

Treadway Street, E2

Tuscan House, E2 Tuscan House is a block on Digby Street.

Tuscan House, E2

Tussah House, E2 Tussah House is a block on Russia Lane.

Tussah House, E2

Verdigris Apartments, E2 Verdigris Apartments is a block on Old Bethnal Green Road.

Verdigris Apartments, E2

Viaduct Place, E2 Viaduct Place connects Viaduct Street with Seabright Street.

Viaduct Place, E2

Viaduct Street, E2 Viaduct Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Viaduct Street, E2

Victoria Park Square, E2 Victoria Park Square is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Victoria Park Square, E2

Welwyn Street, E2 Welwyn Street is a road in the E2 postcode area

Welwyn Street, E2

Wessex Street, E1 Wessex Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Wessex Street, E1

Westbrook House, E2 Westbrook House is a block on Globe Road.

Westbrook House, E2

Whitman House, E2 Whitman House is a building on Bethnal Green Estate.

Whitman House, E2

William Caslon House, E2 William Caslon House is a block on Patriot Square.

William Caslon House, E2

William Channing House, E2 William Channing House is a block on Canrobert Street.

William Channing House, E2

Wilmot Street, E2 Wilmot Street is one of the older Bethnal Green streets.

Wilmot Street, E2

Winkley Street, E2 Winkley Street was Catherine Street until 1938.

Winkley Street, E2

Witan Street, E2 Witan Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Witan Street, E2

NEARBY PUBS

Dundee Arms Dundee Arms Public House is sited on Cambridge Heath Road.

Dundee Arms

Florists Arms Florists Arms Public House is a pub on Globe Road.

Florists Arms

Sebright Arms Sebright Arms is a pub on Coate Street.

Sebright Arms

The Camel The Camel is a pub on Globe Road.

The Camel

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Bethnal Green

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.

LOCAL PHOTOS

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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 Credit: Wiki Commons/Sunil060902 TUM image id: 1606480779 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The original Black Boy pub. TUM image id: 1530023663 Licence: CC BY 2.0	A view east along Whitechapel Road including the Pavilion Theatre. The Pavilion was the first major theatre to open in the East End. It opened in 1827 and closed in 1935. TUM image id: 1622205635 Licence:	Brady Street looking toward the junction with Durward Street, 1979. TUM image id: 1490912211 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Buck's Row (Durward Street) in 1938. TUM image id: 1490922288 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Florida Street, Bethnal Green, looking east from Pollard Row (1939) The Hope pub on the left TUM image id: 1660579336 Licence: CC BY 2.0	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. TUM image id: 1660666220 Licence: CC BY 2.0	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. Credit: Wiki Commons/Reading Tom TUM image id: 1620383266 Licence:	Pollard Row (1939) TUM image id: 1574859171 Licence: CC BY 2.0	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 Credit: Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives TUM image id: 1677668158 Licence:
The Hare in Cambridge Heath Road TUM image id: 1658757525 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Winthrop Street looking east, c.1970. TUM image id: 1490921196 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Before roads were realigned post-war, St Peter’s Close and Nelson Gardens, Bethnal Green met one another at a junction. Credit: London Metropolitan Archives TUM image id: 1620300969 Licence:	Corfield Street TUM image id: 1580167928 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Little Collingwood Street c1900. This street vanished underneath the Collingwood Estate. TUM image id: 1677669712 Licence:

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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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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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Corfield Street
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Little Collingwood Street c1900. This street vanished underneath the Collingwood Estate.
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Palestine Place, led east from Cambridge Heath Road and featured the Episcopal Jews’ chapel. The chapel was built by the ’London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews’. The site was later the Bethnal Green Infirmary.
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The Dinmont Estate was designed by G. Topham Forrest for the LCC and completed in 1935-6.
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Seabright Street, Bethnal Green The houses which formerly lined the road were old Weavers Houses - you can tell by the wide upstairs windows. They let in more light for the weavers to work. There is now a park where these houses stood.
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Weavers Fields and the former Hague Street School Hague Street School moved out of this building in the 1960s, when Weavers Fields park was expanded and numerous streets that had provided children to the school were curtailed or obliterated.
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