Jamaica Street, E1

Road in/near Stepney, existing between the 1840s and now

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2024
Jamaica Street is the successor street to King Street.

As King Street, it dated from around 1840 and originally ran further south to Commercial Road. Another street - Stracey Street - became part of Jamaica Street in 1867.

On its Stifford Estate, the sculpture ’Draped Seated Woman’ is by Henry Moore and dated 1958.


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NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE
Vine Tavern The Vine Tavern was situated on a site in the middle of Mile End Road, theoretically at number 31.
Wickhams Wickhams was a department store on the north side of the Mile End Road in London.

NEARBY STREETS
Adams House, E1 Adams House is a Grade II listed block of offices (Stepney Green)
Adelina Grove, E1 Adelina Grove became an estate for people displaced by the London Wool Exchange building in 1929 (Stepney)
Adelina Place, E1 Adelina Place was a very narrow side street of Adelina Grove (Stepney)
Adriatic House, E1 Adriatic House is located on Ernest Street (Stepney Green)
Alfred Street, E1 Alfred Street was the precursor street to Shandy Street (Stepney Green)
Allport Mews, E1 Allport Mews lies off Stepney Green itself (Stepney Green)
Anne Goodman House, E1 Anne Goodman House is sited on Jubilee Street (Stepney Green)
Ansell House, E1 Ansell House was the first block built on the Sidney Estate (Stepney)
Antcliff Street, E1 Antcliff Street was probably built by William Antcliff of Newham Street (Stepney)
Antcliffe Street, E1 Antcliffe Street formerly ran off Bromehead Road (Stepney)
Antill Terrace, E1 Antill Terrace was built off of Senrab Street (then Barbour Gardens) around 1865 (Stepney Green)
Apsley House, E1 Apsley House is a block on Aylward Street (Stepney Green)
Apsley Street, E1 Apsley Street was off Redman’s Road (Stepney Green)
Aral House, E1 Aral House is sited on Ernest Street (Stepney Green)
Arbour House, E1 Arbour House was designed by B.J. Belsher, the Stepney Borough Surveyor (Stepney Green)
Arbour Square, E1 Arbour Square is a late Georgian square in Stepney (Stepney Green)
Armsby House, E1 Armsby House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Ashfield Street, E1 Ashfield Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Whitechapel)
Assembly Passage, E1 Assembly Passage is a long, cobbled walkway that leads from Mile End Road to Redmans Road (Stepney Green)
Athlone House, E1 Athlone House is a block on Sidney Street (Stepney)
Avis Square, E1 Avis Square was created in 1961 (Stepney Green)
Aylward Street, E1 Aylward Street has a complicated history (Stepney Green)
Baltonsborough Court, E1 Baltonsborough Court is located on Ben Jonson Road (Stepney Green)
Barents House, E1 Barents House is the westernmost block on the Ocean Estate (Stepney Green)
Beatrice House, E1 Beatrice House was built after 1996 (Stepney Green)
Beaufort Gardens, E1 Beaufort Gardens runs down from Shandy Street to Trafalgar Gardens (Stepney Green)
Beaumont Grove, E1 Beaumont Grove runs south from Mile End Road (Stepney Green)
Beaumont Square, E1 Beaumont Square is a garden square that was laid out in 1840 as the centerpiece of the Beaumont Estate, a housing development by Captain J T Barber Beaumont. (Stepney Green)
Beaumont Street, E1 Beaumont Street was the predecessor name to Beaumont Grove (Stepney Green)
Beckett House, E1 Beckett House is part of a three block complex facing Jubilee Street (Stepney)
Bedford Square, E1 Bedford Square is an old East End square (Stepney)
Bedford Street, E1 Bedford Square, Shadwell was called Bedford Street after 1894 (Whitechapel)
Bermuda Street, E1 Bermuda Street was an old East End street (Stepney Green)
Bladen House, E1 Bladen House is a block on Dunelm Street (Stepney Green)
Boisseau House, E1 Boisseau House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Brayford Square, E1 Brayford Square is a small shopping area from 1978 (Stepney Green)
Bromehead Road, E1 Bromehead Road is a location in London (Stepney)
Bromehead Street, E1 A vestige remains of Bromehead Street, formerly a main connecting street of the area (Stepney)
Bromley Street, E1 Bromley Street was built between 1829 and 1843 by Daniel Goody (Stepney Green)
Burley House, E1 Burley House is part of the Mountmorres Estate (Stepney Green)
Cameron Place, Frederick Place was called Cameron Place after 1882 (Stepney)
Cannon Place, E1 Cannon Place is an old East End street (Whitechapel)
Carmelo Mews, E1 Carmelo Mews is a mews behind the houses on the east side of Stepney Green (Stepney Green)
Carpenter House, E1 Carpenter House faces Trafalgar Gardens (Stepney Green)
Cavell House, E1 Cavell House is a block on Cavell Street (Stepney)
Chesworth Court, E1 Chesworth Court is sited on Hannibal Road (Stepney Green)
Chronos Building, E1 Chronos Building is a building on Mile End Road (Stepney Green)
Chudleigh Street, E1 Chudleigh Street was called Albany Street until 1938 (Stepney Green)
Clark Street, E1 Clark Street is a long and old street of Stepney (Stepney Green)
Clearbrook Way, E1 Clearbrook Way is a modern cul-de-sac, running west off West Arbour Street (Stepney Green)
Cleveland Grove, E1 Cleveland Grove, a cul-de-sac, leads west from Cleveland Street (Stepney Green)
Clichy House, E1 Clichy House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Clovelly Way, E1 A street within the E1 postcode (Stepney Green)
Coburg Dwellings, E1 Coburg Dwellings is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Stepney)
Collingwood House, E1 Collingwood House is a block on Cambridge Heath Road (Whitechapel)
Colstead House, E1 Colstead House is a block on Watney Market (Stepney)
Colverson House, E1 Colverson House is a block on the Sidney Estate (Stepney)
Copley Street, E1 Copley Street now runs south from Stepney Way (Stepney Green)
Cornwood Drive, E1 Cornwood Drive runs off Jubilee Street (Stepney)
Cosmo Apartments, E1 Cosmo Apartments is sited on Westport Street (Shadwell)
Cottage Court, E1 Cottage Court was situated off Hayfield Passage, first visible on the 1860s mapping (Stepney Green)
Cressy Court, E1 Cressy Court was called Little Union Place until 1937 (Stepney Green)
Cressy House, E1 Cressy House was built at the corner of Cressy Place and Hannibal Road in 1894 (Stepney Green)
Cressy Place, E1 Cressy Place is one of the older streets in Stepney Green (Stepney Green)
Dagobert House, E1 Dagobert House is a block on Smithy Street (Stepney)
Damien Court, E1 Damien Court is a block on Damien Street (Stepney)
Damien Street, E1 Damien Street is a road in the E1 postcode area (Stepney)
Darling Row, E1 Darling Row is a road in the E1 postcode area (Whitechapel)
Darting Road, Darting Road is an old East End street (Whitechapel)
Dempsey Street, E1 Dempsey Street was created before 1830 along with surrounding streets (Stepney Green)
Diggon Street, E1 Diggon Street is now a small remnant cul-de-sac off Stepney Way (Stepney Green)
Drake House, E1 Drake House can be found on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Dron House, E1 Dron House is a block on Adelina Grove (Stepney)
Dundalk House, E1 Dundalk House faces Clark Street (Stepney Green)
Dunelm Street, E1 Fair Street was renamed Dunelm Street in 1939 (Stepney Green)
Dunstan Houses, E1 Dunstan Houses on Stepney Green were built in 1899 by the East End Dwellings Company to provide housing for the poor (Stepney Green)
East Arbour Street, E1 East Arbour Street leads north from Arbour Square (Stepney Green)
East Cross Centre, E1 East Cross Centre is one of the streets of London in the E15 postal area (Stepney)
Eastbury Terrace, E1 Eastbury Terrace has a complicated history as a street name (Stepney Green)
Eaton Place, E1 Eaton Place seems to have originated in the 1860s and was renamed Shiloh Place in 1938 (Stepney Green)
Edwards Passage, E1 Edwards Passage leads north off Mile End Road beside the Trinity Almshouses (Stepney Green)
Elektra House, E1 Elektra House is a block on Ashfield Street (Stepney)
Elizabeth Bates Court, E1 Elizabeth Bates Court is a block on Mile End Road (Stepney Green)
Epping Place, E1 Epping Place was an old name for the northernmost end of Sidney Street (Whitechapel)
Ernest Street, E1 Ernest Street was one of the few streets in the area to survive the Blitz (Stepney Green)
Exmouth Court, E1 Exmouth Court appears on the 1900 map (Stepney Green)
Exmouth Place, E1 Exmouth Place is on the 1860 map (Stepney Green)
Exmouth Street, E1 Exmouth Street was largely destroyed during the Second World War and replaced by residential blocks on the Clicky Estate (Stepney)
Fair Street, E1 Fair Street ran from Oxford Street to Charles Street (Stepney Green)
Farrier Court, E1 Farrier Court is a block on the corner of White Horse Lane and Killick Way (Stepney Green)
Ford House, E1 Ford House is a block on Ford Square (Stepney)
Ford Square, E1 Ford Square is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Stepney)
Friendly Place, E1 Friendly Place ran behind buildings on Mile End Road (Stepney Green)
Fulneck Place, E1 Fulneck Place is a short cul-de-sac which runs under a modern arch (Stepney Green)
Galway House, E1 Galway House is a block on White Horse Lane (Stepney Green)
Garden Street, E1 Garden Street lies to the rear of what was called ’King John’s Palace’ (Stepney Green)
Gardom Street, E1 Gardom Street was a former street of Stepney (Stepney Green)
Gateway House, E1 Gateway House is a block on Cavell Street (Stepney)
George Scott House, E1 George Scott House is a block on West Arbour Street (Stepney Green)
Gold Street, E1 Prospect Place was renamed as Gold Street in 1882 (Stepney Green)
Greenwich Court, E1 Greenwich Court is sited on Cavell Street (Stepney)
Grindall House, E1 Grindall House is a building on Collingwood Street (Whitechapel)
Grosvenor Street, E1 Grosvenor Street was renamed Mountmorres Road in 1939 (Stepney Green)
Hainton Close, E1 Hainton Close is a road in the E1 postcode area (Shadwell)
Halcrow Street, E1 A street within the E1 postcode (Whitechapel)
Hannibal Road, E1 Hannibal Road leads south from the junction of Mile End Road and Stepney Green (Stepney Green)
Harriott House, E1 Harriott House is a block on Jamaica Street (Stepney Green)
Hawkins Street, E1 Hawkins Street is an old East End street, appearing on maps during the 1840s (Stepney)
Hayfield Court, E1 Hayfield Court is a block on Hayfield Passage (Stepney Green)
Hayfield House, E1 Hayfield House is a block on Hayfield Passage (Stepney Green)
Hayfield Passage, E1 Hayfield Passage leads down to Stepney Green from Mile End Road (Stepney Green)
Hayfield Place, E1 Hayfield Place was an old courtyard leading south off Mile End Road (Stepney Green)
Hayfield Yard, E1 Hayfield Yard appears to date from the turn of the nineteenth century and possibly before (Stepney Green)
Head Street, E1 Head Street replaced Heath Street in 1938 (Shadwell)
Heath Street, E1 Heath Street was the location of a rope walk by the beginning of the nineteenth century (Stepney Green)
Ivy House, E1 Ivy House is a block on Nelson Street (Stepney)
Jacqueline House, E1 Jacqueline House is a building on White Horse Lane (Stepney Green)
Jamaica Street, E1 Jamaica Street is the successor street to King Street (Stepney)
Jarman House, E1 Jarman House, Beckett House and Wingrand House were built as a single block on the Sidney Estate (Stepney)
Jean Pardies House, E1 Jean Pardies House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Johns Place, E1 Despite a post-war expansion of the road name, Johns Place is an older street of Stepney (Stepney)
Jubilee Street, E1 Jubilee Street was built off the then-new Commercial Road and named to commemorate the Jubilee of George III in 1810. (Stepney Green)
Justice Apartments, E1 Justice Apartments is a block on Aylward Street (Stepney Green)
Kerry House, E1 Kerry House is a block on the southern part of the Sidney Estate (Stepney)
Key Close, E1 Key Close lies off Cambridge Heath Road (Stepney Green)
King John Street, E1 King John Street leads off Stepney Green (Stepney Green)
King Street, E1 King Street was one of two King Streets in Stepney, the other being nearer to Bethnal Green (Stepney)
Lady Micos Almshouses, E1 Lady Micos Almshouses offers lodgings exclusively for women in Stepney (Stepney Green)
Latham House, E1 Latham House is a block on Chudleigh Street (Stepney Green)
Le Moal House, E1 Le Moal House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Leigh House, E1 Leigh House is a block on Halcrow Street (Whitechapel)
Levitas House, E1 Levitas House are flats situated on Jubilee Street, dating from 2020 (Stepney Green)
Lighterman Mews, E1 Lighterman Mews is 1990s development (Stepney Green)
Lindley House, E1 Lindley House is a block on Lindley Street (Stepney)
Lindley Street, E1 Lindley Street first appeared on a Stepney map during the 1840s (Stepney)
Lisbon Street, Lisbon Street is an old East End street (Whitechapel)
Longford House, E1 Longford House is a one of a number of Irish county themed blocks dating from the late 1950s (Stepney)
Louisa Street, E1 Louisa Street leads off Beaumont Grove (Stepney Green)
Louise De Marillac House, E1 Louise De Marillac House is a block on Jubilee Street (Stepney)
Lower John Street, E1 Lower John Street (also simply ’John Street’) was short-lived street name of Stepney (Stepney Green)
Lydia Street, E1 Lydia Street was located along White Horse Lane just north of the modern Shandy Street (Stepney Green)
Maples Place, E1 Cannon Place became Maples Place in 1938 (Whitechapel)
Maria Terrace, E1 Maria Terrace lies off Beaumont Square (Stepney Green)
Mariana Court, E1 Mariana Court is a block on Assembly Passage (Stepney)
Marshgate House, E1 Marshgate House is a building on Bromehead Street (Stepney)
Matcham Court, E1 Matcham Court is a block on Hannibal Road (Stepney Green)
Mayo House, E1 Mayo House is a block on Lindley Street (Stepney)
Melwood House, E1 Melwood House is a block on Watney Street (Shadwell)
Mile End Road, E1 Mile End Road is an ancient route from London to the East, moved to its present alignment after the foundation of Bow Bridge in 1110. (Stepney Green)
Milrood House, E1 Milrood House is a block on Stepney Green (Stepney Green)
Morecambe Close, E1 Morecambe Close is a modern road leading off Beaumont Square (Stepney Green)
Mountmorres Road, E1 Grosvenor Street was called Mountmorres Road after 1939 (Stepney Green)
Mullan House, E1 Mullan House is a block on Nelson Street (Stepney)
Musbury Street, E1 Musbury Street is a street of post-war blocks of flats (Stepney Green)
Newbold Cottages, E1 Newbold Cottages is a block in Stepney (Stepney Green)
Newbold Street, E1 First appearing on the 1870 map, Newbold Street disappeared during the post-war rebuilding of the area (Stepney Green)
O’Leary Square, E1 O’Leary Square is a development of the Sidney Estate (Stepney)
Oasis Court, E1 Oasis Court is a block on Mile End Road (Stepney Green)
Odette Duval House, E1 Odette Duval House is a 9-storey block containing 52 dwellings (Stepney)
Old Church Road, E1 Old Church Road originally extended north from Commercial Road to Stepney Way, opposite St Dunstan’s Church. (Shadwell)
Oley Place, E1 Oley Place - originally Wellington Street - was part of an estate belonging to Clare College, Cambridge (Stepney Green)
Pacific Court, E1 Pacific Court is a building on Assembly Passage (Stepney)
Pacific House, E1 Pacific House is a block on Ernest Street (Stepney Green)
Painter House, E1 Painter House is a block on Sidney Street (Stepney)
Panama House, E1 Panama House is a block on Beaumont Square (Stepney Green)
Park House, E1 Park House is a block on Mile End Road (Stepney Green)
Pattison House, E1 Pattison House is a block on Aylward Street (Stepney Green)
Pattison Street, E1 Pattison Street ran southeast from a junction with Jamaica Street (Stepney Green)
Pegasus House, E1 Pegasus House is one of the post-war blocks surrounding Beaumont Square (Stepney Green)
Perth Street, E1 Perth Street was created as St Vincent Street during the 1830s (Stepney Green)
Planet Street, Star Street, Commercial Road East was called Planet Street after 1891 (Shadwell)
Pole Street, E1 Pole Street became part of Stepney Green Park (Stepney Green)
Portland Street, E1 Portland Street was replaced by Westport Street in 1939 (Stepney Green)
Potter House, E1 Potter House is a block on Beaufort Gardens (Stepney Green)
Press House, E1 Press House can be found on Trafalgar Gardens (Stepney Green)
Princes Street, E1 Princes Street was a former name for the northern section of Dempsey Street (Stepney)
Railton House, E1 Railton House is a block on Arbour Square (Shadwell)
Raven Row, E1 Raven Row appears in 1832, probably named for the builder. (Whitechapel)
Rectory Square, E1 Rectory Square, dating from the 1860s, was named from the rectory of St Dunstan’s parish church nearby (Stepney Green)
Recurrence Apartments, E1 Recurrence Apartments is located on Commercial Road (Stepney)
Redmans Road, E1 Redmans Road is a long east-west road of Stepney (Stepney Green)
Richardson Street, E1 Richardson Street ran from Lindley Street to Wolsey Street (Stepney)
Rochelle Court, E1 Rochelle Court are flats with shops underneath from 1938 (Shadwell)
Roland Mews, E1 Roland Mews emerges through an archway under Roland House (Stepney Green)
Rosery Court, E1 Rosery Court was built on the site of St Dunstan’s Rectory (Stepney Green)
Russell Street, E1 Little Russell Street became Russell Street in 1864 (7996) (Whitechapel)
Rutland Street, New Rutland Street was given the name Rutland Street, E1 in 1864 (Stepney)
Sambrook House, E1 Sambrook House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney)
Sandhurst House, E1 Sandhurst House can be found on Wolsey Street (Stepney)
Senrab Street, E1 Senrab Street is the name ’Barnes’ reversed (Stepney Green)
Shiloh Place, E1 Eaton Place became Shiloh Place in 1938 (Stepney Green)
Sidney Square, E1 Sidney Square is an old square dating from the 1820s (Stepney Green)
Sidney Street, E1 Sidney Street is a notably historic street of the East End (Stepney)
Siege House, E1 Siege House is a 10-storey block containing 70 dwellings (Stepney)
Silver Street, E1 Silver Street ran parallel with Gold Street, though it was narrower (Stepney Green)
Sligo House, E1 Sligo House is a block on Beaumont Grove (Stepney Green)
Smith Street, E1 Because of the number of Smith Streets in London, the road became Smithy Street during the 1930s (Stepney)
Smithy Street, E1 Smithy Street was called Smith Street until 1938 (Stepney)
Solway House, E1 Solway House is a block on Ernest Street (Stepney Green)
St Thomas House, E1 St Thomas House is a block on East Arbour Street (Stepney Green)
Star Street, E1 Star Street was, for a while, Planet Street (Shadwell)
Stepney City Apartments, E1 Stepney City Apartments is a modern pair of blocks on the corner of Jubilee Street and Clark Street (Stepney Green)
Stepney Green Court, E1 Stepney Green Court was built in 1895 (Stepney Green)
Stepney Green, E1 Stepney Green was originally a 15th century row of houses near to St Dunstan’s church (Stepney Green)
Stepney High Street, E1 Stepney High Street was previously the main street of Stepney (Stepney Green)
Stepney Way, E1 Stepney Way is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Stepney)
Stifford House, E1 Stifford House is a block on Stepney Way (Stepney Green)
Summercourt Road, E1 Summercourt Road is parallel with Commercial Road, one block north (Stepney Green)
Swan Place, E1 Swan Place was an old road absorbed during the nineteenth century into Sidney Street (Stepney)
Sydney House, E1 Sydney House is a block on the east side of Beaumont Square (Stepney Green)
Temple Court, E1 Temple Court can be found on Rectory Square (Stepney Green)
Tillotson Street, E1 Tillotson Street was built on land belonging to Clare College, Cambridge (Stepney Green)
Tottan Terrace, E1 Tottan Terrace is a pathway along the southern edge of the Belgrave Open Space (Stepney Green)
Trafalgar Gardens, E1 Trafalgar Gardens was previously Trafalgar Square until 1938 (Stepney Green)
Tree House, E1 Tree House is located on Jubilee Street (Stepney)
Trinity Green, E1 Trinity Green is the nominal address of the Trinity Green Almshouses (Stepney Green)
Trinity Mews, E1 Trinity Mews is a modern development (Stepney)
Vawdrey Close, E1 Vawdrey Close replaced an older street called Whitehead Street (Stepney Green)
Vine Cottages, E1 Vine Cottages is the name of a 1960s block facing Jubilee Gardens (Stepney Green)
Walter Street, E1 Walter Street was swept away after the Second World War (Stepney Green)
Walter Terrace, E1 Walter Terrace is a renaming of the southern end of Walter Street in 1939 (Stepney Green)
Watney Market, E1 A street within the E1 postcode (Shadwell)
Wellesley Street, E1 Wellesley Street was severely truncated post-war (Stepney Green)
West Arbour Street, E1 West Arbour Street runs north from Commercial Road to Aylward Street (Stepney Green)
Westport Street, E1 Westport Street runs north from Commercial Road (Stepney Green)
Wetton House, E1 Wetton House overlooks the southern edge of Stepney Green Park (Stepney Green)
Wexford House, E1 Wexford House is a 6-storey block containing 44 dwellings (Stepney)
White Horse Lane, E1 White Horse Lane originally meandered through the countryside, beginning its journey in Whitechapel and eventually converging with the similarly-named White Horse Street (Stepney Green)
Wickham Close, E1 Wickham Close is a road in the E1 postcode area (Stepney)
William Fry House, E1 William Fry House is a block on West Arbour Street (Stepney Green)
Wilton Court, E1 Wilton Court is a block on Cavell Street (Whitechapel)
Wingrad House, E1 Wingrad House is a block on the northern section of Jubilee Street (Stepney)
Winterton Street, E1 In Stepney E1, Devonshire Street became Winterton Street in 1890 (Shadwell)
Wolsey Street, E1 Wolsey Street is an old East End street of which a tiny remnant remains (Stepney)
Woollen House, E1 Woollen House is a block on Clark Street (Stepney Green)
Zion House, E1 Zion House is a residential building comprising 35 flats (Stepney Green)


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