Orion House, E1

Block in/near Whitechapel, existing between 1964 and now

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Orion House is an 11-storey block on the Collingwood Estate.

It was built in the mid 1960s.

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Abingdon Street, E1 Abingdon Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
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)
Ainsley Street, E2 Ainsley Street is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Allenbury Street, E2 Allenbury Street no longer exists (Bethnal Green)
Amiel Street, E1 Amiel Street is one of ten streets commemorating Stepney residents killed in the air raids of the Second World War (Stepney Green)
Anchor House, E1 Anchor House is a block on Mile End Road (Stepney Green)
Anchor Terrace, E1 Anchor Terrace is a named section of Cephas Avenue (Stepney Green)
Andover Court, E2 Andover Court is a building on Mint Street (Bethnal Green)
Ansell House, E1 Ansell House was the first block built on the Sidney Estate (Stepney)
Arundel Street, Arundel Street is an old East End street (Whitechapel)
Ashington House, E1 Ashington House is a block on Barnsley Street (Bethnal Green)
Assembly Passage, E1 Assembly Passage is a long, cobbled walkway that leads from Mile End Road to Redmans Road (Stepney Green)
Bahram Court, E2 Bahram Court is a block on Mint Street (Bethnal Green)
Baker’s Row, E1 Baker’s Row became Vallance Road in 1896
Bancroft House, E1 Bancroft House is a block on Malcolm Road (Stepney Green)
Barbanel House, E1 Barbanel House is sited on Colebert Avenue (Stepney Green)
Barnsley Street, E1 Barnsley Street is a road in the E1 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Barwell House, E2 Barwell House is a block on Menotti Street (Bethnal Green)
Bath Street, In Poplar E14, Ann’s Place became Bath Street in 1891 (Whitechapel)
Berry House, E1 Berry House is located on Headlam Street (Whitechapel)
Bethnal Green Road, E2 Bethnal Green Road was a Victorian invention (Bethnal Green)
Birkbeck Street, E2 Birkbeck Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Blackwood House, E1 Blackwood House is a block on Collingwood Street (Whitechapel)
Blitheale Court, E2 Blitheale Court is a block on Witan Street (Bethnal Green)
Bradbeer House, E2 Bradbeer House can be found on Bethnal Green Estate (Bethnal Green)
Brady Street, E1 Brady Street is a road running north-south from Three Colts Lane to Whitechapel Road (Whitechapel)
Braintree House, E1 Braintree House is named for the road it would have previously faced - Braintree Street (Stepney Green)
Braintree Street, E1 Braintree Street, like Hadleigh Street, was named after a town in Essex (Bethnal Green)
Buckhurst Street, E1 Buckhurst Street runs alongside St Bartholomew Gardens (Stepney Green)
Bullen House, E1 Bullen House is a building on Collingwood Street (Whitechapel)
Burns House, E2 Burns House is located on Bethnal Green Estate (Bethnal Green)
Cambridge Heath Road, E1 Cambridge Heath Road was originally Cambridge Road (Stepney Green)
Cannon Place, E1 Cannon Place is an old East End street (Whitechapel)
Carlisle Street, Carlisle Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Castlemain Street, E1 Castlemain Street is a road in the E1 postcode area (Whitechapel)
Cavell Street, E1 Cavell Street is a road in the E1W postcode area (Whitechapel)
Cephas House, E1 Cephas House is a block on Wickford Street (Stepney Green)
Cephas Street, E1 One of two Silver Streets in the area along with Park Street and Peter Street became Cephas Street in 1865 (Stepney Green)
Chapter House, E2 Chapter House is a block on Dunbridge Street (Bethnal Green)
Chesworth Court, E1 Chesworth Court is one of the blocks grouped around Fulneck Place (Stepney Green)
Chronos Building, E1 Chronos Building is a building on Mile End Road (Stepney Green)
Clarence Street, Clarence Street is an old East End street (Spitalfields)
Cleveland Grove, E1 Cleveland Grove, a cul-de-sac, leads west from Cleveland Street (Stepney Green)
Cleveland Street, E1 Cleveland Street replaced the delightfully-named Red Cow Lane (Stepney Green)
Cleveland Way, E1 Cleveland Way commemorates the Wentworth family, lords of the manor of Stepney from 1550 and earls of Cleveland from 1626-67. (Stepney Green)
Codrington Court, E1 Codrington Court is sited on Scott Street (Whitechapel)
Colebert Avenue, E1 Colebert Avenue was named in 1948 (Stepney Green)
Colebert House, E1 Colebert House can be found on Colebert Avenue (Stepney Green)
Colin Winter House, E1 Colin Winter House is a block on Nicholas Road (Stepney Green)
Collingwood House, E1 Collingwood House is a block on Cambridge Heath Road (Whitechapel)
Collingwood Street, E1 Collingwood Street is a road in the E1 postcode area (Whitechapel)
Coopers Close, E1 Coopers Close is a road built over the site of the Anchor Brewery (Stepney Green)
Corfield Street, E2 Corfield Street runs along the route of the former Camden Gardens (Bethnal Green)
Cornerstone Court, E1 Cornerstone Court is a building on Hemming Street (Whitechapel)
Cornwall Avenue, E2 Cornwall Avenue is a no-through road running off of Braintree Street (Bethnal Green)
Cornwall Road, Cornwall Road is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Cotherstone Court, E2 Cotherstone Court is a block on Mint Street (Bethnal Green)
Court Street, E1 Court Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Whitechapel)
Coventry Road, E1 A street within the E1 postcode (Bethnal Green)
Coventry Street, E1 Suffolk Street was renamed to Coventry Street, E2 in 1881 (Bethnal 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)
Cudworth Street, E1 Cudworth Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Cutters Court, E2 Cutters Court is sited on Three Colts Lane (Bethnal Green)
Darling Place, E1 Darling Place was merged into Darling Row (Whitechapel)
Darling Row, E1 Darling Row is a road in the E1 postcode area (Whitechapel)
Davenant House, E1 Davenant House is a block on Old Montague Street
Derbyshire Street, E2 Derbyshire Street originated as part of the Willetts estate (Bethnal Green)
Devonshire Street, E1 Devonshire Street East (and West) became Devonshire Street in 1865 (Stepney Green)
Donegal House, E1 Donegal House was built in 1970 as part of the Collingwood Estate (Bethnal Green)
Doveton House, E1 Doveton House is a block on Doveton Street (Stepney Green)
Doveton Street, E1 Doveton Street was formerly Queen Street (until 1883), Queen’s Court and Peacock Place (earlier) (Stepney Green)
Dressage Court, E2 Dressage Court is a block on Three Colts Lane (Bethnal Green)
Dron House, E1 Dron House is a block on Adelina Grove (Stepney)
Ducie Street, Ducie Street is an old East End street (Whitechapel)
Dunbridge Street, E2 Dunbridge Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Durward Street, E1 Durward Street is a narrow thoroughfare running east-west from Brady Street to Baker’s Row (today’s Vallance Road) (Whitechapel)
Eagle House, E1 Eagle House can be found on Headlam Street (Whitechapel)
East Mount Street, E1 East Mount Street is a road in the E1 postcode area (Whitechapel)
Eastman, Eastman is an old East End street (Whitechapel)
Edward Street, E1 Edward Street connected Cephas Street with Nicholas Street (Stepney Green)
Edwards Passage, E1 Edwards Passage leads north off Mile End Road beside the Trinity Almshouses (Stepney Green)
Edwin Street, E1 Edwin Street runs south from Cephas Street (Stepney Green)
Elizabeth Bates Court, E1 Elizabeth Bates Court is a block on Mile End Road (Stepney Green)
Embassy Court, E1 Embassy Court is a block on Brady Street (Bethnal Green)
Entick Street, E2 Entick Street was near to Malcolm Place - the course of the road still visible as a path parallel to Braintree Street (Bethnal Green)
Epping Place, E1 Epping Place was an old name for the northernmost end of Sidney Street (Whitechapel)
Essex Street, E1 Essex Street, at first called Isaac Street, was largely redeveloped after the Second World War (Bethnal Green)
Fakruddin Street, E1 A street within the E1 postcode (Whitechapel)
Fellbrigg Street, E1 Norfolk Street, E1 was renamed as Fellbrigg Street, E1 in 1883 (Whitechapel)
Finnis Street, Finnis Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Forber House, E2 Forber House is a block on Braintree Street (Bethnal Green)
Foster Street, E1 Foster Street may date from the 1830s (Whitechapel)
Fountain Apartments, E2 Fountain Apartments is a block on Sceptre Road (Bethnal Green)
Fox Close, E1 Most local street names - Fox Close included - commemorated local victims of the Blitz (Stepney Green)
Fox Street, Fox Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Fremantle House, E1 Fremantle House is located on Brady Street (Whitechapel)
Friesian House, E2 Friesian House can be found on Buckhurst Street (Bethnal Green)
Fulbourne Street, E1 Fulbourne Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Whitechapel)
Fulneck Place, E1 Fulneck Place is a short cul-de-sac which runs under a modern arch (Stepney Green)
Furness Street , Furness Street is an old East End street
Gibson Close, E1 Gibson Close originated in 1948 (Stepney Green)
Glass Street, E2 Glass Street is a road in the E2 postcode area (Bethnal Green)
Globe Apartments, E1 The Globe Apartments are located on Globe Road on the corner of Portman Place (Bethnal Green)
Granary Road, E1 Granary Road is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Whitechapel)
Granby Row, Granby Row is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Greenheath Business Centre, E2 Greenheath Business Centre is a Bethnal Green commercial area (Bethnal Green)
Grindall House, E1 Grindall House is a building on Collingwood Street (Whitechapel)
Grove Dwellings, E1 Grove Dwellings - in separate blocks - were built in 1910 on land leased from the Mercers company (Stepney)
Hadleigh Close, E1 Hadleigh Close is a right-angled road, part of the Rogers Estate (Stepney Green)
Hadleigh House, E1 Hadleigh House is located on Lang Street (Stepney Green)
Hadleigh Street, E1 Hadleigh Street is one of a number of local streets with an Essex connection (Bethnal Green)
Hadleigh Walk, E1 Hadleigh Walk connects Hadleigh Street to the west (Stepney Green)
Hague Street, E2 Hague Street was built in 1826 (Bethnal Green)
Hannibal Road, E1 Hannibal Road leads south from the junction of Mile End Road and Stepney Green (Stepney Green)
Harvey House, E1 Harvey House is a block on Brady Street (Whitechapel)
Headlam Street, E1 Headlam Street is a road in the E1 postcode area (Whitechapel)
Heathpool Court, E1 Heathpool Court is a block on Brady Street (Whitechapel)
Hemming Street, E1 Hemming Street commemorates Edward Hemming, who represented Bethnal Green on the first select vestry of the parish of Stepney in 1589. (Whitechapel)
Herald Street, E2 Herald Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Hughes Mansions, E1 Hughes Mansions originally consisted of three roughly similar blocks containing 93 flats spread over the three buildings (Whitechapel)
Ibbott Street, E1 The name Ibbott Street was approved in 1948 (Stepney Green)
James Street, James Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
John Pritchard House, E1 John Pritchard House is sited on Buxton Street
Kelsey Street, E2 Kelsey Street was called Cross Street until 1869 (Bethnal Green)
Kempton Court, E1 Kempton Court is a block on Durward Street, built in 1995 (Whitechapel)
Kenton House, E1 Kenton House is a building on Mantus Road (Stepney Green)
Key Close, E1 Key Close lies off Cambridge Heath Road (Stepney Green)
King Street, E1 King Street was renamed Wickford Street in 1912 (Stepney Green)
Kinsham House, E2 Kinsham House is a block on Ramsey Street (Bethnal Green)
Lang Street, E1 Lang Street is a post-war road (Stepney Green)
Lindley House, E1 Lindley House is a block on Lindley Street (Stepney)
Lisbon Street, Lisbon Street is an old East End street (Whitechapel)
Lister House, E1 Lister House is located on Lomas Street (Whitechapel)
Little Collingwood Street, E1 Little Collingwood Street once ran parallel with Collingwood Street (Whitechapel)
Lomas Street, E1 A street within the E1 postcode (Whitechapel)
London Street, The Opening, E14 was renamed as London Street, E14 in 1888 (Bethnal Green)
Malcolm Place, E1 Malcolm Place runs along the railway and the south edge of Bethnal Green Gardens (Stepney Green)
Malcolm Road, E1 Malcolm Road was a new name for the southern section of Braintree Street after 1949 (Stepney Green)
Mantus Close, E1 Mantus Close was named after one of the Stepney victims of the Blitz (Stepney Green)
Mantus Road, E1 Mantus Road runs south of the railway line into Bethnal Green, (Stepney Green)
Mape Street, E2 While much altered, Mape Street began life in 1826 (Bethnal Green)
Maples Place, E1 Cannon Place became Maples Place in 1938 (Whitechapel)
Mariana Court, E1 Mariana Court is a block on Assembly Passage (Stepney)
Matcham Court, E1 Matcham Court is a block on Hannibal Road (Stepney Green)
McCalla House, E1 McCalla House is located on Pedley Street (Bethnal Green)
Mccoy House, E2 Mccoy House is a building on Three Colts Lane (Bethnal Green)
Menotti Street, E2 Menotti Street, a shadow of its former length, was called Manchester Street until 1864 (Bethnal Green)
Merceron Street, E1 Merceron Street is a road in the E1 postcode area (Whitechapel)
Middlesea Street , Middlesea Street is an old East End street (Whitechapel)
Mocatta House, E1 Mocatta House is a block on Brady Street (Whitechapel)
Neath Terrace , Neath Terrace is an old East End street (Whitechapel)
Nicholas Road, E1 Nicholas Road replaced the pre-war Nicholas Street (Stepney Green)
Nicholas Street, E1 The former Green Street was given the name Nicholas Street in 1882 (Stepney Green)
Northampton Street, Northampton Street is an old East End street (Whitechapel)
Northesk House, E1 Northesk House is a block on Tent Street (Bethnal 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)
Octagon Street, E1 Octagon Street appears on maps between 1900 and 1950 (Whitechapel)
Orion House, E1 Orion House is an 11-storey block on the Collingwood Estate (Whitechapel)
Pacific Court, E1 Pacific Court is a building on Assembly Passage (Stepney)
Park House, E1 Park House is a block on Mile End Road (Stepney Green)
Pauline House, E1 Pauline House is a block on Old Montague Street
Pavan Court, E2 Pavan Court is located on Sceptre Road (Bethnal Green)
Pelican House, E1 Pelican House is a block on Cambridge Heath Road (Stepney Green)
Pellew House, E1 Pellew House is a block on Somerford Street (Whitechapel)
Pemell Close, E1 Pemell Close marks one of the names - chosen by lot - of Stepney residents killed in Second World War air raids (Stepney Green)
Pereira Street, E1 Pereira Street ran north/south in Bethnal Green (Whitechapel)
Peretra Street, Peretra Street is an old East End street (Whitechapel)
Phoenix Court, E1 Phoenix Court is a block on Cudworth Street (Bethnal Green)
Platinium Court, E1 Platinium Court is a block on Cephas Avenue (Stepney Green)
Portman Place, E1 Portman Place crosses Globe Road north of the railway tracks (Stepney Green)
Pott Street, E2 Pott Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Queen Street, E1 In 1883, King Street, E1 became Queen Street, E1
Ramsey Street, E2 A road with a long history, Ramsey Street has been realigned since the Second World War (Bethnal Green)
Raven Row, E1 Raven Row appears in 1832, probably named for the builder. (Whitechapel)
Red Cow Lane, E1 Red Cow Lane was an ancient Stepney thoroughfare linking Dog Row with Mile End Road (Stepney Green)
Redclyf House, E1 Redclyf House is a block on Stothard Street (Stepney Green)
Redmill House, E1 Redmill House is a block on Headlam Street (Whitechapel)
Regal Close, E1 Regal Close is a road in the E1 postcode area
Rickman House, E1 Rickman House is a block on Rickman Street (Stepney Green)
Rickman Street, E1 Rickman Street was a street from the immediate post-war period (Stepney Green)
Rochester Court, E2 Rochester Court is a block on Wilmot Street (Bethnal Green)
Rutherford House, E1 Rutherford House is a block on Brady Street (Whitechapel)
Ryder House, E1 Ryder House is a block on Colebert Avenue (Stepney Green)
Sceptre House, E1 Sceptre House is a block on Malcolm Road (Stepney Green)
Sceptre Street, E1 The southernmost section of Sceptre Road was called Sceptre Street (Stepney Green)
Scott Street, E1 Scott Street is a road in the E1 postcode area (Whitechapel)
Seabright Street, E2 Seabright Street is a shadow of its former self (Bethnal Green)
Selby Street, E1 Selby Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Whitechapel)
Shelley House, E2 Shelley House is a block on Bethnal Green Estate (Bethnal Green)
Sherren House, E1 Sherren House can be found on Nicholas Road (Stepney Green)
Somerford Street, E1 Somerford Street is a road in the E1 postcode area (Whitechapel)
Southampton Terrace, Southampton Terrace is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Sovereign House, E1 Sovereign House dates from 1970 (Stepney Green)
Soyeux Apartments, E1 Soyeux Apartments is a block on Scott Street (Whitechapel)
St Andrew Street, St Andrew Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
St Peters Court, E1 St Peters Court is sited on Cephas Street (Stepney Green)
St Peters Road, E1 St Peters Road ran along the line of modern Cephas Avenue (Stepney Green)
Stafford Cripps House, E2 Stafford Cripps House is a block on Globe Road (Bethnal Green)
Steeple Court, E1 Steeple Court is a block on Coventry Road (Bethnal Green)
Stepney Green Court, E1 Stepney Green Court is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Whitechapel)
Stothard House, E1 Stothard House is located on Colebert Avenue (Stepney Green)
Stothard Street, E1 Stothard Street was named after a victim of Second World War bombing (Stepney Green)
Summerford Street, Summerford Street is an old East End street (Whitechapel)
Surma Close, E1 Surma Close is a road in the E1 postcode area (Whitechapel)
Tap Street, Tap Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Tapp Street, E2 Tapp Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Teal Street, Teal Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Tent Street, E1 Tent Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Three Colt Lane, Three Colt Lane is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Three Colts Lane, E1 Three Colts Lane is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Trahorn Close, E1 Trahorn Close is a road in the E1 postcode area (Whitechapel)
Tree House, E1 Tree House is located on Jubilee Street (Stepney)
Treves House, E1 Treves House is a block on Vallance Road (Whitechapel)
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)
Vallance Road, E1 Vallance Road is a significant road running north-south from Bethnal Green Road to Whitechapel Road. (Whitechapel)
Vallance Road, E2 The Bethnal Green end of Vallance Road was originally called White Street (Bethnal Green)
Vawdrey Close, E1 Vawdrey Close replaced an older street called Whitehead Street (Stepney Green)
Viaduct Place, E2 Viaduct Place connects Viaduct Street with Seabright Street (Bethnal Green)
Viaduct Street, E2 Viaduct Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Violet Street, Violet Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Voss Street, E2 Voss Street is the successor to an interlinked series of alleyways behind Bethnal Green Road (Bethnal Green)
Wessex Street, E2 Wessex Street was one of the renamings of the many Essex Streets of London (Bethnal Green)
Westhope House, E2 Westhope House is a block on Derbyshire Street (Bethnal Green)
White Street, E2 White Street was the former name for part of Vallance Road (Bethnal Green)
Whitehead Street, E1 Union Street was renamed Whitehead Street in 1882 (Stepney Green)
Wickford House, E1 Wickford House is part of the 1948-built Cleveland estate (Stepney Green)
Wickford Street, E1 Wickford Street was a new name for King Street (Stepney Green)
Wilmot Street, E2 Wilmot Street is one of the older Bethnal Green streets (Bethnal Green)
Winchester Street, Winchester Street is an old East End street (Bethnal Green)
Winthrop Street, E1 Winthrop Street was formerly a narrow street running east-west from Brady Street to Durward Street (Whitechapel)
Witan Street, E2 Witan Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area (Bethnal Green)
Wodeham Gardens, E1 Wodeham Gardens is a road in the E1 postcode area (Whitechapel)
Wood’s Buildings, E1 Wood’s Buildings, a narrow passageway, extended north from Whitechapel Road and led to Winthrop Street. (Whitechapel)
Wyllen Close, E1 Wyllen Close is the name of both a road and blocks to which the road leads (Stepney Green)


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