Emily Street, E16
Emily Street at the junction of Jude Street, Canning Town, 1925
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Emily Street, devastatingly bombed during the Second World War, is a cul-de-sac today.

By the late 1860s, John Greengrass, a beer retailer, was listed as living in the street. Emily Street’s pub was called ’The Rose of Denmark’.

The street’s history before the 1860s is unknown.

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