XX Place, E1

XX Place was built in 1842 for workers employed at the nearby Charringtons Brewery who called it “two X place” or “Double X Place”.

It was a very short road consisting of ten terraced houses running along one side of the street. Each house had a very small backyard.
On the other side was a Stepney Borough Council depot where kerbstones were stored.

There was a corner shop at the junction of XX Place and Globe Road. In the 1920s, it was for a while a doctor’s surgery. It then became a children’s clothing store and after that a radio shop.

There was a pub on the Mile End Road called the Black Boy. There was an alleyway down to the pub which was closed at the beginning of the 20th century to allow the redevelopment caused by the opening of Stepney Green station in 1902.

XX Place was demolished in 1958 as part of a London County Council slum clearance programme.




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