Belvedere
this post has not been edited, checked or finishedBedonwell RoadBedonwell School 1936,Baptist mission chapel late 19thBelmont RoadBelmont Snooker Club,27 Pheasant pub125 Belmont HouseBelmont Road...
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this post has not been edited, checked or finishedBelmont RoadGrooms Bakery. Founded by Louis Groom in 1886. Opened here in 1906. Extended 1925. Merged to form the British Bakeries conglomerate in...
View ArticleBexleyheath
this post has not been edited, checked or finishedBexleyheath Was Bexley New Town - common land enclosed following Act of 1814 passed to get rid of squatters. Just a tree and a windmill until the...
View ArticleErith
this post has not been edited, checked or finished Avenue Road 14 Prince of WalesWheatley Mansion,Congregational Chapel, largely set up by Anderson,Lesney House, Anderson's home,Northumberland Heath...
View ArticleBarnhurst
this post has not been edited, checked or finishedAvenue Road 14 Prince of WalesWheatley Mansion,Congregational Chapel, largely set up by Anderson,Lesney House, Anderson's home,Northumberland Heath...
View ArticleCrayford
this post has not been edited, checked or finishedArthur StreetBaptist missionary hall built by the Queen Street Baptist Church in 1919.Housing development of the early 1960s with 265 homes in a mix...
View ArticleBarnes Cray
this post has not been edited, checked or finishedBarnes Cray On the site of the medieval manor of Ellam. Named for the Barne family who owned the marsh area. Marked thus on the Ordnance Survey map...
View ArticleSouth Hackney
this post is not finished, checked or editedBentham Road Gascoyne Estate, 1950s London County Council housing. First slab block inspired by Le Corbusier. Brutalist block first use of Alton like...
View ArticleVictoria Park
this post is not finished, checked or editedApproach Roadprincipal street lined on each side by mature plane trees. Its proportions are commensurate with a formal grand avenue but it begins oddly, off...
View ArticleWhitechapel
this post is not finished, checked or editedAdler Street Suffered badly from a flying bomb and was entirely rebuilt. In this small area before the war there was a Jewish reading room and two...
View ArticleStepney
this post is not finished, checked or editedAdelina GroveEstate for people displaced by the London Wool Exchange building in 1929.Albert GardensFormerly Albert Square. Ruined by GLC with new...
View ArticleWest Ham (Plaistow)
This post is not finished and has not been edited or checkedAbbey Abbey RoadRailway bridge site is centre of Abbey Electricity sub station is site of burial ground, burials removed when it was built....
View ArticleWest Ham Station
This post is not finished and has not been edited or checkedBethell Avenue:Franciscan Friary 1901 Missionaries of Mary. (R.C.), Founded 1897 by Franciscan missionaries of Mary and. partly used as an...
View ArticleUpton
this post is not finished and not edted or checkedLancaster RoadSt Antony's Schools 1903, a bulky. Board-school type elementary school Neville Road Baptist Church 1885. Single-storey hall Romford...
View ArticlePlaistow
this post is not finished and not edted or checkedBalaam StreetIts name is corruption of Balun, a family recorded in Plaistow from the cl2. Its once fashionable status is now long forgotten,...
View ArticlePlaistow
this post is not finished and not edted or checkedBalaam StreetSewer crossing Leisure Centre Glowering alongside monstrous swimming pool which superseded A. Saxon Snell’s Plaistow Baths. Barking...
View ArticleCanning Town
this post is not finished and not edted or checkedButchers RoadLater phases of development, undertaken in the mid-1950s, housing was introduced with flats and maisonettes in blocks grouped around...
View ArticleSummerstown
this post is not finished and not edted or checkedRoute of Surrey Iron RailwayFrom Summerstown Road follow Garratt LaneAboyne RoadGarratt Green School Garratt LaneGarrattGarratt was the main...
View ArticleTooting Bec
this post is not finished and not edted or checkedBeechcroft RoadBushey Down, Joseph Rank, the Yorkshire miller, lived at Bushey Down, on the south side of Tooting Bee Road, opposite the common,...
View ArticleTooting Graveney
this post is not finished and not edted or checkedAboyne Road,Garratt Green School. 1959 by the L.C.C. Architect's Department, for 2,200 girls. One of the first London comprehensives where the...
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