Edith's Streets

Great Eastern Line to Ilford The Great Eastern line from Bethnal Green Station runs north eastwards Post to the south Mile End Post to the east Old Ford Anglo Road 112 The Lord Cardigan Pub . Dates from 1860s. Ordell Road 22 Ordell Arms . This pub dated from at least the 1870s but closed in 2001 and converted to housing. Tredegar Works . This site in the 19th was used by Perry & Co. undertakers of large scale construction projects who also had a saw mill here.  In the 1960s it was a transport depot for Kearley and Tonge, chain of small supermarkets who had a depot on the site responsible for the maintenance of 137 vehicles and 13 trailers and servicing for the 117 vehicles and 40 trailers in their fleet. It was later used by Stanton Rubber and Plastic who left in 2003 since when it has been used for housing. Roman Road Old Ford's principal shopping street, so-named since the 1860s when Roman remains were first discovered at its end close to the site of the 'o...

Great Eastern Railway Line to Ilford The Great Eastern Railway Line from Bethnal Green Station runs north eastwards Post to the west Mile End Post to the north Roman Road Bow Post to the east Bromley By Bow Post to the south Stepney Benworth Street Flats with a plaque for Poplar Borough Council 1932. Bow Road 2a St.Clement’s Hospital . This was opened in 1849 by the Board of Guardians as the City of London Union Workhouse and became the Infirmary in 1874.  The design was by Richard Tress and included central heating, a dining- hall, Siberian marble pillars, and a chapel with stained glass windows and an organ. In 1911 it was renamed the Bow Infirmary for the long-term sick  and in 1936 renamed St Clement's Hospital. It was badly damaged by Second World War bombing and some buildings including the chapel were destroyed. It reopened in 1948 and a psychiatric wing was added in 1949. The earliest buildings are these facing Bow Road standing behind a wall. There is a tow...

Great Eastern Railway line to Ilford The Great Eastern railway line running from Bethnal Green Station goes north eastwards Post to the west Globe Town Post to the east Mile End  (quarter post) Post to the east Bromley by Bow Aberavon Road This was originally Frederick Place and was developed from 1824 as a terrace Eaton Terrace by UBZWG for Kentish Homes built in 1983-5. The doorways are flanked by huge curving pedestals with balls, put there to disguise the rubbish bins Anthill Road 129 built in 1869 as the Duke of York pub, for the Smith, Garrett, & Co. brewery of Bromley-by-Bow. The pub closed in 2002 but tiled signage has been kept in conversion to housing - the best monument to that brewery that can still be seen today.  Cherrywood Close Housing built on the site J T Davies Ltd rope works. This was a subsidiary of the wire rope manufacturers, John Stephens of Bristol and Warrington, and made fibre ropes, including from coir for Fishing Vessels, Running ...

Great Eastern Railway Line to Ilford The railway to Ilford running from Bethnal Green Station goes north eastwards Post to the west Bethnal Green Post to the east Mile End Bancroft Road The road was built to access the Mile End Workhouse from Mile End Road. 238 The Carlton Arms Pu b. This dates from at least the 1850s. Devonshire Road Goods yard. This was near to Globe Road station at ground level built in 1880. It was accessed by a ramp from the main line above and it was worked by small GER locomotives.  An entrance with a sign faced onto Bancroft Road. The yard was on both sides of the line with coal drops on the south side. It closed in 1967 Jewish Burial Ground. The abandoned cemetery of long closed Maiden Lane synagogue in Covent Garden. The Maiden Lane Synagogue was the result of disputes in the 19th. This break away congregation bought its own cemetery at Globe Fields and the first burial was in 1811.  By 1884 it was in disrepair and by 1895 filled up.  ...

Great Eastern Railway from Liverpool Street to Ilford The railway running from Bethnal Green Station goes north eastwards TQ 35275 82777 This posting covers only the north west corner of the square This is the inner city but Bethnal Green still has its village green, and here it is. There is also a museum and a grand church - as well as a poshish square full of good works. There are many other churches and philanthropic organisations in this corner.  There are also railways - the Great Eastern railway runs eastwards with the first of several ghost stations here and the Central Line is also here, with memorials to the terrible wartime accident.  This is a busy area and it is where people live and work - there is a lot going on, and there is also a Bhuddist fire station. Post to the south Bethnal Green Post to the east Globe Town Post to the west Bethnal Green Bancroft Road This part of Bancroft Road was called Devonshire Street in the 19th Devonshire Street Statio...

Great Eastern Railway from Liverpool Street to Ilford The Line runs north eastwards from Bethnal Green Station TQ 35445 82160 This posting covers only the south west portion of the square This part of Bethnal Green covers part of two main roads - Cambridge Heath Road and Mile End Road. There is philanthropic housing, churches and council estates.  There was also a great deal of industry - sheet metal and rope in Cambridge Heath Road where the remains of what were often imposing head offices can still be found.  Mile End Road has its statue of Salvation Army founder Booth, a mosque and a cinema - along with the remains of one of the massive east London breweries, in this case Charringtons. In the back street gin was distilled and pickles pickled. Post to the west Three Colt Lane Post to the north Bethnal Green Bellevue Place Cottages 18th-19th brick terrace with garden paved walk from Cleveland Way., with ‘true cottage gardens’. Cambridge Heath Road This was at o...