EPW036250 ENGLAND. The D-LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin in flight, Shoreditch, 1931. This image has been produced from a damaged negative.

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Title [EPW036250] The D-LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin in flight, Shoreditch, 1931. This image has been produced from a damaged negative.
Reference EPW036250
Date
Link
Place name SHOREDITCH
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 533368, 182212
Longitude / Latitude -0.0774080443411, 51.522575347975
National Grid Reference TQ334822

Pins

Saint Botolph without Bishopgate

Alan McFaden
Friday 16th of August 2013 09:34:35 AM
Spitalfields Market

Alan McFaden
Friday 16th of August 2013 09:31:42 AM
Spitalfields Market Building

Alan McFaden
Friday 16th of August 2013 09:30:53 AM
Christ Church Spitalfields

Alan McFaden
Friday 16th of August 2013 09:30:05 AM

Alan McFaden
Friday 16th of August 2013 09:29:01 AM
Spitalfields Market, extended to the west in 1928 by the Market Annexe. The Annexe was by the same architect as the adjacent 1929 London Fruit Exchange, Sydney Perks. He was the Architect to the City. The City Corporation had acquired this ancient market in Tower Hamlets in 1920 and expanded it with the Annexe and the Exchange. In clearing the site for the building of the Annexe, the old (17th C) "The Gun" Public House, a market pub, was also demolished. It was relocated to the north-west corner of the block where the Exchange was built. The wholesale fruit trade was moved out by the Corporation in 1991 and the 1928 Spitalfields Market Annexe was demolished in 2003. The front Victorian Market building, dating from around 1893 and known as 'Old Spitalfields Market', remains standing on the eastern edge, facing Commercial Street, as does the 1929 London Fruit (and later Wool) Exchange. A Flower Market, built in 1935 was also later demolished, leaving just two market buildings today at what was once the largest fruit, vegetable and flower market in the world, Spitalfields Market: the London Fruit Exchange and 'Old Spitalfields Market'. Now, however, there is a plan to demolish the London Fruit (and later Wool) Exchange - but the organisation 'SAVE Britain's Heritage' have applied for listing for this second-to-last surviving Spitalfields Market building. The decision now lies with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Stepney
Wednesday 22nd of May 2013 03:04:10 PM
The London Fruit Exchange (1929) of Spitalfields Market. During World War Two, the Exchange's basement became an air raid shelter and was London's largest underground public shelter, taking up to 14,000 people a night. This "township under the ground" became famous throughout the world and was written about in books, in the national and international press and was photographed by Bert Hardy of Picture Post. It was visited by Wendell Willkie, on a fact finding mission for President Roosevelt, also by Mrs Churchill and many others. It became known as 'Mickey's Shelter' after its legendary local organiser, Mickey Davis. In 1963 the wool brokers were moved into the building and it became the London Fruit and Wool Exchange, with the offices and auction rooms being used for the sales of wool and fruit. The City Corporation, who had acquired control of Spitalfields Market in Tower Hamlets in 1920, moved out the wholesale fruit trade in 1991. Spitalfields Market was then redeveloped in 2003, with most of its buildings demolished for offices - leaving just the 1929 Exchange and 'Old Spitalfields Market' (1889). Now the Exchange is proposed to be demolished and Maria Miller, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport is looking at an application from the organisation 'SAVE Britain's Heritage' to list Spitalfields' London Fruit and Wool Exchange and with it 'Mickey's Shelter'.

Stepney
Wednesday 22nd of May 2013 02:26:48 PM

Class31
Wednesday 26th of December 2012 11:40:07 PM
Currently the 'All Saints' clothing store , corner Hanbury St and Commercial St, just by Hawksmoor's Christ Church on Fournier St, Spitalfields....which suggests it is London

longshot
Saturday 15th of December 2012 04:01:50 PM
Shoreditch High Street

Class31
Friday 14th of December 2012 09:59:20 PM

Class31
Friday 14th of December 2012 09:58:07 PM
West Reservoir

Class31
Friday 14th of December 2012 09:53:22 PM
East Reservoir

Class31
Friday 14th of December 2012 09:52:58 PM
Kingsland Road A10

Class31
Friday 14th of December 2012 09:50:21 PM
St. Botolph without, Bishopsgate

Class31
Friday 14th of December 2012 09:48:06 PM
Commercial Street

Class31
Friday 14th of December 2012 09:39:05 PM
Christ Church, Spitalfields designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor

Class31
Friday 14th of December 2012 09:38:03 PM

User Comment Contributions

St. Botolph Without, Bishopsgate

Class31
Thursday 15th of August 2013 09:28:24 PM
Brick Lane at the junction with Bacon Street looking north 14/08/2013.

Class31
Thursday 15th of August 2013 09:25:37 PM
I enjoyed my hot salt beef bagel with mustard from the 24/7 bagel shop at the north end of Brick Lane when I called yesterday 14/08/2013.

Class31
Thursday 15th of August 2013 09:22:08 PM
View of London looking north from The City with centre of shot approximately High Street, Shoreditch.

Class31
Wednesday 2nd of January 2013 02:51:57 PM
Thanks for taking a look at this one everyone - it's another of these hazy, long-distance London shots of the Graf Z which is good to have a more precise location for. We'll update the catalogue and post the details here in due course.



Yours, Katy

Britain from Above Cataloguing Team Leader

Katy Whitaker
Wednesday 2nd of January 2013 02:51:57 PM
Unable to show the location in the Image Details box.

Class31
Friday 14th of December 2012 10:25:29 PM
Eureka

Class31
Friday 14th of December 2012 09:36:47 PM
I believe this to be a shot of Liverpool not London! The dark roofed building under the tail of the airship and the location of the road running diagonally southeast (if we take north as the top of the picture), would suggest that the church with the spire (bottom right of picture) is that of St Luke's (which was bombed in WW2 - the shell of this church remains). To the extreme left of the picture is (I think) the Royal Liver building.



The profile of the train shed is not like any in central London and none have the same street configuration running diagonally away from it to a church (with or without a spire). The only candidates (on roof profile) would be 1) Victoria, but the street layout is wrong, or 2) Waterloo, but again the street profile is wrong and the station building is far too small (even in 1930 it was huge).



Also the skyline is wrong for a shot over London, none of the major landmarks are visible in this shot to place it as being over London.

Ian
Friday 14th of December 2012 10:34:12 AM