EAW000636 ENGLAND (1946). A cityscape over Shadwell and Stepney, Shadwell, from the south-east, 1946

Brodlove Lane

The Highway

Rose & Crown, 51 Aylward Street (formally Charles street), Mile End E1. Like much here long gone.

The Star Public House. Long gone, along with most of these streets.

George Tavern

Commercial Road Great Synagogue. Closed in 1968 and amalgamated with East London Central Synagogue (Nelson Street).

The Victory public House (Charrington's). 226 Commercial Road on the corner of Watney Street.

Schoolhouse Lane

Barnardo House

King's Arms Public House

John Benn House

Rotherhithe Tunnel ventilation shaft

Collingwood Street School

St Thomas's Church

Jamaica/Exmouth Streets/Stepney Way prefabs (Seco Huts)

Gosling House

Arbour Square. A trolleybus turning circle was provided here for curtailing late running westbound trolleybuses to get them back on schedule. No trolleybuses were scheduled to turn here but due to increasing congestion along the Commercial Road in later years it was well used. The gradual decline of the London Docks had quite an affect on the trolleybus services along the Commercial Road. 1n 1950 there were 81 trolleybuses an hour each way, but by the end of the decade they had dropped by 20 to 61 each way an hour. The three routes which ran along the commercial Road - 665 Bloomsbury, and 567 Smithfield to Barking, and 569 Aldgate to Silvertown Station ran for the last time on 10th November 1959 replaced by the first Routemasters to run in London.

WW2 Communal Surface Blast Shelter

Cowley Gardens

Nicholas Gibson Primary School

Peabody Estate New buildings

East End Maternity Hospital, Commercial Road, 30/09/2014

Marion Richardson Primary School, 30/09/2014

Around 515 Commercial Road, 30/09/2014

arbour square police station

raines school

albert gardens

free trade wharf

Saint Mary's Cable Street

Rotherhithe Tunnel Ventilation Shaft without its roof (following WW2 bomb damage).

Shadwell Railway Station

The remains of Cowley Gardens -- no longer in existence. Note: This road (and the church in the background) were featured in the 1962 film "Sparrows Can't Sing".

St Mary's and St Michael's Church