EAW000640 ENGLAND (1946). A cityscape over Limehouse and Mile End, Limehouse, from the south-east, 1946

Clemence Street.

Tank and chimney of Copenhagen Oil Mills on Copenhagen Place and backing onto the Limehouse Cut canal.

Church of St John's Limehouse Fields

Murdock Cottages.

Victoria Hotel, Burdett Road.

172 Rhodeswell Road in 1939. The Robinsons lived there in 1919

Baythorne street

Leopold street

Armstrong accumulator tower of octagonal shape with chimney stack. Listed building. Tower damaged in WW2 and shortened as a result. Accumulator towers were used to provide power to the cranes in the docks. Regent's Canal Dock (now Limehouse Basin) was served by collier ships that brought from the North East ports It was then offloaded into barges that delivered it to gasworks in the vicinity. Norway Wharf - at right angles to the Dock - stored timber from Scandinavia.

Royal Navy, 53 Salmon Lane, E14 7NA. 1856 to 1999. Building survives as residential - 2019.

Rose and Crown, 79 Salmon Lane, E14 7NA, 1881 to 1999. Build still standing but residential.

Previously Site of Plough public house, 13 Repton Street (pre 1874, 16 John Street), open 1848 to 1915.

Previously site of Duke of Wellington, 1 Repton St (pre 1874, 22 John Street) Open 1830 to 1922.

Ragged School Museum https://www.raggedschoolmuseum.org.uk/

Mile End

Volunteer Arms, 7 Mill Place, Commercial Road, Limehouse E14. Sandwiched between two viaducts, apparently the glasses rattled as the trains went overhead.

Salmon Lane Junction

Site of Kings Arms, 1848 to 1923. 2 John St, which became 12 Carr St. How was a pub ever squeezed on to this tiny plot and what did it look like?!

Site of the Devonshire Arms, 10 Burn Street.

Lusty’s Turtle Soup factory

The Richard Cobden PH

Original Hackney Power Station

Original Hackney Power Station

Chimney of Stepney Power Station

Bricklayers Arms PH.

Salmon's Buildings, originally Wright's Buildings.

Note: The extent of roof damage to this whole area can be measured by the replacement of 'white' roofs as opposed to the dark roofs, which would have been slate.

Southern Grove School still stands.

The Vulcan Pub. This pub featured in a scene from the movie 'The Pool of London'.

A play park with swings, roundabout, maypole and other childrens rides, Brickfield Gardens lay derelict after it suffered damage during WW2. This 'ghost town' park was an intriguing place to play as a kid in the late 1940's. Some of the battered rides still worked.

The Prince Alfred Pub.

The Albion Pub. St Pauls Way.

Vines Bakery.

Burdett Road Fire Station. Sub station C22 during WW2.

The Crystal Tavern Pub.

The East London Tabernacle, bombed and gutted by fire WW2 1944. The original building seated some 2,500 people. Rebuilt in 1954 it has seating for 500. As a kid I waded in a foot of collected rainwater inside the shell of this building and cut my bare feet on a mixture of garbage and debris. A girl older than me and with strong motherly insticts took me to her home and cleaned the wounds.

Chapel and Sunday School. Severly damaged WW2.

Leopold House, boys home. Destroyed WW2 1941

St. Lukes Church.

St. Pauls CE, or Seager Place School.

The Earl of Zetland Pub. Burdett Road.

The Salisbury Arms Pub, Burdett Road.

The Rising Sun Pub, corner of Eric Street and Portia Road.

The Odeon cinema, Mile End. OPened in 1938, demolished in 1984.

Edinburgh Castle, Rhodeswell Road. The Peoples Mission opened in 1873 and demolished some time in the 1960's.

The People's Palace

St. Paul's House in Timothy Road (formerly St. Dunstan's Road). On the left (north) side was a small Public House all the locals knew as Shackladys. I think its actual name was The St. Dunstan's Arms.

Central Foundation Girls' School 07/05/2014

Mile End Road 07/05/2014

Roman Catholic Church of The Guardian Angels 07/05/2014

Queen Mary University of London 07/05/2014

37 ST ANNS RD

Brenton st

St. Anne's Church, Limehouse, Commercial Road, 30/09/2014

Commercial Road, 30/09/2014

Limehouse Town Hall, 30/09/2014

The Limehouse Cut, 30/09/2014

Commercial Road, 30/09/2014

Commercial Road Lock, Regent's Canal, 30/09/2014

Limehouse Basin, 30/09/2014

Grove Road/ Site of first V1 flying bomb to hit London

Antill Road showing V1 damage

Rhodeswell Road. This image was taken approximately on the spot where I place the pin. The block of flats survived the war and are still occupied. This was atken 18th Nov 2012

GAS WORKS

REGENTS CANAL

BURDETT RD

THE AUNT SALLY PUB

ST.ANNS RD CHANGED TO MIDLOTHIAN RD

Regents Canal - Sewer Ventilation Stack

The Mission

The Prince Regent Pub

This entire block now occupied by Rope and Marine Services Limited, E14 7LR. Note: This building is all that remains of the original site (as shown in 1946).

Site of the former Burdett Road railway station. (Closed on the 21st April 1941 and never re-opened).

Saint Paul's, Bow Common