EAW021448 ENGLAND (1949). Leman Street and environs, Whitechapel, 1949

Ellen Street

Fairclough Street

Settles Street/Greenfield Road Nissen huts

Originally a Sugar Refinery and later a wine warehouse and vaults. Basement used as an air raid shelter during the blitz.

Signal Cabin suspended over rail line

Tower House one of the Rowton Houses and sister establishment to Arlington House, Camden Town the latter of which was referred to in a song of the same name by the British Ska band Madness.

Whitechapel Fire Station - London Fire Brigade

Settles Street Labour Exchange and later Job Centre

Johnnie Walker Bonded Warehouse - now occupied by HULT Unversity

The Eastern Dispensary

Wartime emergency water supply - EWS

Former HQ of the Cooperative Wholesale Society - CWS at 99 Leman Street.

Former court house, then Social Security Office and now Cafe Spice Namaste on Prescot Street.

Tower Hill School, Chamber Street - closed 1969. School moved, and renamed English Martyrs RC Primary School on new site on St Mark Street from September 1969. Officially opened Jun 1970.

East Tenter Street

St. Mark Street

Prescot Street

North Tenter Street

Newnham Street

West Tenter Street

Scarborough Street

The Scarborough (Public House)

This red-brick hydraulic accumulator tower was still standing in 1998 and had, by that time, become a listed structure. In spite of it being "listed", it was demolished as the site was required for redevelopment.

City Goods Depot (Mid. Rly.). Opened: 1st October 1862, Closed:1st July 1949

Royal Mint Street

Ruined Remains of Goodmans Yard Goods Depot (L&BR). Opened: 1st February 1861, Closed: 1st April 1951.

Roman Catholic Church of the English Martyrs

Leads to East Smithfield, London Docks Goods Depot (GER) Opened: 17th June 1864 Closed: 1st September 1966

Haydon Square Goods Depot (LNWR). Opened: February 1853 Closed: 2nd July 1962

Commercial Road Goods Depot (LTSR). Opened: 17th April 1886 Closed: 3rd July 1967

Gardiner's Department Store

Saint Mary Matfelon Church which was destroyed during The Blitz in 1940. The ruins were finally demolished in 1952 and the site of the church was known as "St Mary's Park" until it was renamed "Altab Ali Park" in 1998. The outline of the footprint of the church is all that remains of it.

Leman Street station, closed on 7th July 1941.

Halal Restaurant, St. Mark's Street (East London's oldest Indian restaurant, established 1939)

Marine Broker pub, Leman Street, now demolished

Aldgate Bus Station, 17/02/2015

Leman Street looking north, 17/02/2015

The Pump House, Hooper Street, 17/02/2015

Mansell Street

Ibex House, Minories, built 1937