EAW048557 ENGLAND (1953). A cityscape over Shoreditch and Bethnal Green, Hoxton, 1953

Forston Street

Shaftesbury Street

Napier Grove

Wenlock Road

Shepherdess Walk

oriiginal crosby head public house,corner of old street and pitfield street n.1

Regents Canal

Queensbridge Road

St Saviour's Church, corner of Northport Street and Penn Street

St Augustine's Church. Now 291 Gallery, Yorkton Street EC2

Moye Street

Dove Row

Chiswell Street

Bunhill Row

London Apprentice bar, Old Street.

Caliban Tower, Purcell Street is here now.

Mitchell Street Seco Huts

Whiston Road

Haggerston Baths

Boston Street. Now part of Haggerston Park.

St Matthew's Church Bethnal Green

Brick Lane

St Michael & All Angel’s, Shoreditch.

Boundary Estate

The Tea Building

Bishopsgate Goods Station

The Broadway market

St Paul's Church demolished around 1970

Ipswich Road

Marlborough Avenue

Pownall Road

The Sisters Public House

Parmiters School, Approach Road, Bethnal Green.

Bethnal Green Station

St Clement's. It was consecrated as St Barnabas, King Square on 12 June 1826.united with St Clements in 1952.

Kings Square

The London Chest Hospital. Closed in 2015

St John Bethnal Green

Shoreditch Town Hall

Geffrye Museum, Kingsland Road

St Chad Haggerston, Dunloe Street

Scawfell Street School. Demolished in the 1960's and replaced with Haggerston Girls school designed by architect Ernö Goldfinger.

Randal Cremer School

All Saints, Haggerston

Laburnham Street School

Queensbridge Court, Queensbridge Road, in the process of being built

Shoreditch Station (closed in 1940) http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/s/shoreditch/index.shtml

Broad Street Station (redeveloped post war)

Broad Street railway line

North London Line

Hackney Downs station

St John's Church

Hackney Town Hall

St Joseph's Hospice

Well Street Common

St John of Jerusalem

King Edward's Road (alignment now lost due to redevelopment)

St John the Baptist. The old School building still stands, but the Church had to be pulled down due to V2 rocket on opposite corner (the bank building on the corner lost 2 upper floors). The present day Presbytery seems to have been completed.

Victoria Park

London Fields

Old Blue Last PH, Great Eastern Street 07/05/2014

Whitmore Primary School (still there), Was it called that in 1953?

Branch Place

(Side turning) Avebury Street

(Side turning) Imber Street, formerly Wickham Street

Wimbourne Street

Mintern Street

Rushton Street

Clift Street

Salisbury Street. (Later to be excavated on the "Time Team" TV programme). "The main trench occupied the site of what was formerly 31 – 34 Dorchester Street, with smaller trenches corresponding to 17 – 18 Dorchester Street and 18a SALISBURY STREET; the latter a known impact point of a V2 rocket".

Dorchester Street. (Later to be excavated on the "Time Team" TV programme). "The main trench occupied the site of what was formerly 31 – 34 Dorchester Street, with smaller trenches corresponding to 17 – 18 Dorchester Street".

Poole Street

Eagle Wharf Road

Finsbury Square

Bunhill Fields Burial Ground

New Artillery Ground

St Monica's RC Church, Hoxton Square

Bethnal Green Road

Great Eastern Street. Tube Trains in the sky!

City Road 07/05/2014

City Road/Leonard Street, 07/07/2014

Finsbury Barracks, City Road, 07/07/2014

Wesley's Chapel, City Road, 07/07/2014

Central Foundation Boys School, Cowper Street

This site was a gas works during the war with direct access to regents canal. After the WW2 it became unused after being hit by a V2 rocket and during the 1950's and 1960's it was developed into Haggerston park.

St Leonard`s Church.

Nutall Street I used to live in Stringer House, Nutall Street 1948 till about Easter time 49 when we moved to Romfor.

Columbia Market (now Old Market Sq)

St Leonard's Hospital

This area demolished early 1960s for slum clearance and Crondall Court built 1964/5

Gainsborough Studios part of The Rank Organisation

Lions Boys Club here now

Pitfield Street,Hoxton.Shops demolished 1969, including Alf Watts the Barber & Lil Lotten's corner shop.After demolition a tower crane was put up during building of the tower block and nearly collapsed causing the area to be evacuated

Salvation Army building in New North Road

Prefabs built on bomb sites

This area suffered heavy Bomb damage and was latter cleared and Shoreditch Park was laid out here.

St John the Baptist New North Road

Hoxton Street market

Kingsland Road

Regents Canal

St. Lukes Church, Old Street

City Road

Old Street, (Hoxton area)

Hackney Road

Tuilerie Street, now Hackney City Farm