Exterior view of an arched gateway on Wentworth Street built in 1886 commemorating buildings on the now demolished Flower and Dean Street site, from the south

Date:
2 Jun 1993
Location:
Flower And Dean Walk Commemorative Gateway, Wentworth Street, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, Greater London Authority
Reference:
AA93/05386
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

The gateway has the inscription "Erected by the Four Per Cent Industrial Dwellings Company Ltd, 1886". The company was set up by a group of Jewish philanthropists who hoped to relieve the overcrowding in homes and clear the slums in the Jewish East End of London.

Content

This is part of the Job: 2K/21381 Spitalfields Rapid Survey - Flower and Dean Walk; within the Volume: BF092737 Flower and Dean Walk, Spitalfields, Stepney; within the Series: RCH01/150 Spitalfields Rapid Survey; within the Collection: RCH01 Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME) Archive

Rights

© Crown Copyright. Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Davies, James O

Keywords

Victorian Arch