The weatherboarded street frontages of wooden houses and shops on the north side of Mile End Road, this view showing numbers 169 to 177, with the 'Black Boy' public house at number 169 to the left. This view is as seen from Beaumont Street, opposite.

Date:: 1888 - 1900

Location:: 169-177 Mile End Road, Mile End, Tower Hamlets, Greater London Authority

Reference:: OP18685

Type:: Photograph (Platinum Print)

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Description

The buildings were on the site of what later became Stepney Green Station. Typed notes on the reverse of the print, as well as the type of print, indicate that this photograph was taken by the amateur photographer L F Gowing.

Archival History

This photograph was withdrawn from the open Red Box Collection for conservation reasons during the 2011-1 Red Box Project.

Content

This is part of the Series: RBO01/81 Early Photographic Print Collection: Tower Hamlets; within the Collection: RBO01 Early Photographic Print Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Gowing, Lionel Francis