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Thanks for this! I knew some of this (in part thanks to the remarkable Bill Fishman who included it on his East End tours) but certainly not all.
Peter Cameron | Homepage | 24.01.22 - 8:09 a.m. | #
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A temperance campaigner who died at the age of 27 - no good deed goes unpunished.
Ventilation shaft looks to be inspired by the Bird's Nest Stadium.
Still Anon | 24.01.22 - 8:34 a.m. | #
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"DAREN Bread - Best for Health painted across its facade, although the sign can't be original"
Huh? DAREN Bread was a competitor of Hovis.
dg writes: the Daren brand shifted to Ranks Hovis McDougall after a bakery takeover in 1962, and was soon phased out in favour of the better known Hovis.
Mike D | 24.01.22 - 8:40 a.m. | #
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That clock tower green has made me quite angry. A nice piece of city open land fenced off. If you want to protect the clock, put the fences closer to it, but allow a little bit of grass for people to sit on.
Scott | Homepage | 24.01.22 - 8:41 a.m. | #
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While there may have been Hebridean sheep at the city farm, those two white ones in the picture look more like Southdowns. Hebrideans have big curly horns and are often (what is known in sheep circles) as 'coloured'.
dg writes: The two white sheep are Ryelands. The 'coloured' sheep with the curly horns behind them is a Soay from the Outer Hebrides.
Blue Witch | Homepage | 24.01.22 - 9:35 a.m. | #
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No need for the anger, Scott. Look again at the second photo. Stepney Green gardens runs for at least half the length of Stepney Green and has plenty of seating.
Just cross the road from the clocktower, take a seat and enjoy the view of it.
I used to live on Stepney Green.
Dave | 24.01.22 - 10:24 a.m. | #
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Looking up to see what B road I live on (which according to the local police should be an A road by the amount of traffic and in particular the number of massive lorries that use it) I was firstly surprised to find it is unclassified and secondly to find there are few A roads nearby and only 2 B roads, way out near Ruislip Woods! I guess they lost interest by the time they got way out here!
But Ruislip Woods is where I spotted an RN designation! Does anyone know what that stands for? Ruislip Network perhaps?
According to Open Street Map there are RN1-7 roads in and around Ruislip. Maybe it's something peculiar to Hillingdon as RN7 (Bridle Road) seems to end at the Harrow boundary where it becomes Eastcote Road - which is not the same Eastcote Road which is the B466, though the RN7 does appear to be a connector between them!
Cornish Cockney | 24.01.22 - 10:38 a.m. | #
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Further googling suggests RN could stand for Ruislip to Northwood, which makes more sense.
Cornish Cockney | 24.01.22 - 10:40 a.m. | #
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Looks like the fine settes of Garden St are another casualty of Crossrail.
scrumpy | 24.01.22 - 10:58 a.m. | #
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On Street View, just as you enter Stepney Green off Mile End Road, there is a strange looking post on the near side (just behind the 20 mph sign and right next to the 'speed bump').
Does anyone know what it is please?
John Simmons | 24.01.22 - 12:31 p.m. | #
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Almost certainly a sewer vent.
Howard | 24.01.22 - 12:44 p.m. | #
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What a fascinating road. Somewhat surprised at the size and imposing nature of that Crossrail ventilation shaft/access point, which is massive.
Mikey C | 24.01.22 - 1:42 p.m. | #
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I always wondered what that thing was. A bit of searching turns up an identical object associated with the public loos in front of Christ Church Spitalfields. The OS 25 inch 1892-1914 map records "Lav" at the location of our mystery thing. So.. it must be for allowing fresh air in. Which means.. are there spooky disused underground Victorian loos still surviving down there?
jpmac | 24.01.22 - 2:08 p.m. | #
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Strange that the entrance to White Horse Road has a 'No Vehicles' sign, yet from the road markings, cycles are clearly invited to pass through.
ActonMan | 24.01.22 - 7:53 p.m. | #
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Former bakery
In the mid-sixties, when I was in secondary education, I had a weekend job at Alan Lewis's bakery on the ground floor of Lorne House, just opposite the junction of Ben Jonson Road and Harford Street (on the B140). These premises had the main bakehouse for the business, that is, all the bread was baked there. He had two other shops, somewhat shabby, one on the corner of White Horse Lane (shop 2) and the other the shop featured here (shop 3). Although I mostly worked at the main premises, I was sometimes stationed by myself for the day at one of the other shops.
Shops 2 and 3 were supplied with bread from the main shop, and all three shops with cakes and pastries baked at shop 3.
Lewis's sliced and wrapped bread was branded "Lewis's Lazyloaf". He sold it wholesale to local grocery outlets. He bought in beigels from somewhere else (although the Lewis family was Jewish; maybe it was because he couldn't find a baker who could make beigels).
I worked from 5 am to 6 pm on Saturday (with a one-hour break) and 5 am to 1 pm on Sunday. I took home (it was cash in hand) four pounds ten shillings (£4.50), an hourly rate of four shillings and sixpence (22.5p).
I notice on Open Street Map that there is still a bakery there at Ben Jonson Road (Johnny Walls Bakery). Ben Jonson Road was a busy and varied local shopping street (no stalls, but a good variety of retail: grocer, greengrocer, pubs, newsagent, barber, florist, household goods, off licence (my dad ran that)).
Gripper | 26.01.22 - 1:16 a.m. | #
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