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Correction: "by no less a figure than Postmaster General Clement Attlee".
Roger Depledge | 14.03.25 - 7:31 a.m. | #
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Whoever it was that made the decision to make Tower Hamlets recycling bins bright purple many (full) moons ago has put quite a blight on the borough. I refuse (excuse the pun) to have one, opting to use the clear pink sacks instead.
JP | 14.03.25 - 7:45 a.m. | #
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You would need some wealth to live at Tredegar Square, but when meeting your social and wealth equals, would their faces fall when you told them where you lived?
Andrew Cee | Homepage | 14.03.25 - 7:47 a.m. | #
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Houses rather cheaper than they'd be in Belgravia, presumably..
Adrian | 14.03.25 - 7:52 a.m. | #
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The Morgan Arms was the Evening Standard (remember them?) pub of the year back in 2012.
Lorenzo | 14.03.25 - 8:09 a.m. | #
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The four blocks were originally identical in design until the northern one was fully reclad in stucco later. The centre house doubled as Belgravia in the 2006 BBC series ‘The Line of Beauty’. The gardens themselves were host to air raid shelters during ww2
Kim | 14.03.25 - 10:03 a.m. | #
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I always thought it was a nice bit of trivia that the Lord Tredegar and the Morgan Arms are two nearby pubs with different names, but both named after the same person.
James Matcham | 14.03.25 - 11:23 a.m. | #
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Excellent post as ever.
An (In)famous resident of Tredegar Square was none other than the murderer Henry Wainwright. He lived at Number 40. He murdered his Mistress Harriet Lane. She was a chorus girl at the Pavillion theatre which was next door to Wainwright’s brush and cleaning supplies shop on the Whitechapel Road.. Bizzarely, just before he was arrested, he had just won a cleaning contract from the Metropolitan Police! He was hanged in 1875.
Nigel | 14.03.25 - 12:14 p.m. | #
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A nice survivor.
Cornish Cockney | 14.03.25 - 12:42 p.m. | #
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Re the date that Tredegar Square was built, this 1830 map shows the square but it's named as Morgan Square.
Map reader | 14.03.25 - 1:39 p.m. | #
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When was Charles Morgan raised to the Peerage? The Morgan Arms (l’m in it right now!) appears to be on the 1830 map but Lichfield Road, where the Lord Tredegar pub is, has yet to be built.
No doubt the original 1830 railings were wrought iron, and thus useless for recycling, so probably sat in the council’s salvage yard until 1945 and then taken down the Thames and dumped on the North Sea.
Kim | 14.03.25 - 8:35 p.m. | #
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According to Wikipedia the first Lord Tredegar was Sir Charles's son, with the peerage being created in 1859.
Betterbee | 15.03.25 - 7:39 a.m. | #
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Ex-neighbours of mine were able to move to Tredegar Square under a “key worker” accommodation scheme, so not all the houses are million-pound mansions, thankfully.
Labourer | 15.03.25 - 8:26 p.m. | #
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