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Really enjoying this adventure. Fascinating how Crossrail is having to weave between old and new, impressive engineering.

Kevin | 08.01.16 - 8:02 a.m. | #

The East End Thrift Store is not in Artillery Passage - this is near Liverpool Street Station. It is in Assembly Passage and you will then be able to walk to Rinkoff's Bakery to try a cronut!

dg writes: Passage now updated in the passage, thanks.

Sara | 08.01.16 - 8:23 a.m. | #

The temporary entrance to Whitechapel Station will have a small advantage to those travelling North-South who walk between the Overground at Whitechapel and the Overground at Bethnal Green (already a shorter distance than Shoreditch High Street - Liverpool St). The entrance in Durward St should shorten it even further.

RayL | 08.01.16 - 8:36 a.m. | #

I lost you a bit at Garden Street. Google maps seems to have it as St Johns Street, or is Garden Street the Southern end which they don't show ? I can see the big work site on the satellite view but can't see any hole in the ground.

kev | 08.01.16 - 9:30 a.m. | #

OK, I found Garden Street by scrolling streetview back to 2008. What a contrast ! Let's hope they put it back how it was, including cobbles, railings and trees. What was behind the gate in King John Street, was it part of the city farm ?

kev | 08.01.16 - 9:49 a.m. | #

@RayL The Durward St bridge is closed until 2018. So the walk will be longer until then, as you'll need to use Whitechapel Rd. Once the new station opens, it will be shorter as there will be a new entrance on Durward St.

Martin E1 | 08.01.16 - 11:19 a.m. | #

The newest plans for the proposed Hertsmere House adjacent to West India Dock at Canary Wharf look superb,and a major landmark.There will be some affordable housing in it according to the consultation papers.

Tp | 08.01.16 - 1:20 p.m. | #

Like kev, I hope Garden Street is reinstated. This is how the area was mapped in the late 1940s - not much different to how it was when I was in King John Street in the early 1960s

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18&lat=51.5176&lon=-0.0447&layers=173

There was a pub on the corner of Stepney Way and the High Street that was destroyed during WW2. Anyone know what it was called? dg's photo of the City Farm shows the exact spot.

Richard k | 08.01.16 - 8:48 p.m. | #

@Martin E1. DG says that from next weekend a new temporary entrance will open round the back of Whitechapel Station. The link is to a picture of Durward St. Are you saying that access to Durward St will be only from the western end? Bother.

RayL | 08.01.16 - 9:17 p.m. | #

@kev Garden Street was probably the narrowest road in Tower Hamlets. Fine old cobbles that Xrail have dug up. They also found a lot of old historical stuff immediately east of the road, and looking at the old map now I understand why. Lets hope they replace it as solid as the first (Victorian?) reoadbuilders.

scrumpy | 08.01.16 - 11:19 p.m. | #

PS Anybody know who Ben Johnson Road near Garden Street was named after. It has had that name for an awful long time.

dg quotes: "Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637) was an English dramatist and poet, whose classical learning and gift for satire made him one of the most significant figures of English literature."

scrumpy | 08.01.16 - 11:26 p.m. | #

As a former Whitechapel-dweller I'm so pleased to see that Rinkoff's is still there and seems to have expanded and gentrified. Best bagels in London.

Dan | 09.01.16 - 8:14 a.m. | #

@RayL Yes from the West via Court Street and Court Street Bridge from Whitechapel Road. The construction works are scheduled to complete on the 17th. Hence, I presume, the 18th as an opening date. Although the opening of the temporary ticket office is already at least 3 months late.

Martin E1 | 09.01.16 - 12:46 p.m. | #











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