Comments on: B1126 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/11/30/the-fogs-smogs-of-old-london/b1126/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 23 Nov 2023 10:07:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/11/30/the-fogs-smogs-of-old-london/b1126/#comment-1528775 Thu, 23 Nov 2023 10:07:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/B1126.jpg#comment-1528775 John and Mary Ann Moss were my gt.gt. Grandparents who ran The Grapes and boarding house. Unfortunately, after John died Mary Ann remarried and was ‘accidently’ shot and killed by her German husband at these premises. I recognise your surname ‘Madden’ but I come down from Larkin and Dennison.

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]]> By: Jonathan Madden https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/11/30/the-fogs-smogs-of-old-london/b1126/#comment-1132091 Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:35:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/B1126.jpg#comment-1132091 This is a very haunting photograph. It shows the west side of Wellclose Square in 1910, just before the area was about to change radicallly. My family lived in the square from around 1880 until the 1914 when they moved to Hermit Road Canning Town. My Great Aunt ran a lodging house for sailors in Graces Alley (opposite Wiltons). My Great Uncle ran a pub called The Grapes which was in North East Passage running from Cable Street into the square, and my Grandmother ran a grocers shop on Dock Street (now Ensign Street I think). This area had it’s own Courthouse and Gaol and as well to being home to dock workers and sailors there were many merchants living here, mainly from Sweden and Denmark due to its close proximity to the London Docks.

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