Comments on: fig 14 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/12/30/the-lost-squares-of-stepney/fig-14-2/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:47:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: deborah parsons https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/12/30/the-lost-squares-of-stepney/fig-14-2/#comment-1941952 Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:47:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/fig-141.jpg#comment-1941952 My Grandmother was called Ada Clark and her family lived at 47 Carr street when she was born in 1904. Her dad was james and her mum was elizabeth, and she had lots of siblings, among them Avis and Jane(they had 17 children but unfortunately only 4 appear to have survived for any length of time). Her mum was a cat’s meat seller, so would probably have been known to lots of people (well, those who had cats anyway)!

]]> By: Cheri Honey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/12/30/the-lost-squares-of-stepney/fig-14-2/#comment-1885107 Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:10:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/fig-141.jpg#comment-1885107 Message for Brooke Parrish-Carr

Your grandad is our cousin. My brother Tony worked with
Him as well would love to know how Michael is we lost touch quite a few years ago

07914 241157 my mobile Brooke

]]> By: Peter Dowsett https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/12/30/the-lost-squares-of-stepney/fig-14-2/#comment-1837000 Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:12:58 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/fig-141.jpg#comment-1837000 Hi,

Am related to Ann and Sarah dowsett
And the beer family.
My grandfather was one of the 15 from Carr st
As was my father Peter Robert dowsett.

There seems to be a link from Southend to the east end.

dowsetpeter66@gmail.com

Regards.

]]> By: Emily BURGOYNE https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/12/30/the-lost-squares-of-stepney/fig-14-2/#comment-1699760 Sun, 09 Mar 2025 20:09:01 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/fig-141.jpg#comment-1699760 Hi, does anyone know anything about the Prior family who lived at Stoneybridge Wharf in Carr Street in the late 19th/early 20th centuries?

]]> By: Brooke Parrish-Carr https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/12/30/the-lost-squares-of-stepney/fig-14-2/#comment-1698603 Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:47:36 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/fig-141.jpg#comment-1698603 Hello. My grandads name is Michael Charles Carr (Terry and Dennis brother). My grandad had 4 children one which sadly passed a few years ago & 4 grandchildren & 1 great grandchild

I am currently filling out a memory journal with him about his lifetime. We have been searching the family name for a while and come across this site. It’s been lovely reading all the comments!

If anyone has any information or stories to tell please about their past I would be so greatful as we are looking at our family tree.

]]> By: Liz Ferguson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/12/30/the-lost-squares-of-stepney/fig-14-2/#comment-1680536 Sun, 12 Jan 2025 12:28:52 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/fig-141.jpg#comment-1680536 It’s been interesting to read the above comments. I am doing research on my war memorial in a village outside Bristol. This has included learning about the Homefront. I am particularly interested in Elizabeth Sweetapple Fowles (born in Carr Street Nov 2nd 1865). She lived at Number 16 Carr St with father Charles James Fowles (a merchant mariner) and mother Emma (nee Tolfree). I haven’t seen any mentions of the Fowles family here… but it was a long time ago and the family moved to Bristol.
Elizabeth was an amazing woman she had various handicaps including deafness & poor vision? but she knitted socks and mittens for the troops in WW1 including those in Galipolli. I have endeavoured to get a new road named after her on a new development (Sweetapple Road)

If anyone can give me any information about the family or indeed some insight into what this road and area may have been like around 1865 I would be so very grateful.

Liz “The Remember Me Project”

]]> By: EILEEN Worrow https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/12/30/the-lost-squares-of-stepney/fig-14-2/#comment-1589799 Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:02:20 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/fig-141.jpg#comment-1589799 Hi, my husband, Jim Worrow, lived in the maisonette in Carr Street in the 60s and 70s. They were moved there from the old houses in King John Street. He is 77 now, and we both knew Bobby Ramsey too. I was interested when I saw the name Herbert mentioned, because Jim’s great great grandad, William Worrow was married to a Sarah Herbert, born in 1828.Her mum and dad were George and Jane Herbert. Would be good to know if there is a connection because the Worrow were also a well known old East End family

]]> By: Cheri Birch- Honey/ family Carr/Slough from Carr Strret https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/12/30/the-lost-squares-of-stepney/fig-14-2/#comment-1563434 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 07:27:42 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/fig-141.jpg#comment-1563434 Hello Paula .
Your dad was my cousin, your grandad known as uncle Alf, and your nan Cissy, Mary Ann Carr was my Nan, , my Nan had Mary, Eileen. Jimmy and Harry known as the Sloughs. Mary married name was Brand married to Mark, and they had a son Danny, Eileen my Mum had Tony and me married name Honey, your Dad had two brothers Micheal and Terry, my brother Tony was close to Michael but they lost touch quite a few years ago now. It has been lovely reading everyone’s comments certainly remember all these names that have been mentioned. And yes can remember them singing about Donkey Row after a few drinks in the pub. Such happy days .sadly my mum mary Harry and Jimmy no longer with us .

]]> By: Charlie Drinkwater https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/12/30/the-lost-squares-of-stepney/fig-14-2/#comment-1518304 Sat, 12 Aug 2023 17:22:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/fig-141.jpg#comment-1518304 Hi, my name is Charlie Drinkwater, does anyone remember the Kings Arms PH in carr st ? Apparently my grand parents had this pub during the Blitz and were killed in the pub when it was bombed. Does anyone remember anything about this or remember the Drinkwater’s ?
Thanks

]]> By: James Foster https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/12/30/the-lost-squares-of-stepney/fig-14-2/#comment-1503777 Fri, 10 Mar 2023 18:16:50 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/fig-141.jpg#comment-1503777 Just stumbled across theses posts as I was looking for references to “Donkey Row”. My mother was born there in 1915. So, I would like to throw a new name into the mix: The Herberts. I don’t know which number they lived at but there would have been about 7 children in total. My mother was Ellen, she had a younger sister called Doris and a younger brother Richard (known as Dick) My Grandfather worked with the horses at a local brewery. My Grandmother took in laundry and cooked meals for the dockworkers, which my mother would deliver in a pram! It is to my shame that I cannot recall the names of her elder siblings. I do know that one of her elder brothers was lost in Russia at the end of the First World War during the fighting of the revolution there.
The family were evicted from their property following the death of my Grandfather. He was the named tennant and there was no compassion in those days I guess. My mother left London for the south east in the 1950’s, but she visited her roots sometime in the 1970’s and was really disappointed to find it was all gone and replaced with modern buildings. If anybody has any more info about my family, I would love to hear it.

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