Comments on: In Old Stepney https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/12/15/in-old-stepney/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:11:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: john mcnamara https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/12/15/in-old-stepney/#comment-2017888 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:11:10 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=103959#comment-2017888 Does anyone remember their parents talking about Bonner the undertaker who had his premises off Arbour square? My dad and his brother and three sisters lived off the square.

During the war my dad remembers being asleep upstairs and waking to find he was luckily alive but trapped because the roof had come down through part of the ceiling due to bombs dropping and destroying houses in the row where he lived.

]]> By: John Lee https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/12/15/in-old-stepney/#comment-1650259 Tue, 19 Nov 2024 15:22:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=103959#comment-1650259 I have a picture of the Manor Dairy run by John Evans during the second world war. It was at 37 Aylward Street.

]]> By: Jeff https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/12/15/in-old-stepney/#comment-1469395 Wed, 29 Jun 2022 01:11:11 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=103959#comment-1469395 Sorry to add to my previous comment, the greengrocers was Montys.
Martin Chappel owned the Tower diy next to head st where G.S.Fish used to do business.
Martin had a nickname GB, have to let you guess there, his brother Dave was a great likeable character, good days, great memories .
There was a beautiful woman Esther lived in Senrab st, she looked good even when the weather was grey, and is forever a worthy decent person to cherish, God bless her.

]]> By: Jeff Insole. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/12/15/in-old-stepney/#comment-1469393 Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:47:55 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=103959#comment-1469393 In general cant remember a dairy in aylward st, although remeber horse following the milkman in the fifties, Miiillk, he would yodel.
There was a dairy next Stepney way and jubilee st.
Des O’Connor lived in aylward and side of the exmouth arms, (hollands) that say that’s why Des went to Butlin’s to carve a career in the recording Industry.
Remember, Buckles’s, Rolls, Newman’s, in Arbor sq, Dr Lottie Weirhmann, the best GP ever, Month’s the green grocer, Jays wireless shop, Dicky Moore’s Pub it’s never ends, God bless all, everyone.

]]> By: Abdullah Talukder https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/12/15/in-old-stepney/#comment-1427877 Thu, 28 Oct 2021 15:27:13 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=103959#comment-1427877 Jeni Hooper…..Ive just seen your message after 2 years.
Lily Talukder is my immediate elder sister.
We moved out of Senrab Street and the East End in 1981 to South West London.
My sister, went o Aberysthyth university to study International Politics, and then to Durham University to do a PhD. She didnt complete the PhD, but is now a qualified lawyer.

i studied Chemical Engineering at University, also doing a Masters degree. Spent the last 9 years in Saudi Arabia working for the world’s largest oil&gas company.

so glad you remember my sister.

]]> By: Wilmot https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/12/15/in-old-stepney/#comment-1415878 Sat, 02 Oct 2021 16:40:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=103959#comment-1415878 Yo Saf, small world lol, it’s Wilmot
I’m online now trying to find the same thing after walking past today and taking a photo of the old sign.
That’s mad, that sign is very old, do we know how old?
You might wanna save that sign somehow.

]]> By: Saf Rahman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/12/15/in-old-stepney/#comment-1415407 Fri, 01 Oct 2021 15:37:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=103959#comment-1415407 Does anyone have any photos of the old Manor J.Evans Dairy that was on Aylward Street E10QW please?

]]> By: TCS https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/12/15/in-old-stepney/#comment-1376535 Sat, 01 May 2021 22:29:10 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=103959#comment-1376535 To the poster who mentioned Old Church Road – it’s a short walk away and I went to nursery there. The Barnados was originally on what is Ben Jonson Road.

There was also a police station in Arbour Square, and the police houses were a little way across the road heading towards Stepney Way and Stepney Green.

Stepney and Spitalfields are two different places.

]]> By: Alison https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/12/15/in-old-stepney/#comment-1371033 Thu, 18 Mar 2021 09:06:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=103959#comment-1371033 Senrab Street is marked and named on Charles Booth’s wonderful 1889 map of London poverty, so was not renamed after the war. I think “Barnes backwards” is a coincidence as they were unlikely to joke with street names in those days but there is no proof either way. The 1889 map is wonderful. I have found EVERY street my forbears lived on, nearly all now disappeared or renamed, eg Fair Street which was parallel to Senrab Street and half of which remains as Dunelm Street.

]]> By: Tracy House https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/12/15/in-old-stepney/#comment-1333681 Sun, 29 Mar 2020 11:32:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=103959#comment-1333681 Hi
I was just researching my family tree, my great grandfather Henry William House lived in 4 Senrab St, along with his wife Emily and their young son William Edwin House. Sadly he was killed in action 1917 in France. It was lovely to see where his young family started.
Thank you

Tracy

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