Comments on: In Mile End Old Town

By: John Muhlhaus

John Muhlhaus — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 16:54:52 +0000

I visited Mile End Road recently and was amazed by the wonderful old buildings still surviving! Please tell me what the building is adjoining the Trinity Green Almshouses on the west side. It can’t be a fire station surely as the access wouldn’t be very good for fire vehicles but it clearly had a significant purpose…

By: Terry Kirkman

Terry Kirkman — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 17:35:42 +0000

What a wonderful set of photographs of Tredegar Square. As someone earlier suggested, a picture of the Coopers’ Company School would have completed the scenario. As a pupil there from 1949 -1956, I travelled up each day on the District Line from Hornchurch, where I lived, (then in the county of Essex) to Mile End Station with just a short walk to the school past the run-down tenements of Tredegar Square with their front doors open to the street. On a trip to London recently I visited the site of the old school and was pleasantly surprised to see that the building still there and converted now into flats and the playground made over to beautifully maintained gardens. These photographs really do justice to the stunning architecture of its time and in contrast to the less stunning modern developments in the area.

By: Judy P

Judy P — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 21:58:05 +0000

Admiral Sir Richard Haddock (b. c.1629), a Navy Commissioner, died on 29 Jan 1715. By his will he left his house in Mile End to his eldest son, Capt. Richard Haddock (1671-1751). Is there any way to identify exactly where this house was located and whether it still stands?
I would like to visit it.

By: John Garwood

John Garwood — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 08:09:37 +0000

Dear Gentle Author

I love your perambulations around the East End !! My family all hail from many residences in and around Bethnal Green area (Hackney Rd/Hoxton Square/Hoxton Market) and I wonder if there’s any history of the of the Garwood family in the in the area and if so where I can look.

I am a Restorer of Antique and Modern Glass now semi-retired but still do some restoration work and consultancy on the subject and visit London regularly l have a a client near Tredegar Square and following your brilliant visit with your camera must visit and investigate with my own.

Following a long day in London Tredegar is my last visit on my way home to Bishop Stortford and it’s like taking a deep breath even though it’s minutes from the Mile End Rd and a pint in the Tredegar sets me up for the journey.
I thank you for all your efforts highlighting the horrific developments going on which seem to be popping up like a rash every time I come up destroying our wonderful London treasures.

Many Thanks and kind Regards John

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 19:31:56 +0000

My ancestor George Bohn had a bakery on Mile End Road near the turnpike No.1 Barnes Place I don’t suppose there are any pictures of Barnes Place as I don’t think it’s there now.
George got into trouble around 1848 and lost the bakery, he died in a debtors prison
Love all theses old pics, even now these old buildings fascinate us, especially those with family connections in the area

By: Marc Hopla

Marc Hopla — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 07:42:17 +0000

Interestingly, there seems to be some connection with South Wales. Rhondda and Tredegar……

By: Barbara

Barbara — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 12:45:16 +0000

During the war (born 1940) we sometimes were at grandmothers in Mile End. House behind “The Buildings” (flats) in Lear Street, formerly called Cordelia Street. The terraced houses opened straight onto the pavement, and there was an air-raid shelter down the middle of the street. At the end of the road (cul de sac) was a high brick wall, and I was told there was a factory behind it. I have never been able to find any information about this factory, so presume it was a war effort. Lear Street and, I guess, surroundings was demolished some time after 1960, when my grandmother was moved out into a flat, not to far away. I have never been able to find the street on an old map.
Anybody remember any of these places?

By: Denis McSweeney

Denis McSweeney — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 07:23:17 +0000

In 1950 my family rented two rooms upstairs at 15 Carlton Square. the downstairs was occupied by Jessie Corry. We then moved to Limehouse in 1953.

By: Nigel Brown

Nigel Brown — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 19:54:43 +0000

Thank you for beautiful photographs. My 4 x great grandfather John Turpin (1781-1849) lived and died at No. 1 Tredegar Square, and three of his daughters continued to live there until the 1880s.

By: Diana Buck

Diana Buck — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 19:23:23 +0000

I never make a comment but I absolutely love this site. Thanks for all of your hard work, a work of love I am sure and know that I am reading and enjoying even if I rarely comment.
sincerely
Diana