Comments on: The Map Of Industrious Shoreditch https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/05/05/the-map-of-industrious-shoreditch/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Tue, 08 May 2018 13:15:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Annie S https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/05/05/the-map-of-industrious-shoreditch/#comment-1207219 Tue, 08 May 2018 13:15:46 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=166011#comment-1207219 Just noticed something very intriguing, on the corner of Club Row and Old Nichol Street was a Cheltenham Ladies College Settlement which seems rather out of place in Shoreditch!
Having done a search i found this https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iMrJN5xz8SAC&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86&dq=cheltenham+ladies+college+settlement+shoreditch&source=bl&ots=gij8mLbx5T&sig=JOIvx-neYvj_RqmUZtII
Interesting.

]]> By: Chris Webb https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/05/05/the-map-of-industrious-shoreditch/#comment-1206714 Sat, 05 May 2018 17:53:20 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=166011#comment-1206714 You recently wrote about the girl whose parents ran the Primrose pub on the corner of Primrose St and Bishopsgate but on this map it’s called The Middleton Arms. I wonder when it changed its name. In the mid 80s I worked in Bishopsgate and we would go in there occasionally, although we’d go into the Paul Pindar mostly as they had pool tables upstairs. I remember to my shame we used to drink Carling Black Label, something I’d now find repulsive. Do they even still make it?

If anybody is surprised to see a car factory in the middle of the City, in the early days of the car industry there were hundreds of small manufacturers, mostly now completely forgotten, assembling cars in tiny numbers from mostly off-the-shelf components they bought in. Seabrooks have a smaller premises round the corner from the factory – I suspect that was the entire company, one small factory plus an adjacent showroom.

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