Comments on: Chris Miles’ East End https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/08/19/chris-miles-east-end-x/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 23 Mar 2025 16:13:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Leanne Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/08/19/chris-miles-east-end-x/#comment-1703787 Sun, 23 Mar 2025 16:13:10 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=176278#comment-1703787 My 2nd gt grandfather Frederick C Robinson, owned a general store in Collier Street near Pentonville Road. I have been looking through one of his pay books from 1928 and found that Littlewood Bros Ltd were one of his customers. According to his records they purchased insecticide (Frederick made his own called Robinsecto) and atomisers and vaporisers. There are addresses for Edgware Road, Caledonian Road, Whitfield Street, Harrow Road, Vauxhall Road and Bendel (?) Street in Lisson Grove.
I would like to hear more from Paul New about this business and whether my ancestor got a mention in their accounts!

]]> By: David Doxey https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/08/19/chris-miles-east-end-x/#comment-1635314 Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:28:21 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=176278#comment-1635314 Allan Enterprises and L and R Ostroff were both furniture suppliers. I used to collect furniture from them in the sixties and early seventies.

]]> By: Paul New https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/08/19/chris-miles-east-end-x/#comment-1345467 Sun, 12 Jul 2020 21:34:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=176278#comment-1345467 Our family once owned the Littlewood bros Ltd hardware stores in London from approx 1850-1980s. The last family member with the Littlewood surname passed away in May 2020. We have come across a number of journals and accounts from 1908 and a few photos of other stores in London. During the 1970-1980s business took a turn for the worse With bigger name DIY stores cropping up and the remaining 6 or so Littlewood stores were sold to Robert Dyas Ltd.

]]> By: Richard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/08/19/chris-miles-east-end-x/#comment-1305866 Wed, 21 Aug 2019 11:26:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=176278#comment-1305866 Is the Davies shop a Welsh Dairy? Garn is a Welsh word but I don’t know how the meaning fits.

]]> By: Justin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/08/19/chris-miles-east-end-x/#comment-1305683 Tue, 20 Aug 2019 22:52:07 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=176278#comment-1305683 L & R Ostroff were furniture makers at 28 Columbia Rd. They incorporated in 1943 and were listed as being in compulsory liquidation in 1993. The site is now an estate.

]]> By: Kim Rennie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/08/19/chris-miles-east-end-x/#comment-1305553 Tue, 20 Aug 2019 13:29:47 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=176278#comment-1305553 J Kelly’s was 150 Roman Road

]]> By: Lesley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/08/19/chris-miles-east-end-x/#comment-1305516 Tue, 20 Aug 2019 10:50:58 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=176278#comment-1305516 The J Kelly pie and mash shop was on Roman Road near the corner of Usk Street. We used to stay with my nan during the school holidays and have vivid memories of being taken there for lunch by her. “Pie and mash twelve times, please!”

]]> By: Chris Miles https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/08/19/chris-miles-east-end-x/#comment-1305443 Tue, 20 Aug 2019 04:56:44 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=176278#comment-1305443 Thanks so much to everyone that has added details and recollections to these pictures. They become so much more when they are given a context and some of my memories of taking them are frankly a bit hazy now!

I wish there were a lot more and I’m slowly sorting through boxes of old negatives but this is certainly the core of the cafes project. I have another collection of Notting Hill Carnival photographs from around the same period and they can be found in the People and Places section of my website at http://www.cnmiles.ca

If anyone would like a digital copy of any one of the images please send me an email and I’d be happy to send a file.

Special thanks as always to The Gentle Author for all that this site does to make connections and enhance community.

Chris

]]> By: Patrick https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/08/19/chris-miles-east-end-x/#comment-1305291 Mon, 19 Aug 2019 20:09:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=176278#comment-1305291 As can be seen from the picture of ‘S Kornbloom’, that part of Jubilee St was derelict at the time, and the Council sold off the ruined houses for, I think, a couple of hundred pounds each. I saw today that one of those houses is currently for sale for £1.6 million.

]]> By: Patrick https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/08/19/chris-miles-east-end-x/#comment-1305282 Mon, 19 Aug 2019 19:56:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=176278#comment-1305282 ‘Corner Shop, Groceries And Provisions’ in Stepney Way was on the corner with Jubilee St, opposite Tadmans. We all knew the shop as ‘Sadie’s’ after the lady who ran it.

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