Tower Hamlets Adverts 1967
March 3, 2025
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Stefan Dickers, archivist at Bishopsgate Institute discovered these wonderful advertisements in a History of Tower Hamlets produced by the council in 1967 and I could not resist showing them to you. It is poignant to contemplate these proud images of manufacturing and long-established local businesses which are now all gone.
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Images courtesy Bishopsgate Institute
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Adverts from the Jewish East End
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Wonderful to see the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in this list!
This feels like a time capsule of a moment when Tower Hamlets was properly on the cusp of change. I was born in Wapping in 1963 and grew up (and went to school) in Stepney. Numbers of my friends had dads who were dockers and during our school life all that work went with the advent of containerisation. Many of those men went on to do the knowledge and become taxi drivers. A number of these businesses must have disappeared in the same period.
Fabulous! A total step back into the past…
Thoroughly enjoyed this post! A time gone and lost forever x
A couple of these adverts don’t tell the reader much about what is actually on sale. What is for sale at the Mallinson warehouse and who are their partners? And, reading between the lines, Mass Craftsmanship must be carpenters and joiners.
Love it
The Whitechapel Bell Foundry, from Elizabeth to Elizabeth. Let’s make it Elizabeth to Charles. Bring back the WBF!