Comments on: Tower Hamlets Adverts 1967

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:42:45 +0000

The Whitechapel Bell Foundry, from Elizabeth to Elizabeth. Let’s make it Elizabeth to Charles. Bring back the WBF!

By: Bailey Jones

Bailey Jones — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:40:53 +0000

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

By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:53:24 +0000

Thoroughly enjoyed this post! A time gone and lost forever x

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 10:13:45 +0000

Fabulous! A total step back into the past…

By: Joan

Joan — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 08:59:33 +0000

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.

By: Caroline Murray

Caroline Murray — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 08:14:59 +0000

Wonderful to see the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in this list!