Comments on: In Old Stepney

By: Barbara Barrington

Barbara Barrington — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:16:20 +0000

Thank you so much for this wonderful posting.

By: Cherub

Cherub — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:59:59 +0000

These are beautiful old properties, there are also properties like this behind Queen Mary University at Mile End. Back in the 80s a friend of mine lived in an upstairs flat overlooking Stepney East railway station, it was part of a big old detached house but the ground floor was pretty much derelict as it had been flooded. After he moved out to Essex the landlord sold the property, it was renovated and sold for about 2m.

By: Sigrid

Sigrid — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:47:59 +0000

Lovely photos! Though photo No. 5 is not near Dunelm Street, it is the corner of Senrab Street with Senrab Street, opposite Marion Richardson Primary School, the southern end of Senrab Street. ( I live in the area)

By: Bernie

Bernie — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 13:32:36 +0000

How magnificent it would have been if more of East London had been of such a standard! Imagine the serried ranks of Hackney or Dalston terraces replaced by green squares like these! Can anyone say what the economics would have been?

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:58:46 +0000

Arbour Square… Albert Gardens… the old pubs… all of it… lovely and tenacious in the face of adversity.

By: ANDY STROWMAN

ANDY STROWMAN — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 07:13:21 +0000

Does anyone remember the bomb going off at Arbour square Police station ?