Whitechapel - Mile End Road, London, c1903

            A view taken looking east towards the south side of Mile End Road - the photographer would be standing just a little to the east of the junction with Cambridge Heath Road. At this time the area was one of the great bustling suburbs of the East End and indeed still is although none of the buildings seen on t e south side here still stand. They were cleared in the 1930s and '40s for the large blocks of post-war reconstruction around Adelina Grove. The note says 1903 and it is amazing to think that this section of road would soon be seeing great changes particularly in terms of transport. On the surface the horse 'buses and horse trams would soon be supplanted by electric trams and, in a few short years, the motor bus. Just beneath the street surface here, if it was 1903, the newly opened Whitechapel & Bow Railway's tunnels would be in service and the lines here, now part of the District and Hammersmith & City line services, would also soon be tunred over to electrification. At the moment the horse reigns supreme as can be seen by the droppings of horse manure around the street! 

Two Victorian pubs can clearly be seen - the "Fox and Yorkshire Grey' was a Whitbread establishment (how cheeky given you could see two of the East End's biggest breweries form here, neither of which was Whitbreads!) and it lost, or rather surrendered its licence in 1910 with the changes to licensing and excise duty. Almost next door is the Charrington's house "The Earl Grey". The Dining Rooms of Elizabeth Mongston is at 42 Mile End Road and that places it on the corner of the long lost Greenwood Street. 

The rather ornate lamp posts are gas lanterns, possibly burning town gas or otherwise acetylene gas. Lost London captured here - a quiet day so I'm wondering if this is a Sunday morning?

Taken on: May 26, 2006

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