Interior of a house in Poplar High Street
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Interior of a house in Poplar High Street
Interior of a house in Poplar High Street
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SC_PHL_01_293_72_35_129_15A (Collage 98967)
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The London Archives: LCC Photograph Library
Description
General view of interior of 151 Poplar High Street, Poplar. Thought to be a sixteenth-century, timber framed home this shows architectural detail of original timber framing during demolition work. A man appears to be inspecting a timber beam with a ruler laid on top of it and is making notes on a clipboard (apparently the speed of demolition took the officers of the Historic Buildings Division by surprise and they were unable to complete the survey which they had undertaken 'as a piece of positive recording within the aims of the Survey of London and to fulfil the Council's undertaking to the National Monuments Record'. When they hurried to the site on the afternoon of 29 February 1972 they found the building largely demolished and they had to content themselves with taking more photographs). Behind the ban is corrugated iron shuttering. This is now the location of gardens in front of 1-26 Landon Walk on the St Matthias Estate.
General view of interior of 151 Poplar High Street, Poplar. Thought to be a sixteenth-century, timber framed home this shows architectural detail of original timber framing during demolition work. A man appears to be inspecting a timber beam with a ruler laid on top of it and is making notes on a clipboard (apparently the speed of demolition took the officers of the Historic Buildings Division by surprise and they were unable to complete the survey which they had undertaken 'as a piece of positive recording within the aims of the Survey of London and to fulfil the Council's undertaking to the National Monuments Record'. When they hurried to the site on the afternoon of 29 February 1972 they found the building largely demolished and they had to content themselves with taking more photographs). Behind the ban is corrugated iron shuttering. This is now the location of gardens in front of 1-26 Landon Walk on the St Matthias Estate.
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