General View of Bow Road
General View of Bow Road
Record No
109548
Title
General View of Bow Road
Description
View of shops, shoppers and traffic in Bow Road, Poplar, from the junction with Bromley High Street, looking west. Shops visible include C. Selby and Son, funeral director at number 146, a café at number 140 with market stalls in the gap between. Further along on the left-hand side of the road is a post office, a hairdressers next to Truman's, The Bird in Hand public house with Ind Coope's The Bow Bells public house visible further along. On the right-hand side of the road, a launderette (with a Grade II listed building entry 1251439, behind) can be seen next to a London Cooperative premises, with an arched stone pediment above, and a bank building on the corner with Fairfield Road opposite the Grade II listed, listing number 1393151 Poplar Town Hall (Bow House) on the far side. Bow Railway Station goods depot is visible in the distance along with Bow Road railway station, next to the railway bridge carrying the London and Blackwall Railway over the road. The street is bustling with pedestrians including a man smoking a cigarette, a toddler, and women pushing prams. Traffic queuing at the traffic lights including a Ford Anglia 105E van, Cortina Mark I, and an Anglia 100E van, a Triumph Herald, a Bedford TK over-cab box lorry, a flatbed lorry carrying tarpaulins, and London double-decker buses along with numerous other vehicles, and a towable compressor at the roadside beside a heap of excavated material. The shops have since been demolished and replaced by St Mary's Court housing development.
Date of execution
1967
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_287_67_3797
London picture map location
Exact
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