Houses in Ropery Street
Houses in Ropery Street
Record No
119991
Title
Houses in Ropery Street
Description
Two-storey terraced mid-nineteenth-century houses at 25-33, 35-51 and 38-58 Ropery Street, Mile End, looking south-east towards Lockhart Street. On the left are numbers 25-33 and 35-51 and on the right, 38-58. Numbers 25-33 have arched doorways; numbers 33-51 and 38-58 all have bay windows. Numbers 38-58 also have small front yards. After number 33 is a one-storey building and yard then the houses continue from 35 until 51, where the road turns right into Lockhart Street. The building at the turn, with the black door, is 31 Lockhart Street. There is some writing above 27-25 Lockhart Street which looks like the name of a pub. In the background on the left, trees in Tower Hamlets Cemetery are visible and one of Bow Common gasworks’ tanks can be seen in the far background behind Cantrell Road. Five estate cars, a truck and a van are parked in Ropery Street. Ropery Street was built as housing for rope and twine employees of rope works on Bow Common Lane. As more people came to live and die in Bow, Tower Hamlets Cemetery was built in 1840, one of London’s ‘Magnificent Seven’. It closed as a cemetery in 1966 but is open as a nature reserve. Bow Common Gasworks was built in 1850 engineered by Alexander Croll. Most of the gas holders were demolished in 1982, the last two in 2017 and development of the site for mixed residential and business use is planned. Ropery Street conservation area was created in May 1987 so all these houses are still in existence and have been renovated.
Date of execution
1975
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_397_75_120_540_5
London picture map location
Exact
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