Houses and shops in Red Lion Street
Houses and shops in Red Lion Street
Record No
120045
Title
Houses and shops in Red Lion Street
Description
Two rows of terraced buildings in Red Lion Street (now Reardon Street and Reardon Path), Wapping. The first row is houses, the second shops. The first house on the right is 22 Red Lion Street. The front doors of the houses have on both sides Corinthian capitals topping fluted pilasters, small canopies over their lintels and two steps leading up to the doorsteps. The basement windows are covered by iron cages except for the first house, where the basement windows are only barred. The first-floor windows have all been shortened. The last house is supported by props. A woman and two children are looking out of a first-floor window of the first house and a man is on the roof of the second house. There is a window box on the top storey of the third house. A toddler is sitting on the steps of the penultimate house. The shops on the second terraced row have large ground-floor display windows. In the left foreground there is a cat. These buildings no longer exist. Between 1926 and 1932, the street was redeveloped as part of London County Council’s Wapping housing scheme. The southern part of Red Lion Street was widened by Stepney Borough Council and in 1938 was renamed Reardon Path; the northern part was renamed Reardon Street. Slum housing was replaced by twelve blocks of flats named after famous sailors and explorers who had sailed out from the East End docks. These flats were renovated during the development phase that began in the 1970s and still exist under their original names. Beechey House, Parry House, Willoughby House and Vancouver House are all in Reardon Path.
Date of execution
1924
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_397_A1715
London picture map location
Exact
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