Pub, shops and houses in Red Lion Street
Pub, shops and houses in Red Lion Street
Record No
120049
Title
Pub, shops and houses in Red Lion Street
Description
A terraced row of shops and houses in Red Lion Street (now Reardon Path), Wapping, looking south. On the left at the side of a front door is a standing lion capital with no pilaster below. There is a metal support bolt at the side of the door. The next building has a pub front with a sign holder minus a pub sign (it is 64 Red Lion Street, which was the Old George). The building has two of its front windows boarded up, two barred and graffiti on the panelling under the windows but there are plants in pots on the first-floor window sills. The buildings beyond the pub are houses. All the buildings in the row are two-storey except the last house, which is three-storey. On the opposite side of the street are shops with high steps up to their entrances and small canopies over their doors. There are two gas lamps, attached to a shop and a house. The paving on both sides of the street slopes down to the centre. A woman is standing in the doorway of the house next to the pub and there is a small cat near her. There is a milk bottle on the window sill of the next house. These buildings no longer exist, the pub was demolished in 1929. 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. The site where these buildings were is now a patch of grass between Beechey House and Parry House.
Date of execution
1928
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_397_A5214
London picture map location
Exact
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