View of the offices of the Eagle Brewery (also Eagle Distillery) and Brewery Tap at 50 to 52 Wellclose Square (formerly Marine Square), Whitechapel, in the former Metropolitan Borough of Stepney, looking east. The Eagle Brewery was operating at number 52 in the square’s north-east corner by 1841. Number 51 was occupied by Harvey Greenfield & Co., brewers, from the 1870s, with numbers 48–50 added around 1897 to the Eagle Brewery estate, with 52 continuing up to around 1910 as the Eagle Brewery tavern. Brewing in Wellclose Square can be traced from 1762 with Brewer, Joachim Frederick Dolge via William Clark and Company, Harvey Greenfield, John Hillier of the Brewery Tap, to W. H. Sorrell (died 1910), head brewer, patentee, and inventor of innovative brewing equipment. The building was put up for sale in 1914. The four-storey building at number 51 was believed to have been rebuilt c1820 with a Greek Revival rendered facade featuring Ionic pilasters over the middle two floors topped with a corniced frieze, French doors at the first floor with a bracketed cornice moulding above, sash windows at the second floor, and a glazed shop front with timber panels at the ground floor, with 'Brewery Office' over a privacy panel etched into the main window. Railings with metal gates front the office entrance and the side door. The four-storey red brick tavern at number 52, has gauged brick flat arches above two-over-two sash windows at the middle two floors and a timber-clad entrance vestibule at the ground floor with an ornate cast-iron parapet, seen with a cast-iron street lamp, in front of the main doors, with a young lad walking past. Signs above the upstairs windows, and around the double entrance doors, advertise brown stout, pale ales, Greenlees Claymore rare old whisky, with more signs above the entrance reading 'Brewery Tap' and 'Clarke's A I. O P P O'. The four-storey with basement red brick house at number 50, on the right, has similar gauged brick arches above the windows, with dormer windows in the tiled roof. The brewery tavern continued until c1910. The buildings were among the last to be demolished as part of the London County Council's slum clearance campaign, and redeveloped c1968 with the 28-storey Hatton House of the Greater London Council's, St George's Estate.