View of Wellclose Square
View of Wellclose Square
Record No
121576
Title
View of Wellclose Square
Description
View of four-, five-, and seven-storey buildings on the east side of Wellclose Square (formerly Marine Square), Whitechapel, in the former Metropolitan Borough of Stepney. At numbers 40 to 52, looking south across the playground of St Paul’s Whitechapel Church of England Primary School, visible on the right. Buildings include the former offices of Eagle Brewery (also Eagle Distillery) and tap room at 51 and 52, a seven-storey former pickle factory (previously a sugar house) at 48 and 49, five-storey pale brick Clifford House, a block of 24 flats at 44 and 45 (rebuilt c1899 to a design by architect John Robert Smith), originally, with a purpose-built synagogue at the rear, and more houses, including the premises of Nunn, Ridsdale and Company, ship lamp manufacturers, at the ground floor at 42. Vehicles parked in the street include a Vauxhall Velox EIP saloon, a Morris Minor 1000 on the pavement, a Standard 10 Companion, and a Ford Popular 100E next to the railings, seen with a van driving past, and a covered truck and tanker beyond the playground. 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, and Swedenborg Gardens.
Date of execution
1961
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_404_61_3690
London picture map location
Exact
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