Buildings in Whitechapel High Street
Buildings in Whitechapel High Street
Record No
121950
Title
Buildings in Whitechapel High Street
Description
Front elevations of 80-94 Whitechapel High Street, Whitechapel, looking east. Furthest away is an arched entrance to the Whitechapel Art Gallery. The White Hart public house is at number 89 owned by Ind Coope. Number 88 has a Grade II listing, list entry number 1391964, for the two Arthur Szyk signs, one on the exterior and the other above the first-floor lift shaft. Shops names include Bloom, Joseph Zilaha, Gelkoff's [confectioner], M[ax] and Prevezer at number 93. 92-93 are a pair of narrow shop-houses which has been a single building since 2002, the shop portion since 1990 at the latest. Both were built in 1861-2, number 92 to the designs of G. H. Simmonds, architect of the Eastern Dispensary in Leman Street. Reginald (Peter) Southouse Cheyney (1896–1951), who rose to success as an author of crime fiction, was born here, and Abram Bronowski, father of the mathematician and broadcaster Jacob Bronowski, was here in the 1930s, as was Gelkoff confectioners, from 1956 to 1988.
Date of execution
1977
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_405_77_120_39_2
London picture map location
Exact
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