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A History of the County of Middlesex
… 63 but most remained continually on the move within the East End. Emigration rose from 1,088 in the decade 1851-61 to … trade or regular labourers. Although St. George-in-the-East possessed the poorest district, Bethnal Green had the … small manufacturers and shopkeepers in Cambridge Road, the east side of the green, Bethnal Green Road, Green Street, and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the main roads, but there had been deterioration in the east which c. 1930 included the lowest category, 'degraded … bounded west by Pritchard's Road and Temple Street and east by Lark Row and Russia Lane. The area contained 1,210 … pre-war estates, and described as the 'best in the East End', it provided free electric light and was considered …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… spanning the Hackney boundary, between marshland to the east and west which is included in the district described … 19th century. Chambers, the most northerly estate on the east side of Cambridge Road, was taken for building from … on the west fronting Cambridge Road and another on the east. He built houses fronting the road by 1804, 26 Newmarket …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… portion was marked as 'Driftway' with a path to the east, called 'footway to Clay Hall' in 1760. 29 The road was … probably Bernareys 1404), 52 both probably back lanes east of the green, Rush (later Russia) Lane to the east of Cambridge Heath (1550), 53 and Crabtree Lane leading …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… on the west side of Dog Row, and 'ancient houses' on the east, at the junction with Mile End Road. By 1703 houses … on the west lay within Bethnal Green. 81 Houses on the east side of Dog Row were part of property owned by Sir … 93 In 1765 David Wilmot took a lease of ground on the east side of Cambridge Road, before it branched into Dog Row …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of whom, Henry Rowe, had 40 a., mostly in the north-east. 40 Augmented by Dannetts field, there were still 15 … 'husbandman of Stepney', who was leased 29 a. in the south-east of the estate from 1690, 42 was the largest and also … Corker occupied 23 a. of Bishop's Hall in the north-east, together with 11 a. of the adjoining estate. In 1712 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Henry Althans moved to Bethnal Green where he founded the East London Auxiliary to the Sunday School Union and became … school in 1811. 70 The Sunday schools established by the East London Auxiliary to the Sunday School Union by 1816 … infants' school in Orange Street had 50, 24 the East London Grammar school at no. 463 Bethnal Green Road had …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Gardens Association. 68 BROOMFIELDS, 69 in the south-east corner of Bethnal Green, possibly incorporated closes … as BARNET CHARITY estates, most of the field, 10¾ a. south-east of Birdcage Walk, was given to support Jesus Hospital, … Comonfield was one of two closes, 19 21 a. in all, south-east of Ravenscroft's, which by 1679 was held by Patient Ward …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the legend of the Blind Beggar and later as the archetypal East End slum, the green lying c. 2½ miles (4 km.) north-east of St. Paul's cathedral. 1 A hamlet of Stepney until … and north, Hackney on the north, Stratford-at-Bow on the east, and Mile End and Spitalfields on the south. Hackney …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… at the celebration of Purim, built a terrace on the east side of Dog Row, which he called Purim Place. 50 By the … married there at no. 7. 51 A little to the north, on the east side of Cambridge Road in Queen's Row, 52 a Jews' asylum …