We’re off for a look at London’s East End in colour on 1986. Thanks to Peter Marshall, we can see Hoxton and Spitafields before the developers’ money and home counties’ hipsters moved in. There are photographs of shop fronts of food and businesses long gone, ghost signs of their predecessors and a few people – is that you, one of the three boys smiling in Stepney Green?
We love to hear and ses your stories. Catherine spotted her mum’s house on Arbour Square, just off the Commercial Road. “That’s Johns blue Volvo parked out number 3!!”
Wilkes St, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, 1986
We Want Decent Housing in the E1 Area, Varden St, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, 1986
Ceramics, Shop, Old St, Hoxton, Hackney, 1986
Mural, Wenlock Rd, Hoxton, 1986
B Weinberg, Printers, Brick Lane, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, 1986
Bill Mayes, Sandwich Bar, Commercial Rd, Limehouse, 1986
Three boys, Stepney Green, Tower Hamlets, 1986, 86c61-12
Cable St Mural, Cable St, Shadwell, Tower Hamlets, 1986
Brotherton & Sons, 566, Commercial Rd, Limehouse, Tower Hamlets, 1986
Black Cat Cigarettes, Advertising, flats, Hackney, 1986
Beauty Cloth Stores, New Road area, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, 1986
Crown and Dolphin, Cable St, Cannon St Rd, Shadwell, Tower Hamlets, 1986
C Levy, Woollens, Worsteds, 150, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, 1986
Caribbean House, Community Centre, Bridport Place, Hoxton, Hackney, 1986
Curas Cafe, 643, Commercial Rd, Limehouse, Tower Hamlets, 1986
Elvisly Yours, Shoreditch High St, Shoreditch, Hackney, 1986
Market trolley, Hoxton Market, Hoxton St, Hoxton, Hackney, 1986
East & West Social Club – Cannon St, Tower Hamlets-1986
Entrance, Curtain Rd, Shoreditch, Hackney, 1986
Former Turkish Bath – Bishopsgate Churchyard- – 1986
Florists’, Packing, Tissue, Donovan Bros, Crispin St, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, 1986
Gents, Hair Stylist, 11, White’s Row. Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, 1986
Geo Tallent, Broadway Market, Hackney, 1986
Globe International Autos, Cephas St, Globe Town, Tower Hamlets, 1986
Gas holders, Regent’s Canal, Wharf Place, Andrews Rd, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, 1986
Goldring, 2, Hessel St, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, 1986
Hayes & English, Funeral Directors, Hoxton St, Hoxton, Hackney, 1986
Goods Receiving & Delivery, Back Church Lane, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, 1986
C Friedman, Wholesale, Manchester, Warehouseman, Commercial Rd, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, 1986
J Evans, Dairy, Conway St, Warren St, Fitzrovia, Westminster,1986
Balmoral Fish Bar, Tower Hamlets, 1986
Arbour Square, Stepney, Tower Hamlets, 1986
Joyces Hair Fashions, Romford St, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, 1986
M & J Mainzer, 14, Broadway Market, Hackney, 1986
Kingsland Basin, Dalston, Hackney, 1986
Shop window, Commercial Rd, Stepney, Tower Hamlets, 1986
West Ham, J R Travel, Bonner St, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, 1986
Shop, 24, Hessel St, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, 1986
River Thames, Sailing Ship, Isle of Dogs, 1986
Shops, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, 1986
Market, Cheshire St, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, 1986
Regents Canal, Hertford Union Canal, Stoneway Walk, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, 1986
S Ward & Co, Railway Arch, Limehouse Dock, Limehouse, Tower Hamlets, 1986
Washing, Yard, Cranford Cottages, Cranford St, Shadwell, Tower Hamlets, 1986
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