#stepney green

[aneverydaything]

Day 2603, 9 August 2025

Housing lines, Stepney Green, London

[mostly-history]

David Granick’s photos of London’s East End (1960s - 70s)

Brushfield Street (1970).

Belhaven Street (1977).  A resident hangs on despite the encroaching demolition of Victorian housing.

The New Globe, Mile End Road (1977).  The Union Jack is to celebrate the Queen's silver jubilee.

The George Tavern on Commercial Road (1969), which opened in 1623.

Watney Market (1971), during the construction of two tower blocks, and a shopping area to replace some of the run-down housing south of Commercial Road in Whitechapel.

Spitalfields Market (1973).

Whitechapel Road (1965).  The people gathering in the photo are looking for work in the clothing trade on the corner of Greatorex Street, the heart of the Jewish East End.  The photo may have been taken on a Sunday morning, as the shops were closed on Saturday for the Sabbath.

Stifford Estate, Stepney Green (1961).  This photo was taken not long after these three tower blocks were built on Jamaica Street. Stifford Estate was demolished in 2000.

The clothing shop Gardiners (1960).  Gardiner's Corner, which united the main thoroughfares of east London, was named after the shop. Gardiners closed in 1971, and the next year, a fire gutted the century-old building and made the clock tower collapse.

West India Dock (1971).

[pennarsson]

Stifford Estate, Stepney Green, 1961 by David Granick (1912-1980)

[goodlivingrooms]

615 sq ft Stepney Green 2 bedroom apartment - London, England

[thisobscuredesireforbeauty]

David Granick.  Stifford Estate, Stepney Green, 1961. Source

[aneverydaything]

Day 1732, 21 March 2023

[great-photography-attributed]

three part harmony by d0gwalker

Mulberry Stepney Green school

Source: flickr.com

[pictures-and-writing]

Stepney Green

Your shadow doesn’t reflect what you do. It vanishes but you continue.

This is a photo of me and two of my best friends at the time, taken as we wait outside a dirty tube station to be reunited with our old school buddies. We kicked about casually for 10 minutes or so before the boys pushed through the gates ready to catch up on the last 6 months of university and puppy growth.