EAW011171 ENGLAND (1947). Minories, Aldgate Bus Station and environs, London, 1947

VINE STREET

The Three Nuns Hotel. It closed in 1960 as a Charrington's Hotel and is now Demolished.

Stern's Hotel on maps of the time.

Vine Street.

The Angel Public House at the time of the photo.

The Essex Arms 41 Aldgate High Street, Aldgate EC3 (corner of Middlesex Street). It's full name was The Essex Coffee House", it was a Barclay Perkins house. Closed in 1968 and later demolished for road widening.

1 Whitechapel High Street "The Three Tuns" (PH).

Ten Bells Pub, Commercial Street

One of five trolleybuses at the, as a large sign at the entrance pronounced, Trolleybus and Green Line Coach Station. Like the trams earlier the City Corporation objected to trolleybuses entering the City, but unlike the trams buses were unable to turn at the tram terminal next to the Metropolitan and District Algate East Underground station. Diesel buses had a layby in the Minories and the LT Board enlarged this layby by constructing a deck over the railway cutting in which the District and Circle lines met. Plans had been drawn up to have islands and a pedestrian subway, possibly linking to the underground station, but these were never fulfilled. Aldgate station was the busiest terminus on the system and at one time 124 buses departed from here between 7&8 am on routes 567, 569, 627, 653, 661, and 663, with a total for the day being 1,358 movements . The first (and last) route to use Algate was the 653 commencing on the 5th March 1939 and running til the 31st January 1961. The 653 was unusual in that it ran to Tottenham Court Road - about 2.5 miles to the west, but went on a long circular route via Stamford Hill.

Missouri Angel Steakhouse, Vine Street/Crosswall, 17/02/2015

Aldgate Bus Station, 17/02/2015

Aldgate Underground Station, 17/02/2015

Ibex House

Jewry Street

There are lots of trolleybuses to be seen.

Spitalfields Market

Spitalfields Market Building

Christ Church Spitalfields

Houndsditch Warehouse

Minories

Saint Botolph without Aldersgate