EAW047055 ENGLAND (1952). Stepney Church Yard, the Limehouse Fields Estate and King George's Field, Mile End, 1952. This image was marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.

A sunny, Sunday morning in 1952. A group of typically cheerful East Enders are about to set of on a Beano to celebrate the coming marriage of one of their younger pub mates. The coach stands in Portia Road close to their local, 'The Rising Sun'. Most of the men would have served in WW1 or WW2. The irrepressible humour and genuine nature is there to see, and they were literally the last of their breed.

Sarum Road. Now built over.

Sarum Road. Now gone,

Sarum Road

English Street.

Southern Grove School. Listed Building

Southern Grove School. Listed building

The Victoria Hotel on the corner of Bede Road and Burdett Road.

Bede Road.

Harker Stag Pharmaceuticals

Ben Jonson School

Charls Pie & Mash shop

Stepney Way prefabs

Treby and Maplin Street prefabs

Shandy Street prefabs

The remains of Leopold House founded by Dr. Barnardo. It was opened in 1883 as a boys home. At its peak it housed 450 boys aged between 10-13 years. It closed in 1912 and later became a shoe and clothing factory. It was bombed and destroyed in 1941.

The shop on the corner of Burdett and Bede Road, was Vines Bakery. Some varieties of bread were; Tin loaf. French loaf and a Farmhouse loaf.

The Albion Pub in St. Paul's Way.

The photo Timothy Road showing the cleared bombed site was taken here.

Timothy Road, most of which has gone. The photo shows access to the playground of Seager Place School (St. Pauls CE) across a cleared site that was bombed.

Trolleybus heading for West India Dock on route 677. This route commenced operating on 10th September 1939 and, running in a horsehoe formation through Hackney, Dalston and Islington, ran between West India dock and Smithfield. As a replacement for tram service 77, which had run to Aldersgate, it was itself replaced by bus route 277 early on in the conversion programme on 14th April 1959.

56 Turners Road. Two families (11 people) occupied this house after the war between 1947 and 1953. This row of terraces was demolished in the late 1980's.

Turners Road.

Site of the Vouge Cinema, bombed in WW2, 1941.

The Odeon Cinema, Mile End.

The Crystal Tavern pub.

St. Lukes Church.

The Earl of Zetland Pub.

The Rising Sun Pub.

The Salibury Arms Pub.

Burdett Road Fire Station.

Edinburgh Castle Mission. In the late 1940's and early 1950's, free movies were shown to the local kids, which for many were the first they had seen.

St. Pauls CE School, or Seager Place School.

St Dunstan and All Saints Church

37 ST ANNS RD

little star ph

haley st school

victory bridge

colet ph

king john st

Commodore st

NOW MILE END PARK ETC

REGENTS CANAL

AUNT SALLY PUB

ST ANNS RD CHANGED TO MIDLOTHIAN RD, BOW

BURDETT RD, BOW