EPW024224 ENGLAND (1928). The Carreras Cigarette Factory and environs, Camden Town, 1928

This is Little Clarendon Street, deemed by Booth to be one of the worst slums in London. My grandfather lived there as a child with my great Grandparents and my great great grandfather who was a cordwainer (shoe Maker) from Nenagh in Tipperary. The families lived at six different addresses in this street from 1890 - 1918 saying that it was cheaper to move than pay the rent. The street was demolished under the slum clearance programmes of the St Pancras House Improvement Society in the late twenties and early thirties when new estates were built which still exist and which my Dad and his family lived in until 1939.

81 Arlington Road behind the Bedford Theatre site where my father was born in 1927. It was condemned by the public health authorities then (something my Grandmother greatly resented as she took great pains to combat the fleas, bugs and mice which were endemic in the area). It is still there (in 2021) a very highly sought after very tasteful and expensive Georgian townhouse in private ownership.

Carlow House

Oakley Square

Maples

Camden Street

Bayham Street

Bayham Place

Kings Arms, King Street, later Plender Street

Richard Cobden School, Camden Street

Methodist Chapel, King Street, later Plender Street

St Matthews Church, Crowndale Road

Parrs Head, King Street, Later Plender Street

The Carreras Factory 04/09/2013

Camden High St

Tower blocks now stand on this site

Mornington Crescent Tube

Euston Rd

Euston Station

Cumberland Basin

Euston Upside Carriage Shed

Euston Downside Carriage Shed

Euston Carriage Sidings

Somers Town Goods Yard - beside St Pancras Station. In 1997, the site of the southern half of the Somers Town yard was redeveloped as the British Library