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Post by Oracle on Aug 10, 2009 10:39:27 GMT
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Post by Oracle on Aug 10, 2009 10:40:41 GMT
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Post by Oracle on Aug 10, 2009 10:41:38 GMT
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Post by ducatisti on Aug 10, 2009 12:07:00 GMT
on the last one, isn't that Spitalfields Market on the Left? The tower you can see sticking up in the background is then part of the Truman Brewery, and the street runing off is Hanbury Street. www.streetmap.co.uk/oldmap.srf?x=533725&y=181820&z=110&sv=533725,181820&st=4&ar=Y&mapp=oldmap.srf&searchp=oldsearch.srf&lm=0 is where I think it is. There is a pub on that corner whose name eludes me... now very trendy |
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Post by Oracle on Aug 10, 2009 12:25:06 GMT
Truman's makes sense, thanks..there are several of their trucks in the photo series, and one or two pubs. Spitalfields also makes sense as well thanks.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2009 17:23:30 GMT
looks like commercial st to me if im right there is a church on the opposite side of the road
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Post by Oracle on Aug 10, 2009 18:07:16 GMT
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Post by Oracle on Aug 12, 2009 13:36:39 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2009 19:29:03 GMT
looks like to be by the traffic lights where the old goods yard was the white building on the left is still there so assuming it is that location
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Post by towerman on Aug 12, 2009 20:48:30 GMT
There's supposed to be the best bagel shop in London around that area,known to all TO's on nights.The only problem is dodging the "ladies of the night"
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Post by Oracle on Aug 12, 2009 22:44:14 GMT
Right, thanks everyone! 1. www.gmhistorian.btinternet.co.uk/abg533.jpg shows the side of Toynbee Hall south at 28 Commercial Street, and thr wall on the left is still there but replaced. The crane is a wheeled one on scaffolding. 2. www.gmhistorian.btinternet.co.uk/abg545.jpg shows the Commercial Street bridge over the ex-GER with the round building on the corner with Quaker Street. The building behind that evidently also still exists. The Bishopsgate HL Goods Depot is behind the left-side high wall and that burned down not long before the pix were taken in December 1964. I appreciate all the efforts! Photo abg530 is looking back at the Toynbee Hall etc. |
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Post by ducatisti on Aug 13, 2009 9:11:56 GMT
Mmm... the beigel shops (there's two of them) at the top of Brick Lane... fantastic. (although agree re the avoiding point).
Used to live round there just off the Bethnal Green Road.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2009 10:21:08 GMT
best beigal shop is the one on the end of the street the salt beef is fantastic plus the apple turnovers yum yum
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Post by Oracle on Aug 13, 2009 12:14:44 GMT
Is the Bagel shop the one that comes alive at midnight or so, with service into the early hours? I haven'd had salt beef sandwiches since I went to college near Kings Cross back in 1974!
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Post by Bighat on Aug 13, 2009 12:46:46 GMT
Mmm... the beigel shops (there's two of them) at the top of Brick Lane... fantastic. (although agree re the avoiding point). Used to live round there just off the Bethnal Green Road. Yes, it's the one nearest the traffic lights in Hackney Road that is open longest and get the best accplades for their beigels, but they are NOT kosher! The other one is Kosher, as are their beigels, so is not open on the Sabbath. I speak as an enthusiastic 'goy' in the area since childhood! ;D |
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Post by railtechnician on Aug 13, 2009 15:57:17 GMT
best beigal shop is the one on the end of the street the salt beef is fantastic plus the apple turnovers yum yum We used to frequent the Kosher one, parking was always tricky as it was busy, busy, busy. Even the guv knew that Brick Lane was on the Picc, yours probably thought it was on the District. Mind you when working at the Picc East End substations I'd sometimes use the bagel shop in Wood Green on the edge of Shopping City and occasionally I might even frequent the one in Tottenham High Road. My favourite bagel was cream cheese and thanks to Tesco I can still get them here in Lincs. |
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Post by Oracle on Aug 13, 2009 17:13:21 GMT
OTT there used to be an excellent kebab shop next to Turnham Green statiion...went there once from Hounslow with mates especially.
Cream cheese and smoked salmon for me (bagels that is!). Right, now we have a new motorbility car for our son, bagels from the Brick Lane area are on the menu!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2009 10:51:25 GMT
another fav place is billy bunters on the mile end road between whitechapel and stepney green if i remember its outside blockbuster video store its a little cabin but sells the best breakfast baps all night long. if anyone does go there go for the gut buster its cholestrol heaven  |
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