Here are some pics from a few weeks ago when I walked from Whitechapel High Street to The Prospect of Whitby pub on the Thames Path. It's an area I like a lot and every time I pass through I spot something I hadn't noticed last time. Here goes. Heading first to Stepney Farm, I decided rather than walk via gorgeous Stepney Green, as is often my default route, that I'd use White Horse Lane. It's a mix of old and new housing and then there's this with this strange construction at No.39a bearing the date of 1928 in very badly-rendered numbers!Here was the Ideal Garage at street level with Goldstein Marks, mantle manufacturers (ladies' coats) upstairs. Indeed, in the 1930s, most of this street was occupied by Jewish garment manufacturers intermingled with btchers, bakers, tobacconists etc. The windows are clearly UPVC replacements and it's fair to assume that they would have originally been metal frames. I wonder what the building looked like in 1928 and what it was used for.On the…
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