Stroudley Walk directory

In 2014 I wrote a post about my local shopping parade in Bow, Stroudley Walk, a 1980s redevelopment I described as "aspirational but hideous". "As the centrepiece of a new estate they planned two arcades of shops as well as a central market. The feature colour was brown with the new shops shielded behind rows of thick brick arches. Were this anywhere posh you might be able to call them arcades but these are merely dingy shields, making it harder than necessary to read the names of the shops behind. On top they built utilitarian flats, again mostly brown. And outside they left a windswept brown space, a pedestrian zone far wider than necessary, plus a substantial dedicated area for the creation of a market. If that ever materialised it's long gone now, with metal studs in the tarmac all that remains to delineate an absence of stalls. Only one stallholder ever turns up these days, selling scant fruit and veg beneath an awning opposite the Post Office. As postwar regeneration projects go…