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Tag: Tower Hamlets

Bethnal Green Road, E2

20 September 2023 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Directional the road leading from Shoreditch to Bethnal Green. The eastern end of the route has been in…

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Filed under: Anglo-Saxon street name, Middle English, St Peter's, Tower Hamlets

Trafalgar Way, E14

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Place Name Takes its name not from the battle directly but from the East Indiaman frigate, Trafalgar, which was a…

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Filed under: Canary Wharf, industry, Nelson, Poplar, Poplar and Limehouse, streets made after ships, streets named after an Indian connection, Tower Hamlets

Ion Square, E2

1 November 2022 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name One of several streets named after the children of scientist Andrew Pritchard and his wife Caroline Isabella Straker.…

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Filed under: Bethnal Green, cluster, religion, streets named after Unitarians, Tower Hamlets, Weavers

Cuba Street, E14

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Place Name In the 19thCentury Cuba was the leading producer of sugar in the world, its output dwarfing the British…

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Filed under: Canary Wharf, docks, Poplar and Limehouse, slavery, Tower Hamlets, West Indies

Spert Street, E14

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Place Name Vice-Admiral of England Sir Thomas Spert (also spelt Pert) (died December 1541) was sailing master of the Mary Rose…

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Filed under: Henry VIII, Limehouse, Poplar, Royal Navy, streets named after sailors, Tower Hamlets

Emma Street, E2

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Place Name Named after members of the the Pritchard family. Andrew Pritchard, a “tilemaker of Hackney Road”, who in 1789…

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Filed under: Bethnal Green, Cambridge Heath, St Peter's, streets named after women, Tower Hamlets

Blackwall Tunnel Northern Approach, E14

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PLACE NAME So called after the embankment that was built to hold back the black river, the Thames. The wall…

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Filed under: Bromley By Bow, Tower Hamlets

Blackwall Way, E14

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PLACE NAME So called after the embankment that was built to hold back the black river, the Thames. The wall…

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Filed under: Blackwall and Cubitt Town, Canary Wharf, Tower Hamlets

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