Site of Captain Cook's House in Mile End Road
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Site of Captain Cook's House in Mile End Road
Site of Captain Cook's House in Mile End Road
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SC_PHL_01_393_70_4805 (Collage 118883)
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London Metropolitan Archives: LCC Photograph Library
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Front elevations of numbers 92-82 Mile End Road, Mile End Old Town. In the centre of the photograph is a brick wall with a slate ‘blue plaque’. This commemorates Captain James Cook, who lived at 88 Mile End Road (known as 7 Assembly Row when he lived there in 1764). In 1880 the house was converted into a shop. In 1907 a commemorative plaque was affixed over the door, but despite the plaque and its history, the house was demolished in 1959. The current plaque was installed by Greater London Council in 1970. Number 86 is the large building with Watney Mann sign over the door; it was once the Mile End Distillery. A Renault 4 is parked with his boot open outside number 82. Number 92 is a tobacconists and sweet shop advertising Players Cigarettes and Tizer. Classified advertisements for the East London Advertiser are accepted here.
Front elevations of numbers 92-82 Mile End Road, Mile End Old Town. In the centre of the photograph is a brick wall with a slate ‘blue plaque’. This commemorates Captain James Cook, who lived at 88 Mile End Road (known as 7 Assembly Row when he lived there in 1764). In 1880 the house was converted into a shop. In 1907 a commemorative plaque was affixed over the door, but despite the plaque and its history, the house was demolished in 1959. The current plaque was installed by Greater London Council in 1970. Number 86 is the large building with Watney Mann sign over the door; it was once the Mile End Distillery. A Renault 4 is parked with his boot open outside number 82. Number 92 is a tobacconists and sweet shop advertising Players Cigarettes and Tizer. Classified advertisements for the East London Advertiser are accepted here.
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