Hostel, hotel and shops in Rich Street
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Hostel, hotel and shops in Rich Street
Hostel, hotel and shops in Rich Street
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SC_PHL_01_397_65_4158 (Collage 119947)
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London Metropolitan Archives: LCC Photograph Library
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Rich Street, Limehouse, looking north to the junction of East India Dock Road, West India Dock Road and Commercial Road. In the left foreground is a Sailors’ Home run by the British and Foreign Sailors’ Society. This building is now flats. In the right foreground is the Eastern Hotel, a Truman’s house built in 1860 and visited by the King of Siam and Polish novelist Joseph Conrad. It had a street address of 1 West India Dock Road and a postal address of 2 East India Dock Road. It was renamed The Londoner in the 1960s, Lipstick in the 1990s and demolished in the mid 1990s. The space is now covered by a hoarding. In the background, from right to left, there is a Barclay’s bank at 819 Commercial Road, Boots chemist’s at 817 and two other shops at 815 and 813. Behind the shops is a tall, square chimney. There are three black cabs, two cars, a cyclist and two women pedestrians in the photo. The Barclay’s bank is now (2020) a café, the chemist’s is Nash chemist’s and the shop next to it is the E14 Dental Centre. The next shop is derelict and the tall chimney has been demolished.
Rich Street, Limehouse, looking north to the junction of East India Dock Road, West India Dock Road and Commercial Road. In the left foreground is a Sailors’ Home run by the British and Foreign Sailors’ Society. This building is now flats. In the right foreground is the Eastern Hotel, a Truman’s house built in 1860 and visited by the King of Siam and Polish novelist Joseph Conrad. It had a street address of 1 West India Dock Road and a postal address of 2 East India Dock Road. It was renamed The Londoner in the 1960s, Lipstick in the 1990s and demolished in the mid 1990s. The space is now covered by a hoarding. In the background, from right to left, there is a Barclay’s bank at 819 Commercial Road, Boots chemist’s at 817 and two other shops at 815 and 813. Behind the shops is a tall, square chimney. There are three black cabs, two cars, a cyclist and two women pedestrians in the photo. The Barclay’s bank is now (2020) a café, the chemist’s is Nash chemist’s and the shop next to it is the E14 Dental Centre. The next shop is derelict and the tall chimney has been demolished.
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