Railings of a building in Stepney Green
Railings of a building in Stepney Green
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Railings of a building in Stepney Green
SC_PHL_01_399_56_191 (Collage 120254)
London Metropolitan Archives: LCC Photograph Library
A view of the front wall and ornate railings of number 37-39 Stepney Green, Stepney, a Grade II listed Queen Anne House which was built in 1694 by Dormar Sheppard, a enslaver and merchant. Notable owners include Dame Mary Gayer, widow of the East India Company's Governor of Bombay, and in 1812-19 Nicholas Charrington, proprietor of the local Charrington Brewery. It became an institution and was a home for aged Jews after 1880, the Craft School in 1907, and served as Council Offices and a Careers Office during the 1980s. In 1998 it was purchased by the Spitalfields Trust and restored to a family home. Wooden supports can be seen against the building next door, which stood above the entrance to The Geere House Open Air School. The small open-air school for tuberculous children was established in 1927 by the LCC in the gardens of numbers 35-37. The school closed down at the beginning of World War II and its pupils were evacuated to a large house in Ascot called Daneswood.
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