Buildings in Stepney Green
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Buildings in Stepney Green
Buildings in Stepney Green
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SC_PHL_01_399_F4040 (Collage 120363)
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London Metropolitan Archives: LCC Photograph Library
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A view of the Craft School at number 37-39 Stepney Green, Stepney, a Queen Anne House with cast iron railings on top of a brick wall either side of a full height ornate iron gate. The front door has panelled pilasters and carved scroll brackets supporting a shell hood. The first-floor level windows have Juliet balconies and there are attic room windows. This Grade II listed building 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 become a family home. To the left is the entrance to The Geere House Open Air School, a small open-air school for tuberculous children 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. To the right of the photograph there is a ladder and scaffolding against the wall of the London Jewish Hospital which was established to serve the needs of the Jewish population in the East End. With its own synagogue and kitchens preparing kosher food, it was sold for redevelopment as a private clinic in 1979. The hospital and synagogue were demolished and the London Independent Hospital with a frontage on Beaumont Square constructed. Housing now occupies what was the Stepney Green frontage.
A view of the Craft School at number 37-39 Stepney Green, Stepney, a Queen Anne House with cast iron railings on top of a brick wall either side of a full height ornate iron gate. The front door has panelled pilasters and carved scroll brackets supporting a shell hood. The first-floor level windows have Juliet balconies and there are attic room windows. This Grade II listed building 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 become a family home. To the left is the entrance to The Geere House Open Air School, a small open-air school for tuberculous children 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. To the right of the photograph there is a ladder and scaffolding against the wall of the London Jewish Hospital which was established to serve the needs of the Jewish population in the East End. With its own synagogue and kitchens preparing kosher food, it was sold for redevelopment as a private clinic in 1979. The hospital and synagogue were demolished and the London Independent Hospital with a frontage on Beaumont Square constructed. Housing now occupies what was the Stepney Green frontage.
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