View of Goodman's Yard
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View of Goodman's Yard
View of Goodman's Yard
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SC_PHL_01_390_77_35_390B_29 (Collage 121211)
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London Metropolitan Archives: LCC Photograph Library
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A view of Goodman's Yard, Whitechapel, looking west from Mansell Street, towards The Minories and trains parked at platforms in Fenchurch Street Station. Goodman's Yard can be seen to be cobbled and there are numerous cars parked on adjacent plots of land which are derelict due to severe bombing during World War II. The vacant plot in the foreground, with a large hoarding advertising Embassy No1, was the site of a goods and parcel office of The London & South Western Railway, and also of The George public house, which stood on the corner of Mansell Street under a curved lattice viaduct that carried the Haydon Square extension of the London & North Eastern Railway. The large plot of land on the left, running alongside the viaduct of the London & Blackwall Railway into Fenchurch Street Station, was a goods depot for the Great Eastern Railway. Goodman's Yard is now merely a four-lane street running east between Minories and Mansell Street, part of a one-way traffic system. An office block was built between the southern edge of the realigned Goodman's Yard and the railway viaduct, and this has latterly been converted into a Travelodge. Bus stands for the 'Heritage 15 Route' sit outside. The tower of the Port of London Authority building in Trinity Square can be seen in the distance, beyond a tall office block.
A view of Goodman's Yard, Whitechapel, looking west from Mansell Street, towards The Minories and trains parked at platforms in Fenchurch Street Station.
Goodman's Yard can be seen to be cobbled and there are numerous cars parked on adjacent plots of land which are derelict due to severe bombing during World War II.
The vacant plot in the foreground, with a large hoarding advertising Embassy No1, was the site of a goods and parcel office of The London & South Western Railway, and also of The George public house, which stood on the corner of Mansell Street under a curved lattice viaduct that carried the Haydon Square extension of the London & North Eastern Railway.
The large plot of land on the left, running alongside the viaduct of the London & Blackwall Railway into Fenchurch Street Station, was a goods depot for the Great Eastern Railway.
Goodman's Yard is now merely a four-lane street running east between Minories and Mansell Street, part of a one-way traffic system. An office block was built between the southern edge of the realigned Goodman's Yard and the railway viaduct, and this has latterly been converted into a Travelodge. Bus stands for the 'Heritage 15 Route' sit outside. The tower of the Port of London Authority building in Trinity Square can be seen in the distance, beyond a tall office block.
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