Houses and shops in West India Dock Road
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Houses and shops in West India Dock Road
Houses and shops in West India Dock Road
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SC_PHL_01_295_64_6686 (Collage 99243)
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London Metropolitan Archives: LCC Photograph Library
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View of front elevations of two and three-storey early nineteenth-century shops and houses at 24-32 West India Dock Road, Limehouse. Number 26 has floral curtains. Number 24 is part of a shop with a jacket and pair of trousers on sale hanging from the wall. Number 28 is a restaurant. Number 30 is Higgins Brothers tobacconists with advertisement for Player's Cigarettes. Number 30-32 is the office of the British Sailors Society with its van parked outside. The British Sailors Society (later re-named Sailors Society) is a Christian welfare charity for seamen founded by Baptist minister Rev George Charles Smith at the City of London Tavern in 1818. Parked car and van. The buildings were later demolished and a large four-storey apartment building was built on part of the site in late 1990s or early 2000s.
View of front elevations of two and three-storey early nineteenth-century shops and houses at 24-32 West India Dock Road, Limehouse. Number 26 has floral curtains. Number 24 is part of a shop with a jacket and pair of trousers on sale hanging from the wall. Number 28 is a restaurant. Number 30 is Higgins Brothers tobacconists with advertisement for Player's Cigarettes. Number 30-32 is the office of the British Sailors Society with its van parked outside. The British Sailors Society (later re-named Sailors Society) is a Christian welfare charity for seamen founded by Baptist minister Rev George Charles Smith at the City of London Tavern in 1818. Parked car and van. The buildings were later demolished and a large four-storey apartment building was built on part of the site in late 1990s or early 2000s.
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