27 Whitechapel Road
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1926-7 shophouse, first used to accommodate a restaurant, Higgins & Thomerson, architects

27 Whitechapel Road
Contributed by Survey of London on March 29, 2017

This building of 1926–7 was erected to designs by Higgins & Thomerson, architects, and first occupied in part by Isaac Woolf Silberstein for restaurant premises. Its predecessor, the premises of a manufacturing stationer, had from 1909 housed a cinema (‘Picture Palace’) run by Solomon Czershorski. Much earlier, in the 1780s, John Philip Webber, a sailcloth weaver, was the occupant of the building on this site.1

  1. District Surveyors Returns: London County Council Minutes, 2 April 1912, p.843: The National Archives, IR58/84805/2224: Post Office Directories: Land Tax: Census ↩

27 Whitechapel Road
Contributed by Derek Kendall

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