6 Cable Street

1898, shophouse

6 Cable Street
Contributed by Survey of London on March 5, 2019

6 Cable Street was built in 1898 for Matthew Lee, an oilman of Aldgate High Street and Exmouth Street, by W. Taylor of Percy Road. It was occupied briefly by Philip Feldmesser, a grocer, before Herman Koster then Henry John Van Zyl followed with refreshment rooms. The Missions to Seamen Institute was here briefly around 1920, then C. Freimuller & Sons, butchers, until about 1970.1


  1. London Metropolitan Archives, District Surveyors Returns: Post Office Directories: London County Council Minutes, 5 July 1898, p. 814 

6-14 Cable Street from the north-west in 2017
Contributed by Derek Kendall

6–14 Cable Street from the north-west in 2018
Contributed by Derek Kendall

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