Brunswick Buildings in 1975
Contributed by Aileen Reid on July 28, 2016
Although the caption to this photograph looking west from Goulston Street
along the south side of New Goulston Street identifies this as Wentworth
Dwellings it shows, in fact, the portion of Brunswick Buildings that survived
the second world war. This extensive 1880s development of artisans' dwellings
occupied the south side of New Goulston Street and the west side of Goulston
Street south almost to Whitechapel High Street. Most of it was destroyed in
the war by a direct hit from a V1 rocket. The corner building in the
photograph is a 1950s addition replacing more minor damage. The bomb site
between Goulston Street and Middlesex Street was filled in the early 1960s by
the vast Cromlech House, itself currently (July 2016) being demolished.

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Brunswick Buildings
Contributed by maxim on Oct. 29, 2018
My maternal grandmother Eva Galgut, formerly Sacof, was born at 48 Brunswick
Buildings in 1896. The family name was Sacowski at this time and my great
grandparents were from Odessa. They came to London around 1892 and moved to
Bristol around 1900. Great grandpa Pineas Sacof was a cabinet maker.