15 Osborn Street
Contributed by Survey of London on Oct. 4, 2019
No. 15 Osborn Street (previously 15A) is a tiny single-storey café, built in 1951–2, with a long rear range, now derelict. The architect was Carl Fisher and use was by surgical-instrument polishers in the 1950s to the ’70s when a former boilermaker’s house of around 1850 still stood to the rear as No. 15, housing Arthur Blooman, a watchcase-maker. The Whitechapel Gallery’s extension displaced this in the early 1980s. The front building was altered in 1984 to be a sandwich bar. Since about 2012 it has been the Love in a Cup café.1
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The National Archives, IR58/84800/1754: Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives, WG/2/20/1–2; Building Control file 15077: Goad insurance maps: Post Office Directories ↩
view to 15 Osborn Street at back of yard in the early 1970s (photograph by Dan Cruickshank)
Contributed by Dan Cruickshank
Cafe at 15 Osborn Street, Stolen Space Gallery at 17, and rear entrance to Whitechapel Gallery
Contributed by Derek Kendall
15 Osborn Street in the early 1970s (photograph by Dan Cruickshank)
Contributed by Dan Cruickshank