No. 95 New Road was built in 1883–4 following condemnation of the northernmost of Thomas Barnes's Gloucester Terrace houses of the 1790s on this site. The two-bay rear section to Fieldgate Street was built first by G. Ellis of Walden Street, followed by the front part, built by W. Taylor, of Shepherd’s Bush. The single-storey lock-up shop on Fieldgate Street was inserted in 1924. By the early 1930s the main ground-floor space to New Road was F. Garetta’s dining rooms. Michael Baldacci succeeded around 1950 and the establishment came to be known as Mick’s Café into the 1980s. It is now the Shalamar Kebab House, a comparably workaday South Asian canteen.1
London Metropolitan Archives, District Surveyors Returns: Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives, Building Control file 41143: Post Office Directories ↩