All Contributions from Aileen Reid
Aileen Reid has worked as an historian on the Survey of London since 2005, and is in 2016-18 a research associate and web editor on the Whitechapel Project
Listed building description of 88 Whitechapel High Street
88 Whitechapel High Street | Aileen Reid
788/0/10224 WHITECHAPEL HIGH STREET 16-MAY-07 88 II Shop of 1950s, with two signs of 1934-5 by Arthur Szyk, in early C19 buildin…
Samuel Prevezer remembered
86 Whitechapel High Street | Aileen Reid
From The Worst it Can Be is a Disaster (2007), the autobiography of the theatre director Braham Murray (b. 1943): 'My m…
M.A. Kutchinsky Ltd
171 Commercial Road | Aileen Reid
No 171 Commercial Road was home from 1914 to c. 1959 of the jewellery business (shop and workshop) of the rabbinic scholar M.A. Kutchins…
Brady Street Mansions, site of Swanlea school, under demolition 1975
Swanlea Secondary School | Aileen Reid
Another Tower Hamlets Archives digitised slide, looking south down Brady Street towards the (Royal) London Hospital, with Brady Street M…
John Claridge's photographs of residents at Victoria Home, 1959-82
Victoria Court (Salvation Army Lifehouse), 177 Whitechapel Road | Aileen Reid
Between 1959 and 1982 the photographer John Claridge photographed the men and women who stayed in Victoria Home and Booth House, as desc…
Brunswick Buildings in 1975
Brunswick House | Aileen Reid
Although the caption to this photograph looking west from Goulston Street along the south side of New Goulston Street identifies this as…
The worst it can be is a disaster
92-3 Whitechapel High Street | Aileen Reid
From The Worst it Can Be is a Disaster (2007), the autobiography of the theatre director Braham Murray (b. 1943): 'This…
The Cherry Tree, c. 1885
111 Back Church Lane | Aileen Reid
From an album of photographs of pubs in the Historic England Archive (see archive.HistoricEngland.org.uk), taken by the Kensington-based co…
85 Whitechapel High Street
Former Ye Olde Angel pub, 85 Whitechapel High Street | Aileen Reid
The Perfume Warehouse, formerly the Angel public house, 85 Whitechapel High Street, with 1900 datestone
Proofmaster's house of the Worshipful Company of Gunmakers
The Proof House, 48-50 Commercial Road | Aileen Reid
Mid-18th-century house, largely rebuilt 1826
Brooke Bond welfare centre, 1932
Calcutta House annexe, Old Castle Street | Aileen Reid
A photograph of the Calcutta House Annexe as it was when newly built as a welfare, or social centre, for workers and managers at the Brooke…
St Paul, Dock Street, c. 1905
St Paul's Church | Aileen Reid
A coloured postcard showing St Paul and the Sailor's Home, since rebuilt
7 Dock Street seen c. 1905
Wombat's City Hostel (extension), 7 Dock Street | Aileen Reid
A coloured postcard showing the building on the site of the Wombat's extension, then part of the Sailors' Home
Whitechapel High Street and the hay market, c. 1895
Whitechapel High Street | Aileen Reid
The Whitechapel hay market was a longstanding feature of the High Street, and a source of traffic congestion that exasperated the local aut…
A Coronation Day party, and a television, at Bullen House, 1953
Greater Whitechapel: Bullen House | Aileen Reid
Frances Shillings remembers seeing the Queen's Coronation on television in 1953: 'My uncle built a TV which was no more than 9in of screen …
16-20 Middlesex Street, late 1950s
16 to 20 Middlesex Street | Aileen Reid
This image, by an amateur photographer, shows the east side of Middlesex Street and the stalls of Petticoat Lane market and Wentworth Dwell…
1860s Dock Street frontage of the Sailors' Home, c. 1905
Wombat's City Hostel, 7 Dock Street | Aileen Reid
A coloured postcard of the east side of Dock Street, c. 1905, showing the portion of the Sailors' Home built in 1863-5, which extended the …
Commercial Street Baptist Chapel, built 1854-5, dem. c. 1910
Kensington Apartments, 11 Commercial Street | Aileen Reid
An illustration from Ernest F. Kevan, 'London's Oldest Baptist Church' (1933), of the imposing Commercial Street Baptist chapel, built when…
36 Commercial Road, demolished 2015
36 Commercial Road | Aileen Reid
Victorian shop-house, built soon after road widening in Commercial Road in the 1870s, demolished for redevelopment in 2015
former proving chamber of the Gunmakers' Company
The Proof House, 48-50 Commercial Road | Aileen Reid
photographed from Gower's Walk, 2015
New Goulston Street and 48-105 Davis Mansions, c. 1960 (see archive.HistoricEngland.org.uk)
20-27 Wentworth Dwellings | Aileen Reid
This view of Petticoat Lane market, which then spread eastwards from Middlesex Street along New Goulston Street, was taken by the photogra…
Goulston Street swimming baths, c. 1910
former London Metropolitan University law and business school | Aileen Reid
Photograph from a postcard showing Petticoat Lane market stalls in Goulston Street with the swimming bath on the right (east side), 90-143 …
1957 Pathé newsreel about M.A. Kutchinsky Ltd, jewellers
171 Commercial Road | Aileen Reid
This newsreel features the jewellery business (shop and workshop) of the rabbinic scholar M.A. Kutchinsky (1874-1960), seen in the film (re…
Inside the Blind Beggar in the 1990s
The Blind Beggar public house | Aileen Reid
Silent footage from the 1990s inside the Blind Beggar - definitely before the smoking ban.
38 to 48 to Middlesex Street, rare colour footage of 1926
38 Middlesex Street | Aileen Reid
This film is only 26 seconds long but it is extremely early colour footage of Petticoat Lane Market, from the south end of Middlesex Street…
View inside studio flat at 74 Whitechapel High Street, 2010
74 Whitechapel High Street rear | Aileen Reid
estate agent video of the first-floor studio flat at 74 Whitechapel High Street, with views to 6-10 Osborn Street, and 65A to 68 Whitechape…
Jo Ann Wong film of her interview with Jaymin M Dhimar at Universal House
Universal House | Aileen Reid
Watney Street market, 1960s
Watney Street Market | Aileen Reid
This slow tracking shot northwards along the east side of Watney Street, Stepney, from the railway bridge just south of Martha Street to th…
Marc Isaacs 'Lift', (2001), two months spent getting to know the residents of Denning Point
Denning Point | Aileen Reid
The site of Aldgate Tower in the 1960s
Aldgate Tower | Aileen Reid
This film about traffic congestion, mostly in London, includes a shot looking west along the west end of Whitechapel High Street towards St…
Short Whitechapel Gallery film about its own history
Whitechapel Gallery, 77–82 Whitechapel High Street | Aileen Reid
Pathé newsreel about This is Tomorrow exhibition, 1956
Whitechapel Gallery, 77–82 Whitechapel High Street | Aileen Reid
Film of the 'Mail Rail' that terminated at Whitechapel, 1932
East London Mail Centre and E1 Delivery Office | Aileen Reid
The underground mail rail, which ran until 2003, seen in a newsreel from 1932, five years after it opened.
Newsreel about teenagers making art at the Whitechapel Gallery, 1963
Whitechapel Gallery, 77–82 Whitechapel High Street | Aileen Reid
Short British Movietone film shows local teenagers making art on Saturday mornings in the Whitechapel Gallery
The north side of Whitechapel Road in 2006
Whitechapel Market, Whitechapel Road | Aileen Reid
by Sophia Fernandez via YouTube. This brief amateur footage from July 2006 pans back and forth across the north side of Whitechapel Road,…
Silent film of Amelia Earhart visiting Toynbee Hall, 1928
Toynbee Hall | Aileen Reid
This British Pathé newsreel from the silent film era features the American aviator Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) in Whitechapel on 25 June 192…
A fleeting glimpse of war-damaged Toynbee Hall
Toynbee Hall | Aileen Reid
This short home movie from the late 1960s has shots of various parts of East and South London, including at 00.05 to 00.12 on the timer, sh…
Hessel Street, 1960s
Greater Whitechapel: Hessel Street east side | Aileen Reid
This atmospheric unissued footage of Stepney in the 1960s includes sharp, atmospheric footage of Christian Street synagogue, and, at 1.33 o…
North side of Cable Street in the 1960s
Sapphire Court, 1 Ensign Street | Aileen Reid
This silent offcut of film from the 1960s is a long tracking shot taken from a vehicle from opposite 18-34 Noble Court (on the south side) …
Two American students' view of Whitechapel market in 2010
Whitechapel Market, Whitechapel Road | Aileen Reid
from YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMvSb8bVRQQ
Estate agent's video showing interior of flat in Kensington Apartments and views north and east, February 2016
Kensington Apartments, 11 Commercial Street | Aileen Reid
Window art project, 83 Whitechapel High Street, 2014
83 Whitechapel High Street | Aileen Reid
by kitsune, from Vimeo Lucia Fioretti/kitsuneart decorates the window of ExMouth Coffee Company, 83 Whitechapel High Steeet, as part of t…
Petticoat Lane market in February 2014
Petticoat Lane Market | Aileen Reid
This clear amateur footage is a snapshot of Petticoat Lane Sunday market on 16 February 2014, showing Wentworth Street, Middlesex Street an…
Promotional video about interior design of private flats at 1 Commercial Street, 2014
The Relay Building, 1 Commercial Street | Aileen Reid
via YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEYA_9lCEkI
Amateur film about George Yard Buildings and its Jack the Ripper connection
Sunley House | Aileen Reid
This atmospheric (if rather shaky) amateur footage by a Jack the Ripper tour guide, takes us from Whitechapel High Street, showing a number…
Inside the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, 1966
Whitechapel Bell Foundry, 32–34 Whitechapel Road | Aileen Reid
Brief Pathé newsreel showing the casting and tuning of a bell in Whitechapel Bell Foundry in 1966
Brief glimpse of Gardiner's Corner and Whitechapel High Street in 1924
Whitechapel High Street | Aileen Reid
This silent film about the Regent's Canal includes a brief panning shot (at 2.11 to 2.24 on the YouTube timer) of the south side of Whitech…
A walk west to east through Whitechapel Market, December 2015
Whitechapel Market, Whitechapel Road | Aileen Reid
by Jahangir Alam via YouTube
Unveiling the war memorial at St Mary Matfelon, 1917
Altab Ali Park, including the site of the parish church of St Mary Matfelon | Aileen Reid
Wilton's Music Hall in 2009: 'Cipher', by Neil Wissink
Wilton's Music Hall | Aileen Reid
a film by Neil Wissink, from Vimeo - https://vimeo.com/12489248
Altab Ali Park in 2009 before relandscaping in 2011
Altab Ali Park, including the site of the parish church of St Mary Matfelon | Aileen Reid
from YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cApAoCW37G8. This amateur film, showing Altab Ali Park before it was relandscaped in 2011, …
Nat Roos speaking in the synagogue, 2011
Former Fieldgate Street Great Synagogue | Aileen Reid
An interesting piece of amateur film shows Nat Roos addressing the congregation at the Great Synagogue about its history and memories of Je…
Choral Selichot service at the Fieldgate Street Great Synagogue, 2011
Former Fieldgate Street Great Synagogue | Aileen Reid
1911 unveiling of the Edward VII memorial in Whitechapel Road
Whitechapel Market, Whitechapel Road | Aileen Reid
Short silent newsreel film of the unveiling of the drinking fountain, paid for by donations from the Jewish community, in memory of Edward …
St Mary's tube station
Ibis Budget Hotel (formerly Brunning House) | Aileen Reid
Short film of stills showing the remains of St Mary's underground station. This opened in 1884 and closed in April 1938 because of the immi…
Whitechapel Market in the mid 1990s
Whitechapel Market, Whitechapel Road | Aileen Reid
This footage from around 20 years ago, with a lot of fixed-camera shots, shows the Grave Maurice when it was still a pub, and the frontages…
East London Mosque film of interior of Great Synagogue
Former Fieldgate Street Great Synagogue | Aileen Reid
A short film made by the ELM showing many of the rooms within the Great Synagogue, at the time that the Mosque was acquiring the building i…
Petticoat Lane in the 1960s
Petticoat Lane Market | Aileen Reid
This amateur colour footage from the early 1960s shows the extent then of Petticoat Lane market, with shots of Wentworth Street, Goulston S…
Whitechapel bell foundry in the 1920s
Whitechapel Bell Foundry, 32–34 Whitechapel Road | Aileen Reid
A comparison between this brief silent newsreel and those of 1954, 1966 and 2014 shows how little changes in the techniques of bell-making
Brief film showing the East London mosque in the 1980s
East London Mosque | Aileen Reid
This brief clip from a documentary or news report from around 30 years ago includes a panning shot from west to east from a building on Com…
Visit by the Prince of Wales to CWS Leman Street, 1924
Sterling Mansions | Aileen Reid
Silent Pathé newsreel showing a visit on 3 March 1924 by the then-Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII, to the headquarters of the Co-operati…
William Hughes tuning a bell at the foundry, 1954
Whitechapel Bell Foundry, 32–34 Whitechapel Road | Aileen Reid
Short film about the foundry, showing the shaping of bell clappers, and the company's owner, William Hughes, tuning a large bell.
Petticoat Lane market at the beginning of the 20th century
Petticoat Lane Market | Aileen Reid
From the British Film Institute archive, silent (of course) footage of Petticoat Lane market more than 100 years ago. Not much architectura…
Compilation of film of Class War protests about segregation of social tenants at 1 Commercial Street
The Relay Building, 1 Commercial Street | Aileen Reid
via Scrap Records, on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQhgsSHPZzY. In 2014-15 the pressure group Class War organised a series of…
Newsreel offcuts showing 117 to 137 Whitechapel High Street in 1958
Whitechapel High Street | Aileen Reid
This collection of unused (silent) newsreel footage of London includes, at 6.03 to 6.51 on the YouTube timer, an atmospheric view, taken fr…
Postcards from East London dance/film project: Whitechapel Market, 2012
Whitechapel Market, Whitechapel Road | Aileen Reid
uploaded by Jo Parkes, from vimeo: "Postcards from... is an international dance/film project in which teams of artists work with community…