On the 1790s edition of Horwood's map of London, 'Maud's Sugar House' is named, abutting the Royalty Theatre in Well St (the old name fo…
'On Monday night, about nine o'clock, the greatest excitement was created in the immediate neighbourhood of Whitechapel, by a most destr…
The Universal British Directory lists William Mears, bellfounder, at 32 Whitechapel Road (formerly no.267) in the late eighteenth centur…
Quotation from Survey of London: Volume 27, Spitalfields and Mile End New Town. "This school was built for the London …
In the early 1750s, on the SW corner of the school site, stood the sugarhouse of John Arney. It backed onto Well Street (Ensign Street),…
Prior to the school being built the site was used for sugar refining for much of the 19th century. Horwood's early map c.1799 …
The building continues its use as an establishment for education and training, having been opened in 1896 as the Deal Street E…
In the early 1830s John Hodgson moved into a new sugarhouse at the bottom end of Dock Street.[^1] As the biggest danger in the trade was…
The 1873 map layer shows that the Maryam Centre sits squarely on the site of a sugar refinery, the later development of which took it al…
Tucked away in the archive of the late Bristol sugar researcher Mr I. V. Hall at Bristol Archives is a simple plan, dated 1856, of the s…
'A two-house sugar refinery and warehouses, Whitechapel ... extensive freehold and leasehold premises ... situate in Osborn St, having a…
The footprint of the present building covers ten or so houses, shown on Horwood's map of 1813 to have been fronting Whitechapel Road. Cu…
On the east side of Gower's Walk on the corner of what is now Commercial Road (formerly part of Church Lane) stood a sugarhouse. It was …
Horwood's early map c.1799 shows only four small buildings, likely houses, at the east corner of Church St (later Hanbury St) and Deal St (…