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coffins discovered under Faircloughs
59 Gower's Walk | eric
Memories of Eric Shorter, b. 1936 At one time, parts of Fairclough offices suffered wall subsidence, and builders were called in…
The pigeon slaughterer of Gower's Walk
Flats 1 to 12, 63 Gower's Walk | eric
Memories of Eric Shorter, b. 1936 Many times I saw a man with bulging pockets in Aldgate. One pocket bulged with permits from ma…
Memories of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway goods warehouse, 1940s
Flats 1 to 12, 63 Gower's Walk | eric
Memories of Eric Shorter, b. 1936 Looking out from my bedroom window at 49 Gower's Walk I could see the Tilbury building opposit…
Petticoat Lane and Tubby Isaacs' jellied eel stall, 1940s
Petticoat Lane Market | eric
Memories of Eric Shorter, b. 1936 Another of our regular week-end outings was to Petticoat Lane at its original site in Middlese…
Ladies of the night in Gower's Walk, 1940s
Flats 1 to 12, 63 Gower's Walk | eric
Memories of Eric Shorter, b. 1936 At the week-ends, Faircloughs vehicles seemed to work less, and hence on a Saturday night meat…
Gower's Walk of the 1950s remembered
Flats 1–58, 120 Gower's Walk | eric
Memories of Eric Shorter, b. 1936 As I walked it, ran it, cycled it, the Gowers Walk that I knew in the early 1950s was structur…
Gardiner's Corner
Aldgate Place | eric
I remember Gardiner's (of Gardiner's Corner fame), and lived in Aldgate (East) in the early 1950's. My mum bought me some socks there on…
No 'Coal Hole'
49 Gower's Walk | eric
This is about the previous property at 49 Gowers Walk, not the one present in 2016. When my family lived there in the 1940's and 1950's,…
Foot-boards at the Back Church Lane wool warehouses
The Loom, 101 Back Church Lane | eric
Memories of Eric Shorter, b. 1936 Many of the great warehouses around Aldgate and the river had sets of double opening doors ali…
Premierland to Fairclough's Garage
129 Back Church Lane | eric
Before this current building, the site held two garages used by the Fairclough company of meat transporters to service their fleet of tr…
Woolworths
102 to 105 Whitechapel High Street and 2 Commercial Street | eric
I lived near to this building (in nearby Gower's Walk, in fact) when I was aged 10 onwards, in 1946 or thereabouts. At that time it was…
Memories of shopping in war-time Cable Street
Sapphire Court, 1 Ensign Street | eric
Memories of Eric Shorter, b. 1936 My mum did the ‘weekly’ shop in Cable Street, where we used a greengrocers and a Yiddisher gro…
German church at the Old Pump House
Old Pump House, 19-20 Hooper Street | eric
I knew the Pump House site well as a child, but not was there before it was constructed. I have a paper from Germany about a particular …
The frightening 'sticky-out bit' in Gower's Walk
Chandlery House, 40 Gower's Walk | eric
Memories of Eric Shorter, b. 1936 Still in existence, the warehouse near the bottom of Gower's Walk on its eastern side had a sm…
The east side of Gower's Walk in the 1950s remembered
Chandlery House, 40 Gower's Walk | eric
Memories of Eric Shorter, b. 1936 As I walked it, ran it, cycled it, the Gowers Walk that I knew in the early 1950s was structur…
Gower's Walk soap factory
48 Gower's Walk | eric
I lived at no. 49 Gower’s Walk in the early 1950s and no. 48 was a soap factory at that time. According to Trade Directories, it was own…
Site of entrance to London, Tilbury and Southend Railway goods shed
46 Commercial Road | eric
Memories of Eric Shorter, b. 1936 The Tilbury Warehouse had an entrance in Commercial Road just to the right of The Gunmakers Pr…
Living at 49 Gower's Walk
49 Gower's Walk | eric
Circa 1952, no. 49 Gower’s Walk belonged to Messrs Faircloughs the meat transporters, and at ground level consisted only of a pair of la…
Before Hooper Square
Hooper Square, 31–83 Back Church Lane and 32–52 Hooper Street | eric
Before the building of Hooper Square in the mid-1990s, at least a small part of Hooper Street where Hooper Square is now contained the m…
Bike and battery shop
Aldgate Tower | eric
Not this building, but when I lived in Aldgate at the age of 11 or so (1947) there was a wide pavement here along which I would walk to…
Unsavoury memories of public urinals
The Proof House, 48-50 Commercial Road | eric
Memories of Eric Shorter, b. 1936 On the Tilbury side of Gower's Walk, there was another feature, at the top in a corner made by…
The site of Webb's Place, Gower's Walk, in the early 1950s
44 Gower's Walk | eric
Memories of Eric Shorter, b. 1936 As I walked it, ran it, cycled it, the Gower's Walk that I knew in the early 1950s was structu…
The mysterious depths of the Hooper Street railway bridge
Old Pump House, 19-20 Hooper Street | eric
Memories of Eric Shorter, b. 1936 I walked Hooper Street often, either taking left or right from Gower's Walk. Left was easy, a …
The discomfort of cycling over cobbles in the 1940s
49 Gower's Walk | eric
Memories of Eric Shorter, b. 1936 Early on my parents bought me a sit-up-and-beg bike. When I wore that out, they bought me a se…
A narrow escape at the old 49 Gower's Walk in the 1940s
49 Gower's Walk | eric
Memories of Eric Shorter, b. 1936 Ours was the top-floor flat, with interesting storage places beneath the sloping roof. The flo…
The flats at the old 49 Gower's Walk, 1940s
49 Gower's Walk | eric
Memories of Eric Shorter, b. 1936 Examination of Ordnance Survey maps from the 1950s show a structure marked with a cross where …
Faircloughs yards and the east side of Gower's Walk in the early 1950s
49 Gower's Walk | eric
Memories of Eric Shorter, b. 1936 As I walked it, ran it, cycled it, the Gower's Walk that I knew in the early 1950s was structu…
Entrance to Fairclough's yards on site of 52 and 53 Gower's Walk, 1950s
53 Gower's Walk | eric
Memories of Eric Shorter, b. 1936 As I walked it, ran it, cycled it, the Gower's Walk that I knew in the early 1950s was structu…
Loom House in 1950
The Loom, 101 Back Church Lane | eric
I walked past the Gowers Walk side of this building as a child at weekends in the 1950s. The brickwork was intact, but a bit dowdy and d…
Hooper Square as was
Hooper Square, 31–83 Back Church Lane and 32–52 Hooper Street | eric
I walked around the walls that once bounded what is now Hooper Square many times as an early teenager in the 1950s. Back then the walls …
Pump house
Old Pump House, 19-20 Hooper Street | eric
I lived in Gowers Walk in the early 1950s, and walked past the Pump House weekly en route to the Cable Street shops with 'mum'. At the t…
Working Inside Loom House
The Loom, 101 Back Church Lane | eric
Photo of a group of Browne & Eagle staff assessing imported wool quality, somewhere inside Loom House in the early years. Note all are…
View of the entrance to Browne & Eagle wool warehouse
Hooper Square, 31–83 Back Church Lane and 32–52 Hooper Street | eric
Image of the 'front entrance' to Browne & Eagle wool importers. The building always had a clean and pleasant look.
Browne & Eagle in Loom House
The Loom, 101 Back Church Lane | eric
View of Loom House from south end of Gower's Walk, when it was used by Browne & Eagle for storing/assessing bales of imported wool. The…
Tilbury warehouse
49 Gower's Walk | eric
In the 1950/1960s my bedroom faced the east wall of the giant Tilbury Warehouse. I could not see in - its windows were never clean. But thi…
Plan of Fairclough's Yard, c. 1950
53 Gower's Walk | eric
This schematic plan by Eric Shorter (b. 1936) shows the layout of the yard of T.M. Fairclough, meat hauliers, as it was around 1950 when he…