mark99 Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 (edited) Edited February 15, 2022 by mark99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek R. Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 (edited) Nice shots. The second looks like the River Lea, and the Gas Works just North of East India Dock. The covered cart with BREAD STREET on: Bread Street is just off Cheapside in the City. Edited February 15, 2022 by Derek R. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark99 Posted February 15, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 19 minutes ago, Derek R. said: Nice shots. The second looks like the River Lea, and the Gas Works just North of East India Dock. The covered cart with BREAD STREET on: Bread Street is just off Cheapside in the City. Think you may be right - second image has no towpath and looks too wide? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackrose Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 (edited) Also it clearly says London Borough of Newham which might be a clue that it isn't Kings Cross! 😋 Edited February 15, 2022 by blackrose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUMPY Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 First one is taken from York Way . As it is today https://maps.app.goo.gl/n5Lg3QWr5VgezVWd8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek R. Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, mark99 said: Think you may be right - second image has no towpath and looks too wide? I would suggest the lighters and gas works might be those in the vicinity of what is now being called Aberfeldy Village and of course the East India Dock has been built over and now has the University of the West standing on the site of the dock: https://tinyurl.com/36mbbvwj Here is part of a page from Bartholomews Greater London Atlas published in 1954. The area ringed in orange might be the place from which the photograph was taken: This map from 1954 may not show all the gas holders on site, and the camera could have been pointed in a North Easterly direction from Leven Road, with gas holders not shown on the map, but which may have been on the Northern bank and part of the Imperial Gas Works site. Another map, 1937 - 1961, showing two possible gas holders on the North bank. I would suggest the orange arrow is the direction of the camera shot. Edited February 15, 2022 by Derek R. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark99 Posted February 15, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 The gas holders are either Bow Common or Bromley by Bow I think in the second image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark99 Posted February 15, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 I found this eventually ref location of gasworks. West Ham Gas Works, which are Stratford way. At the end of a quiet little street turning out of the main road, just past Stratford Market Station Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek R. Posted February 16, 2022 Report Share Posted February 16, 2022 Well done Mark! I had a little trouble with that to begin with, but pawing over old maps found the location. The photographer must have been on the lighter, but this map shows the probable location: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=51.53431&lon=-0.00147&layers=10&b=1 This is a partial transparency image of the area. We are 'on' the Channelsea River, which today is a path at that point starting from 'Greenway'. The orange arrow points in the direction the camera is being pointed, and the two blue lines the general view seen in the photo. Virtually unrecognisable today. https://tinyurl.com/2ruaxvkn How's this for a bit of Gas Works walling? From a section along Abbey Lane. https://tinyurl.com/2p8ud3dm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnetman Posted February 16, 2022 Report Share Posted February 16, 2022 (edited) I walk past another old gas works site regularly in Stepney. Never thought about the wall before as being specifically Gas works related Nice wall. Bridge over the Regents section. Looks like same wall in this old picture Edited February 16, 2022 by magnetman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark99 Posted February 16, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2022 53 minutes ago, Derek R. said: Well done Mark! What is ironic is I used to walk from Stratford Station to Stratford Gas works regularly when I was an apprentice in the 70's! I used short cuts down little alleyways alongside the backwaters too. The formal entrance was Union Street I think. I should have ruddy known! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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