2015

TQ3781 : Sign for Hawgood Street E3, London Borough of Tower Hamlets

taken 8 years ago, near to Bow, Tower Hamlets, England

Sign for Hawgood Street E3, London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Sign for Hawgood Street E3, London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Up to the 1860s this area was industrial with pot ash manufacture. Hawgood, Eastward, Box, Furze and Gale Street were laid out and a July 1866 advertisement in London City Press shows the auction of the freehold ground-rents of 64 brick-built houses. A Hawgood Family website says the street was named after Robert Henry Hawgood, a sanitary engineer who worked installing the London sewer system.
In Booth's Map of Poverty 1886-1903 the street is: "BLACK: Lowest class. Vicious, semi-criminal." - occupied by "The lowest class which consists of some occasional labourers, street sellers, loafers, criminals and semi-criminals. Their life is the life of savages, with vicissitudes of extreme hardship and their only luxury is drink."
Hawgood Street had 22 houses on the north side and industrial premises on the south side, between the street and the Limehouse Cut. This layout persisted to the 1940s - there was only minor bomb damage, one house destroyed and the rest repairable blast damage. Since the 2nd World War the area has been totally redeveloped. There is now housing between Hawgood Street and the canal. The area north of Hawgood Street has been cleared and become a green space, Furze Green; the short Eastward Street and Box Street which ran across from Furze Street to Gale Street no longer exist.

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TQ3781, 217 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
David Hawgood   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 10 October, 2015   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 11 October, 2015
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 3746 8176 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:31.0826N 0:1.2151W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 3746 8176
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Northwest (about 315 degrees)
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