Tower Hamlets Collection (#10)

Statue of a girl scholar beside the door, Hamlet of Ratcliff Schools, Stepney, London, 1945
Statue of a girl scholar beside the door, Hamlet of Ratcliff Schools, 51 White Horse Road, Stepney, London, 1945. Small sculpture in a Gothic-style niche of a girl in Victorian dress

Broad tree-lined street with tramlines, Burdett Road, Stepney, London, 1912. Horses and carts are the only traffic on this comparatively empty street of four-storey terraced houses

Men standing in the cutting shield, Rotherhithe Tunnel, Stepney, London, August 1907. Front view of the shield with workmen standing in compartments where the shield partly emerged into Shaft 4

Replacing an old gas main, Commercial Street, London, 1906
Replacing an old gas main, Commercial Street, Stepney, London, 1906. Works during tramway electrification: replacing an old 48-inch gas main with a new one at the junction of Whitechapel High Street

Spitalfields silk weaving industry, Alma Road, Bethnal Green, London, 1909. Interior of a textile works showing revolving drums and a spreading out machine. A man is seated in the background

Assembly in the playground, Jews Free School, Stepney, London, 1908. Boys lined up for a mass assembly in the school playground

Shaft for descent to the entrance of the Thames Tunnel (view from the top), London, 1831. The Thames Tunnel, connecting Wapping and Rotherhithe, was the first underwater tunnel in the world

The Free Russian Library and reading room, 15 Whitechapel Road, Stepney, London, c1901 (1901). The Free Russian Library was set up by Aleksei Teplov

Christ Church, Spitalfields, London, 1817. Artist: Thomas Higham
Christ Church, Spitalfields, London, 1817. Built between 1714 and 1729, the church was designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor. It is regarded as possibly the finest of the so-called Commissioners Churches

Execution of the Earl of Strafford, c1641, (1903). Artist: Wenceslaus Hollar
Execution of the Earl of Strafford, c1641, (1903). Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593-1641) was Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1632 until 1639, establishing a strong authoritarian rule

The Execution of Dudley Earl of Leicester, 1859. English nobleman and close friend and suitor of Elizabeth I. Patron of the Puritan movement and a Protestant condemned to death on the scaffold

The Press-Gang: Seizing a Waterman on Tower Hill on the Morning of His Marriage, (1878). After Alexander Johnston (1815?1891)

The Sons of Edward IV Parted from their Mother, by Richard Duke of Gloucester, June 16th 1483, ( Artist: W Ridgway)
The Sons of Edward IV Parted from their Mother, by Richard Duke of Gloucester, June 16th 1483, (1878). Edward V (1470-1483) and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York (1473-1483)

The Firemen Were At The Forefront Of Danger, 1941 (1942). Firemen fighting a blaze in the East India Docks during the Blitz of World War II. From Frontline 1940-1941

The Tower Bridge, 1915, (c1900-1930). From London Post Card Album Collection [London, c1900-1920]

From Limehouse Pier, 1873, (1894). Artist: Herbert Menzies Marshall
From Limehouse Pier, 1873, (1894). From The Studio Volume 3. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1894]

Inside Medland Hall homeless shelter, Ratcliff, London, c1900 (1901). The four penny coffin, a homeless shelter which charged its clients different amounts depending on the amenities offered

The sandpit, Victoria Park, London, c1900 (1901). Victoria Park in Londons East End opened in 1845. From Living London, Vol. 1, edited by George R. Sims

Receiving an accident case at Poplar Hospital, London, c1903 (1903).The Poplar Hospital for Accidents opened in 1858 on East India Road under the patronage of the Quaker banker

Kitchen in a single womens lodging house, Spitalfields, London, c1903 (1903). From Living London, Vol. II, by George R. Sims. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1903]

Commencing work, Osborn Street, Whitechapel, London, c1903 (1903). From Living London, Vol. III, by George R. Sims. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1903]

Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula, overlooking Tower Green, London, c1737 (1904). The Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula the parish church of the Tower of London

The Thames at Limehouse, c1780. Artist: Johann Ziegler
The Thames at Limehouse, c1780. After Dominic Serres (1722?1793). From Old Ship Prints by E. Keble Chatterton. [John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, London & New York, 1927]

Stepney Church, c1792. From The Environs of London, by Daniel Lysons [T. Cadell, Junior & W. Davies, , c1792.]

The Quest, in which Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail in September 1921, on what was to prove his last expedition to the Antarctic, c1922, (1935)

Thames Police (formerly called Wapping Wharf, 1859, (1903). Artist: James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Thames Police (formerly called Wapping Wharf, 1859, (1903). From The Pall Mall Magazine Volume XXXI, edited by George R. Halkett. [Editorial and Publishing Offices, London, 1903]

Limehouse, 1859, (1904). Artist: James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Limehouse, 1859, (1904). From Whistler As I Knew Him, by Mortimer Menpes. [Adam and Charles Black, London, 1904]

Jewish Synagogue, Spitalfields, 1935. Artist: William Rothenstein
Jewish Synagogue, Spitalfields, 1935. After the painting by Sir Wiliam Rothenstein. From Modern Masterpieces Part 6. [George Newnes Ltd, London, 1935]

The Tower of London From Tower Bridge. 1902. Artist: Thomas Robert Way
The Tower of London From Tower Bridge. 1902. From Ancient Royal Palaces in and Near London. [John Lane, London and New York, 1902]

A room of c1740 from 63, Mansell Street, c1740
A room of c1740 from 63, Mansell Street. From The Connoisseur Volume LXXXIV, edited by C. Reginald Grundy. [The Connoisseur Ltd, London, 1929]

Chimneypiece with Arms of James I, circa 1606: from the Old Palace, Bromley-By-Bow, 1945. Bromley Old Palace was built in 1606 for James I

Crowd watching the looting of a German house in Poplar, c1914
A crowd watching the looting of a German house in Poplar, c1914. Anti-German feeling in the United Kingdom led to infrequent rioting

Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, Tower of London, 2014. Artist: Sheldon Marshall
Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, Tower of London, 2014. The installation marks one hundred years since the first full day of Britains involvement in the First World War

The Progress of Steam - A view in White Chapel Road, 1905. Artist: Henry Thomas Alken
The Progress of Steam - A view in White Chapel Road, 1830. A variety of steam vehicles being driven around White Chapel Road, London, illustrating the artists predictions for the modern steam age

St. Dunstans Stepney. From a View taken in 1803. Artist: Walter Thornbury
St.Dunstans Stepney. From a View taken in 1803.Engraving from Old and New London Volume 2.by Walter Thornbury.Published by Cassell, Petter and Galpin, 1878

Ronald Ronnie Kray (1933-1995). 1966, (2013). Artist: Karen Humpage
Ronald Ronnie Kray (1933-1995). The Krays were the chief perpetrators of organised crime in the East End of London during the 1950s and 1960s

Reggie Kray, 1966, (2013). Artist: Karen Humpage
Reginald Reggie Kray (1933-2000). The Krays were the chief perpetrators of organised crime in the East End of London during the 1950s and 1960s

The Kray Twins, 1966, (2013). Artist: Karen Humpage
The Kray Twins, 1966, (2013). Twin brothers Ronald Ronnie Kray (1933-1995) and Reginald Reggie Kray (1933-2000). The Krays were the chief perpetrators of organised crime in the East End of London

The Tower of London at night, late 19th or early 20th century. Lantern slide

Ancient and Modern at the Tower of London, 20th century. Stereoscope Camerascope card detail

Jews Hospital, Mile End Road, Whitechapel, London, late 18th or early 19th century. Artist: Thomas Prattent
Jews Hospital, Mile End Road, Whitechapel, London, late 18th or early 19th century

Sunday market, Wentworth Street, East London, c1930s. A print from Countries of the World, edited by JA Hammerton, volume IV, The Fleetway House, c1930s

The Tower of London, c1930s. Artist: Donald McLeish
The Tower of London, c1930s. On its completion in 1097 the tower provided accommodation for the king, but in later centuries was used as a prison, armoury and military store

Standoff on Sidney Street, Stepney, London, 3rd January 1911 (1937). Artist: Central Press
Standoff on Sidney Street, Stepney, London, 3rd January 1911 (1937). The Sidney Street siege occurred after a gang of heavily armed Latvian burglars shot five police officers who attempted to arrest

Tower of London, c late 19th century. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Tower of London, late 19th century. On its completion in 1097 the tower provided accommodation for the king, but in later centuries was used as a prison, armoury and military store

Tower Gateway, Tower of London, 1815. Artist: Sands
Tower Gateway, Tower of London, 1815. A print from The Beauties of England and Wales or Delineations Topographical Historical and Descriptive, Vol X Part III. John Harris, St Paul Churchyard, London

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