Images from across East London. By using public transport you can get to most areas of East London quickly. The following HDR images were shot by myself (or scanned in) whilst out exploring the area. Hope you enjoy them.
Click the thumbnail images for a large view of HDR East London! Photographs of Limehouse Basin, Woolwich Free Ferry, Millennium Mills, Royal Victoria Dock, Canary Wharf and lots more famous East London landmarks.
All images / photos are copyright Malcolm Oakley.
My great grandparents and my granddad lived on 14 Elphick St. I wonder if they knew each other. His name was John William Sage, Wife Ester Mary Anne (Hartlebury) and my granddad was William Andrew Patrick Sage. If you have any info, I would greatly appreciate it regarding the street, area, my granddad and/or his parents. I know very little about my great grandparents or granddad (he left at a young age).
thank you
Jason
Hello Jason Sage,
This information about your grandparents is from a family history site which is made public.
It was actually William Sage (1883-1953) who was your grandad, he was a dock worker all of his working life and it was he who married Esther Mary Hartlebury (1884-1964) in 1905, she was your grandmother and they had 8 children.
John William Sage (1880-1938) was Williams brother who married Annie Elizabeth Shelton (1882-1970).
It was John Sage (senior 1853-1813) who was their father and was your great-grandfather, who married Isabella Rebecca Moxon (1848-1934) your great-grandmother.
The family might have lived in Elphick Street at some time because they had lived at various addresses, but they did not appear there on any of the Census records. They could have lived there between the ten year gap dates of the Census dates 1861 to 1901.
My mum was born in Elphick Street in 1926 from a very long line of Canning Town people x her maiden name was Threadgill a very uncommon name but her mum was Grace Joyce and there were an awful lot of them about too. Also another long line of my family’s surnames were GRAVES, They according to my mum were very well known in that area. My mums family home was hit by the blast from Hallsville School and on that fateful night my mum’s direct family lost their home xx I love this site and have only just found it, I love reading all the posts xx
love your old phots i have an old photo from early 1900’s that i am very interested to find where it was it was around canning town as that was was heart of were Martha Cherry lived with John Cherry and my great Grandfather George alton Cherry.
This is were they lived:
237 Alnwich road Custom House Arthur crouch edith caroline crouch an my nan grace lilian crouch and her sisters arthur grace jack alice
119 randolph Road custom house Arthur crouch edith caroline crouch an my nan grace lilian crouch and and my aunts uncles
121 my uncle walter marsh i knew him as great uncle wol and he married Doris my aunt Dol.
from his ww 1 18.11.1917 discharge papers Arthur crouch 19 river Street a squiggle i couldnt read Brompton kent was bill posterer
78 Trinity Street custom house
42 Agate street west ham martha cherry
83 May street canning town john cherry martha cherry my great great nan1869 aged 42 on 1911 census and my great aunts alice ada (sadly never met ) and my great grandad very good ar making steam engines and built one that drove one was like a merry go round and kids could ride on he was also a good piano player.
Arthur crouch 1911 limetree terrace.eastbourne but moved to silvertown at some time.
they moved around a lot then to dodge the rent man they also lived around Custom House and Bethnel Green before like a lot of east enders ending up in Dagenham were my George William Cherry live nan Grace lilian i would add some photos but cant see how you do it. any info on the above would be much appreiated.
sorry the photo was of a sick animal clinic which Martha Cherry ran with a John Norman or John Cherry and when she died the pdsa sent a large reef so she did some good for them as well but not found out what.
Hi
My Great grandfather’s family had eel pie and mash shops and dinning rooms/Establisments in Edgeware Road 3 Middle Road South Knightbridge London around 1850’s Godfree’s. I am wondering if anyone knows of any information or pictures I would be able to find regarding Godfree’s.
Thank you,
Kind regards,
Donna Mills
Does anyone know of a calendar probably printed for the year 1990 that had a photo of Pop Freeman standing outside his shoe shop with the riggings of sailing ships over the roof?
I saw the photo in 1990 just before my elder brother
died but as I wasn’t into genealogy then I never paid too much attention.
So if anyone who knows if it’s existence please let me know.
Thank you