Mecca, Statues, Bakers Ladders, Timber… Persevering with my stroll on Sunday September third 1989 which had begun in Stratford, from which some photos appeared in my website and self-published guide ‘1989’, ISBN: 978-1-909363-01-4, nonetheless obtainable. The images listed below are within the order I took them. For these photos which have been within the guide I’ll present the guide pages right here.
Again on the Bakers Arms after just a little stroll on Leyton Flats I discovered this closed Mecca Leisure Bingo Corridor on Hoe Avenue, its floor ground frontage coated with flyposting. Cinema Treasures says it opened as The Scala Cinema in 1913, was renamed the Plaza Cinema in 1931 after which closed, reopening in 1933. After its subsequent title change in 1961 to The Cameo Cinema in 1961 it stored going for 2 years earlier than changing into a Mecca Bingo Membership. Left derelict for 18 years after this closed in 1986, it was taken over by a church in 2004, Grade II listed in 2006 and now seems to be a lot better. The itemizing textual content calls it the Former Empress Cinema and notes its nonetheless present elaborate inside plasterwork.
The London Grasp Bakers’ Pension Society (now the Bakers’ Benevolent Society) was based in 1832 and in 1854 determined to construct almshouses. The inspiration stone for the primary was laid in 1857 and the primary block of 18 have been completed by 1861 and the remainder by 1866, offering properties for aged poor bakers and their widows.
Within the late Sixties the positioning was bought, in all probability as part of a GLC road-widening scheme and the Bakers moved out to new villas in Epping. The almshouses have been saved from additional threats to demolish them by Grade II itemizing in 1971 and have been bought by Waltham Forest Council to be used as 1-bed flats.
That is now Clow Group Ltd, Diamond Ladder Manufacturing facility, nonetheless on this store on the nook of Shortlands Rd.
Quite to my shock this nook of Russel Street and Lea Bridge Street nonetheless seems to be remarkably comparable though the names have modified and the central buildings have been rebuilt, I believe with a barely wider pavement. Nevertheless it nonetheless sells tyres and vehicles and there may be nonetheless a shed on the nook, although now not named the DUCK INN, and the buildings down Russell Street nonetheless look a lot the identical.
This home was demolished to construct a contemporary workplace for the Capworth Panel & Timber Co Ltd, which was dissolved in 2012. In addition to the principle home the entire sheds and buidings at proper additionally went.
The home had clearly seen grander days, and I ponder it it had initially had a carriage entrance at left the place the brickwork doesn’t fairly match and the window and door are clearly far more trendy, maybe having been added concurrently the primary ground home windows got a makeover in all probability within the Thirties or 50s.
I nonetheless had time to proceed my wandering across the space and take a couple of extra footage and can submit a remaining set from this stroll shortly.
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