{"id":3093,"date":"2011-01-13T10:15:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T10:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2011-01-13T14:50:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T14:50:05","slug":"derelict-shops-toynbee-street-spitalfields-london-e1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/derelict-shops-toynbee-street-spitalfields-london-e1\/","title":{"rendered":"Derelict shops, Toynbee Street, Spitalfields, London E1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Derelict<\/p>\n

Looking unlikely to ever come back from the dead is this block of derelict shops along the east side of Toynbee Street in the Spitalfields district of east London, E1.<\/p>\n

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At number 15 is the boarded up shop front of Conway Trading Company, with an old\u00a0hand-painted\u00a0sign\u00a0above. The shop has been closed for several years.<\/p>\n

\"Derelict<\/p>\n

Wilburton Textiles used to operate from Number 19. The area was famous for its textile trade.<\/p>\n

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Derelict and long abandoned shop at number 17, Toynbee Street, with the old doorway in a poor state of repair.<\/p>\n

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The premises of the\u00a0intriguing-sounding, “Binsam Impex Limited.”<\/p>\n

To the left (out of view) is a general store carrying the snappy name, “New Continental Food Stores Groceries Halal Meat 21-23.”<\/p>\n

It’s shown as still being open in\u00a0Google Street View<\/a>, but the graffiti-covered shutters were down when we went past, and it looked as run down as the other shops.<\/p>\n

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The remains of the\u00a0slowly\u00a0disintegrating\u00a0‘Lightmake’ sign at number 29. Most of the upstairs room windows were boarded up along the row.<\/p>\n

\"Derelict<\/p>\n

The peeling frontage of the Lahoree Restaurant is in such a dreadful state, I sincerely hope the takeaway isn’t still serving food.<\/p>\n

I’ve no idea who Daniel Stone is, and aren’t really that bothered to find out, thanks.<\/p>\n

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The restaurant exterior is in a shocking state.<\/p>\n

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General view of the row of shops looking north.<\/p>\n

Considering the generally dismal condition of these buildings, I can only assume that they’ve\u00a0been\u00a0earmarked for demolition (with the inevitable luxury ‘lifestyle’ flats to follow), but does anyone know for sure?<\/p>\n

Thans to a poster on the [bulletin boards<\/a>]I have learnt that the road used to be called Shepherd Street and is marked as such on the Booth Poverty Map of 1898-99, which classifies the households along it as ‘Mixed, some comfortable, others poor’.<\/p>\n

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There’s still some trading taking place on Toynbee Street – here’s a shop on the opposite side of the street.<\/p>\n

[Discuss this article on our bulletin boards<\/a>]<\/p>\n

[More London photos and features here<\/a>] – [Location\u00a0map<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking unlikely to ever come back from the dead is this block of derelict shops along the east side of Toynbee Street in the Spitalfields district of east London, E1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,17,193],"tags":[378,377,379,375],"class_list":["post-3093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-photos","category-places","tag-derelict","tag-shops","tag-spitalfields","tag-whitechapel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/toynbee-street-spitalfields-london-e1-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-NT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3093"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3099,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions\/3099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}