Industrial Dwellings, Wentworth Street, Whitechapel.--Plan
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13 November 1886 (published)
13 November 1886 (published)
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Cutting from The Builder Magazine, with an article about and plan of affordable housing built for the Jewish community in the East End by the Four Per Cent Industrial Dwellings Company Ltd.
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Title | Industrial Dwellings, Wentworth Street, Whitechapel.--Plan |
Materials and techniques | wood engraving and text |
Brief description | 'Industrial Dwellings, Wentworth Street, Whitechapel.--Plan', wood engraving in The Builder magazine, 13 November 1886 |
Physical description | Cutting from The Builder Magazine, with an article about and plan of affordable housing built for the Jewish community in the East End by the Four Per Cent Industrial Dwellings Company Ltd. |
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Marks and inscriptions | INDUSTRIAL DWELLINGS, WENTWORTH
STREET, WHITECHAPEL, E.
These dwellings, now in course of erection
from designs by Mr. E. Hoole, form parts of
the Goulston-street and Flower and Dean street
scheme of the Metropolitan Board of Works.
Wentworth-street has been widened, and the
dwellings replace the old common lodging-
houses which formerly stood on the site. One
hundred and thirty rooms are provided in tene-
ments of three, two and one rooms, and are
approached by stone staircases, which also lead
to the flat roofs, and communicate on each
floor with the offices. Laundries are constructed
on the flat roofs, which serve as drying-grounds.
Each living-room is fitted up with sideboard,
coal-locker, and cooking-range, and has at hand
a dust-shoot and pail service. An attempt has
been made to avoid the barrack-like appearance
too often characteristic of this class of dwell-
ing, as it is found that the rooms let more
readily when a more cheerful appearance is
given to the exteriors. Red bricks have been
used for facing, and Lascelles's slabs for the
balustrades to balconies; the roofs, where not
flat, being covered with red tiles. The works
are being executed by Messrs. Williams & Son,
builders, of Thornhill-square, Islington, N. |
Credit line | Given by the Hon. Arthur Villiers |
Object history | This object was part of the John Edmund Gardner collection of topographical prints and drawings of London. After Gardner's death the collection passed to his son Edmund Thomas, but was sold to Edward Coates MP in 1910. The collection was sold again in 1923 after Coates' death, and was split between various institutions and private collectors. The portion connected with Hoxton, Homerton, Hackney and Bethnal Green was bought by the Hon. Arthur Villiers and donated to the Bethnal Green Museum. |
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Bibliographic reference | Taken from departmental handlist |
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Accession number | E.4952-1923 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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