Limehouse Collection (page 2)

Singing saloon in the East End of London
The crowded singing saloon (pub) in Ratcliffe Highway, in the Limehouse area of the East End of London

Street party, Coronation of King George V
A large crowd of people taking part in a street party for the Coronation of King George V. The location is Acland Street, Limehouse, London E14

Gymnasium at Barnardos Leopold House Home, Limehouse, Londo
Boys performing a drill in the gymnasium at Barnardos Leopold House Home, Limehouse, London. Date: circa 1905

Advertisement for Sanitas disinfectant, WW1
Wartime advertisement for Sanitas disinfectant, by appointment to King George V -- don t use German disinfectants. Sanitas Fluid for washing wounds, purifying the air of sick rooms, etc

Limehouse
Scene in a Limehouse Street in London with two-horse coal cart ridden by two tradesmen passing a stationary cart piled high with large boxes and crates Date: 1930s

St Ann Limehouse
The church and its graveyard Date: circa 1840

Limehouse Shop
A Chinese shop in Limehouse, at this time the district most favoured by residents of Asiatic origin. Date: circa 1900

Sea Scouts at Limehouse Basin, London Docks
4th Streatham Sea Scouts on their boat, 4th Dimension, at Limehouse Basin, London Docks, around the time of the 25th Anniversary of Queen Elizabeth IIs Coronation

Where to eat dinner with chopsticks a la chinoise
Scene from 1920 of a Chinese restaurant in Londons Chinatown in Limehouse. The first Chinese to settle in Britain arrived in the late 18th century

1930s slum back yards, Limehouse

Scullery in slum at Limehouse

West India Docks excavation
The construction of the New South Dock, at the Limehouse entrance. The warehouses to be built were intended for imported East India produce such as jute seed, saltpetre and cotton

Limehouse Reach
Dockers take a break by the river

Limehouse Boatyard Etc
Messrs Forrestts lifeboat building yard and the elevated railway at Limehouse

Poor children being fed in Limehouse, London
Irish-stew dinner being served to poor children at the Conder Street Mission Hall in Limehouse, London

The River Thames in London, 1890
Engraving showing a number of scenes along the River Thames from Gravesend to Rotherhithe, London, 1890. The images show (clockwise from top right): The Angel Inn

The Strangers Home, Limehouse, 1870
Engraving showing the interior of one of the rooms of the Strangers Home for Asiatics, Africans and South Sea Islanders in West India Dock Road, Limehouse, London, 1870

Limehouse Docks, at the entrance to the Regents Canal. Cargoes are transferred from the sea-going vessels to barges for transport on the canal

Slum Basement Window
Two poor children peering through the bars of a slum basement, Limehouse, East End of London

Street Kids
Every child in the street wants to be in the picture - I make it 64, but its hard to tell sisters from mothers. We are probably in Limehouse

Cholera Poster / 1866
Board of Works, for the Limehouse District issue a poster warning about the effects of cholera

Irish Stew for the Poor
An Irish-stew dinner to the poor at the Conder Street mission hall, Limehouse, east London

CRICKET WRECK
An engine explosion on board the Thames paddle-steamer Cricket sinks her in Limehouse Reach

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