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barney15c | 13:18 Sun 01st Feb 2015 | ChatterBank
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Can anyone identify this London street please. The street is in E2 which is roughly Bethnal Green London and would have been around the mid to late 1950's. The picture suggests the street was being demolished at the time. Thank you very much if you can help!!!

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The bigger you enlarge this, more Street names are readable, good luck

http://www.postcodearea.co.uk/postaltowns/london/e2/
I really have no idea but because it ends UE I wondered if it could be Hague Place. That doesn't seem to exist but there is a Hague Street in Bethnal Green, maybe it was in that area.
Of course it may not be Hague at all.
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I've tried the following which were in the general area... Synagogue Place, Montague Place, but it isn't them.
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Thanks for your answer baldric, but I don't think the street i'm looking for exists anymore.
Barney, the E 2 are you sure it is E2, to me E & 2 are spaced!!! should the 2 be closer? just a thought.
TWR, E2 is the first part of the postcode.
Yes I know that Eccles, but should the 2 be closer to the E?
I don't think there were postcodes when that picture was taken.
You need to find on old A to Z.
Just checked Brick Lane Bethnal Green, the E2 are together, I don't this is Bethnal Green.
I'm thinking that the first word wouldn't be a long one. The reason being that the two rivets or screws would be in the middle of the sign, and the end of the sign would end just after "E2". So, the left portion of the sign would not contain a long name...Just a thought.
Are there any maps or book available that describe areas of London that were bombed during the war?
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Picture was taken in the mid to late 50's were there still areas of London that were left in that state at that time if they were bombed.
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There is a web site I used several years ago that showed where all known bombs fell in the London blitz and the types that were UXBs and recovered. Can't remember the site though.
Certain areas of Paddington were still bomb sites in the late 60's and many more sites elsewhere in London.
Barney15c, I remember visiting Liverpool as a really young kid in the 50's, and there were still areas of bomb damage there. I imagine that it would be the same in London.
Is that post a bus stop sign? Check old bus routes.
That looks like a great site, retrocop.
I think Prudie has it - Hague Place.
My 1954 Bartholomews Atlas lists "Hague Place, Sale St E2" in the index but asterisked. This means it does not appear on the map (too small) but adjoins Sale Street. Reference is for page 65. "Hague Street, E2" appears on page 66 so the two are close but not adjacent. I cannot find Hague Place on the larger OS of 1914.
Most of Sale Street has now gone and Hague Street entirely disappeared. I think the site of interest is now the open area Weavers Fields.

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