All Contributions from Rebecca Preston
Expansions on Prescot Street for the tea office and coffee works (demolished)
100 Leman Street (Minet House) | Rebecca Preston
In 1925 L. G. Ekins designed a small, shallow two-storey extension to the tea department warehouse, extending two bays from the main bui…
Co-operative Wholesale Society Furnishing and Hardware Warehouse, 9 Prescot Street
9 Prescot Street | Rebecca Preston
The seven-storey Furnishing and Hardware Warehouse and Showrooms at 9 Prescot Street (and 78 Chamber Street) were designed for the Co-op…
Social, political and cultural activity in the Co-operative Wholesale Society's premises in and around Leman Street
Sugar House, 99 Leman Street | Rebecca Preston
From its early days the Co-operative Wholesale Society organised social and educational activities for its staff and hosted meetings and…
The decline of the Co-operative Wholesale Society in Whitechapel and the redevelopment of the east side of Leman Street
Sugar House, 99 Leman Street | Rebecca Preston
By 1970 the Co-operative Wholesale Society had a number of empty premises in and around Leman Street, reflecting internal changes within…
The first premises of the Co-operative Wholesale Society at Hooper Square (mostly demolished)
Flats 1 to 45 Christopher Court, 97 Leman Street | Rebecca Preston
In 1878 the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS) began negotiations for the freehold of a former sugar refinery and associated property,…
'Poor Man's Hotel: A Rowton House Building for Whitechapel'
Tower House, 81 Fieldgate Street | Rebecca Preston
'To-morrow the fifth of the Rowton Houses will be opened to receive guests. Situated 400 yards from St Mary's Station, Whitechapel, it s…
Victoria Home, 177 Whitechapel Road
Victoria Court (Salvation Army Lifehouse), 177 Whitechapel Road | Rebecca Preston
‘The men behave remarkably well […] and many of them form friendships and club together their means both for food and lodging, so that w…
Redevelopment of the London Tea Factory, 100 Leman Street and associated Co-operative Wholesale Society property
100 Leman Street (Minet House) | Rebecca Preston
Expansion of Co-operative Wholesale Society premises had stopped by 1955 when permission was granted for a roof over the tea warehouse y…
Tower House (former Rowton House), 81 Fieldgate Street
Tower House, 81 Fieldgate Street | Rebecca Preston
With its distinctive roofline and seven storeys rising sixty feet above ground level, Tower House is a local landmark and towered above …
Sterling Mansions, 75 Leman Street
Sterling Mansions | Rebecca Preston
In 1908–10 the Co-operative Wholesale Society's branch headquarters at 99 Leman Street were extended northwards by F. E. L. Harris for a…
The expansion of the CWS Tea Department to the sites of 80–86 Leman Street
100 Leman Street (Minet House) | Rebecca Preston
The Co-operative Wholesale Society had considered purchasing the freehold of 86 Leman Street in 1895 but apparently did not do so immedi…
The Co-operative Wholesale Society around Leman Street and its beginnings in London
Sugar House, 99 Leman Street | Rebecca Preston
The Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS) opened its first warehouse in Whitechapel in 1881, on a plot on the north side of the present H…
The Co-operative Wholesale Society's London Branch Headquarters at 99 Leman Street, now partially incorporated by Sugar House
Sugar House, 99 Leman Street | Rebecca Preston
The Co-operative Wholesale Society's London Branch headquarters were built to designs by J. F. Goodey of 1885. At the formal opening on…
The wool warehouse (demolished) and later Drapery Warehouse extension at 53–65 Leman Street (demolished)
Drapery Plaza (formerly Student Castle), 65 Leman Street | Rebecca Preston
Early in 1925 the Co-operative Wholesale Society announced that it would shortly be acquiring the warehouse adjoining 75 Leman Street on…
CWS Coffee Roasters & Cocoa Works and London Bacon Stoves, 116-118 Leman Street (demolished)
1-7 Prescot Street | Rebecca Preston
Early in 1886, following a fire at the end of 1885, the Co-operative Wholesale Society's Tea Department was moved into a former sugar re…
The Co-operative Wholesale Society's London Tea Department (demolished)
100 Leman Street (Minet House) | Rebecca Preston
From 1869, the Co-operative Wholesale Society acquired its tea on the London market in an arrangement with Joseph Woodin, a merchant wit…
Great Eastern Goods Depot, East Smithfield (demolished)
46-54 John Fisher Street on the Royal Mint Estate | Rebecca Preston
The East Smithfield Goods Depot was constructed for the Great Eastern Railway Company by the London and Blackwall Railway Company and op…
Four Demolished Goods Depots
Railway Viaduct Spur | Rebecca Preston
Goods depots formed clusters in certain locations, especially near dock areas, where competing railway companies tried to secure a share…
The Pump House, 19–20 Hooper Street
Old Pump House, 19-20 Hooper Street | Rebecca Preston
The London Tilbury and Southend Railway Company’s Hooper Street hydraulic pumping station is the only substantial railway goods-handling…
Commercial Road Goods Depot with warehouse and branch line (demolished)
Meranti House | Rebecca Preston
The Commercial Road Goods Depot was a huge railway complex. Sited to the north of the London and Blackwall Railway, it was built in 1884…
London and Blackwall Railway
Pier in middle of Leman Street | Rebecca Preston
By 1835 there were two competing schemes for a railway line between the City of London and the West India and East India Docks – one pla…
Leman Street Station
Pier in middle of Leman Street | Rebecca Preston
Until the 1870s there was no station on the London and Blackwall line in Whitechapel; the first passenger station after Fenchurch Street…
120 Leman Street
120 Leman Street | Rebecca Preston
Imperial Buildings or Warehouses were erected on this site in about 1884 replacing a sugar refinery on the wedge of land between the sou…
Co-operative Wholesale Society Administrative Offices and Bank, 1 Prescot Street
1-7 Prescot Street | Rebecca Preston
Leonard Gray Ekins, FRIBA (1877–1948) worked all his adult life for the Co-operative Wholesale Society and served as London Branch Chief…
14 Chamber Street
14 Chamber Street | Rebecca Preston
From at least 1930 the Co-operative Wholesale Society leased premises for a garage from the London and North Eastern Railway Company at …
