All Contributions from Bryan Mawer
Mr Maud's Sugar House
18 Ensign Street | Bryan Mawer
On the 1790s edition of Horwood's map of London, 'Maud's Sugar House' is named, abutting the Royalty Theatre in Well St (the old name fo…
The last East End sugarhouse, 1807-1961
Bloomfield House | Bryan Mawer
'On Monday night, about nine o'clock, the greatest excitement was created in the immediate neighbourhood of Whitechapel, by a most destr…
Sugarhouse at 30 Whitechapel Road, 1779-1826
30 Whitechapel Road | Bryan Mawer
The Universal British Directory lists William Mears, bellfounder, at 32 Whitechapel Road (formerly no.267) in the late eighteenth centur…
Robert Montefiore Primary School, Deal St
Greater Whitechapel: former Deal Street School | Bryan Mawer
Quotation from Survey of London: Volume 27, Spitalfields and Mile End New Town. "This school was built for the London …
Sugar in the Square
Shapla Primary School | Bryan Mawer
In the early 1750s, on the SW corner of the school site, stood the sugarhouse of John Arney. It backed onto Well Street (Ensign Street),…
Sugar Refineries, 12 Church St / 157 Hanbury St
Greater Whitechapel: former Deal Street School | Bryan Mawer
Prior to the school being built the site was used for sugar refining for much of the 19th century. Horwood's early map c.1799 …
The Montefiore Centre, Hanbury St
Greater Whitechapel: former Deal Street School | Bryan Mawer
The building continues its use as an establishment for education and training, having been opened in 1896 as the Deal Street E…
Sugar & Tea
40 Dock Street | Bryan Mawer
In the early 1830s John Hodgson moved into a new sugarhouse at the bottom end of Dock Street.[^1] As the biggest danger in the trade was…
A sugar refinery with men's room, Fieldgate Street
Maryam Centre, East London Mosque, Fieldgate Street | Bryan Mawer
The 1873 map layer shows that the Maryam Centre sits squarely on the site of a sugar refinery, the later development of which took it al…
A unique footprint
Camperdown House, 6 Braham Street | Bryan Mawer
Tucked away in the archive of the late Bristol sugar researcher Mr I. V. Hall at Bristol Archives is a simple plan, dated 1856, of the s…
12-20 Osborn St 1795-1877
12-20 Osborn Street (Arbor City Hotel) | Bryan Mawer
'A two-house sugar refinery and warehouses, Whitechapel ... extensive freehold and leasehold premises ... situate in Osborn St, having a…
Size Yard
Black Lion House | Bryan Mawer
The footprint of the present building covers ten or so houses, shown on Horwood's map of 1813 to have been fronting Whitechapel Road. Cu…
From Gower's Walk to homes in Hessen
52 to 58 Commercial Road | Bryan Mawer
On the east side of Gower's Walk on the corner of what is now Commercial Road (formerly part of Church Lane) stood a sugarhouse. It was …
Montefiore Centre 2 (2001)
Greater Whitechapel: former Deal Street School | Bryan Mawer
Horwood's early map c.1799 shows only four small buildings, likely houses, at the east corner of Church St (later Hanbury St) and Deal St (…