It seems that the boys industrial education included physical training (above) and also music after 1892 when the school was presented with a set of instruments from the “Church Walk Workhouse Band”.
Photograph Norman Kirtlan, information from Len Charlton.
The Almshouses in Assembly Garth dating back to 1740 were amongst the many nautical missions, homes and schools that were found in the East End. They catered for a continual flow of working sailors as well as the many who through sickness, drink or just old age were destitute, in this case providing a home for “38 superannuated seamen and their widows”.
Photograph Norman Kirtlan, information from Len Charlton.
Low Street, Drysdale's Entry.
A typical cobbled lane running into Low St with, it appears, some window cleaning going on.
Photograph Norman Kirtlan, information from Len Charlton.
Next to Caslaw Hayter and Tate the Sans St Mission was a well used Methodist centre. The building was in fact in High St West not Sans St.
Photograph Norman Kirtlan, information from Len Charlton.
At the bottom of HighSt East, Pottery Buildings. served as a charitable mission for East-Enders and seamen. It was built in 1868 on the site of an old pottery by Edward Backhouse, a wealthy Quaker. Rebuilt after bomb damage it was finally demolished in the 1960s.
Photograph Norman Kirtlan, information from Len Charlton.
