Yes I've seen that video, did you notice the mistake right at the beginning where Jack says Sowerbutts is right next to Billingsgate Fish Market ? Billingsgate is over a mile away, the market next to Sowerbutts was Spitalfields.Mr B wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2023 8:36 amWell thats a great bit of research Ljm!Ljm183 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 7:45 pmThe building owned by The Peabody Trust
" The first block, designed by H. A. Darbishire in a red-brick Jacobethan style, opened in Commercial Street, Spitalfields, on 29 February 1864. It cost £22,000 to build, and contained 57 "dwellings" (i.e. flats) for the poor, nine shops with accommodation for the shopkeepers, and baths and laundry facilities on the upper floor. Water-closets were grouped in pairs by the staircases, with one shared between every two flats."
After reading your post I did a bit of research myself, really interesting!
The Peabody Trust really played a big part in those difficult times and are still going.
Have you seen The Turks Pond, Jack Hargreaves?
Well worth a watch.... I must watch it again.
Thanks for posting.
Mr B
This is my Sowerbutts travel rod with a Sowerbutts centrepin.