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Boundary Estate
51°31′34″N 0°04′26″W / 51.526°N 0.074°W
The Boundary Estate is a housing development in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London.
The estate, constructed from 1890, was one of the earliest social housing schemes built by a local government authority. It was built on the site of the demolished Friars Mount rookery in the Old Nichol, with works begun by the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1893 and completed by the recently formed London County Council.
Soil from the foundations was used to construct a mound in the middle of Arnold Circus at the centre of the development, surmounted by an extant bandstand. The estate consists of multistorey brick tenements radiating from the central circus, each of which bears the name of a town or village along the non-tidal reaches of the Thames.
For administrative purposes, the estate lay just within the boundaries of the historical parish and (from 1900) Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green, which in 1965 became part of the new London Borough of Tower Hamlets. For ecclesiastical purposes, it lay within the parish of Holy Trinity, Shoreditch, created in 1866. The estate's name reflects its borderline location.
In 1680, John Nichol of Gray's Inn, who had built seven houses here, leased 4.75 acres (1.92 ha) of gardens for 180 years to a London mason, Jon Richardson, with permission to dig for bricks. The land became piecemeal with houses built by several sub-lessees. Many of the streets were named after Nichol, and by 1827, the 5-acre (2.0 ha) estate consisted of 237 houses.
Henry Mayhew visited Bethnal Green in 1850, and noted for The Morning Chronicle the trades in the area: tailors, costermongers, shoemakers, dustmen, sawyers, carpenters, cabinet makers and silkweavers. In the area, it was noted:
Roads were unmade, often mere alleys, small houses without foundations, subdivided and often around unpaved courts. An almost total lack of drainage and sewerage was made worse by the ponds formed by the excavation of brickearth. Pigs and cows in back yards, noxious trades like boiling tripe, melting tallow, or preparing cat's meat, slaughter houses, dustheaps, and 'lakes of putrefying night soil' added to the filth.
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Boundary Estate
51°31′34″N 0°04′26″W / 51.526°N 0.074°W
The Boundary Estate is a housing development in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London.
The estate, constructed from 1890, was one of the earliest social housing schemes built by a local government authority. It was built on the site of the demolished Friars Mount rookery in the Old Nichol, with works begun by the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1893 and completed by the recently formed London County Council.
Soil from the foundations was used to construct a mound in the middle of Arnold Circus at the centre of the development, surmounted by an extant bandstand. The estate consists of multistorey brick tenements radiating from the central circus, each of which bears the name of a town or village along the non-tidal reaches of the Thames.
For administrative purposes, the estate lay just within the boundaries of the historical parish and (from 1900) Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green, which in 1965 became part of the new London Borough of Tower Hamlets. For ecclesiastical purposes, it lay within the parish of Holy Trinity, Shoreditch, created in 1866. The estate's name reflects its borderline location.
In 1680, John Nichol of Gray's Inn, who had built seven houses here, leased 4.75 acres (1.92 ha) of gardens for 180 years to a London mason, Jon Richardson, with permission to dig for bricks. The land became piecemeal with houses built by several sub-lessees. Many of the streets were named after Nichol, and by 1827, the 5-acre (2.0 ha) estate consisted of 237 houses.
Henry Mayhew visited Bethnal Green in 1850, and noted for The Morning Chronicle the trades in the area: tailors, costermongers, shoemakers, dustmen, sawyers, carpenters, cabinet makers and silkweavers. In the area, it was noted:
Roads were unmade, often mere alleys, small houses without foundations, subdivided and often around unpaved courts. An almost total lack of drainage and sewerage was made worse by the ponds formed by the excavation of brickearth. Pigs and cows in back yards, noxious trades like boiling tripe, melting tallow, or preparing cat's meat, slaughter houses, dustheaps, and 'lakes of putrefying night soil' added to the filth.
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