| Description | Pen and ink. Hand coloured, watercolour on vellum, with watercolour coat of arms; 27 cm x 78 cm. Framed.
The plan gives the following information: 'Explanation: The Dwelling Houses are Coloured Red The Work houses & Sheds with a fainter Red The Yards Yellow. The Gardens Green And the Streets Brown.' 'Note the whole Estate (Including the Streets) contains 5 Acres,1 Rood, 11 Pole & 164 Feet'
The following streets in Whitechapel are shown: Buckley Street [later Buckle Street] Church Lane [later Commercial Road East] Colchester Street [later Braham Street] Lead House Yard [later site of Camperdown Street] Little Aliff Lane [Little Alie Street, became Alie Street] Plough Street [Plough or Plow Street] Quiet Row [later enlarged as Braham Street] Red Lyon Street [Red Lion Street - later became Leman Street].
Shows ale houses, bricklayers yard, carpenters yard, coach houses, lead house, 'silk throusters', skittle grounds, stables, stabling yard, sugar houses, gardens and 'Horse Ride'. Some properties are marked in pencil with numbers, measurements and some dates in 1810s.
Scale: 200 feet = 13.5cm |