| Description | Scrapbooks of photographs, newspaper cuttings, prints and ephemera relating to organisations, places and subjects in Tower Hamlets and elsewhere. Compiled in 1970s-1980s, with earlier material included back to 18th century.
ACCESS/CATALOGUE STATUS: One file, 1977, is catalogued. The rest of this collection is currently uncatalogued, consisting of one deposit TH/10627. See list in this description. Access is by appointment only. Please contact staff.
In 1995 the Local History Library removed some loose items from volumes and in the case of TH/10627/34 (formerly numbered by Local History Library as Book 1) photographs unrelated to the scrapbook's title were added into the main Image Collection:
The following is a full survey list to TH/10627, compiled in 2025 in excel spreadsheet on accession file, and pasted here for searching purposes:
Box number Item number Given title Detailed scope by Harry Watton Dates if any Extent Type Notes
1 1 Docklands Light Railway 2' 1 volume Scrapbook
1 2 Photograph Album (No title) 1 volume Photograph album
1 3 London Hospital' 1 volume Scrapbook
1 4 Hanslip FLETCHER: London Views' 1 volume
1 5 No title 1 volume Scrapbook Wallpapercovered
1 6 No title 1 volume Scrapbook Mouse on cover
1 7 Whitechapel Art Gallery' 1 volume Scrapbook
2 8 The Hamlet of Ratcliff and Ratcliff Highway' 1 volume Scrapbook
2 9 The Highway - St George in the East, St Pauls Shadwell, Cable Street,including Auschwitz Exhibition, St George in the East' 1 volume Scrapbook
2 10 National Museum of Labour' 1 volume Scrapbook
2 11 No title - Miscellaneous 1 volume Scrapbook Wallpaper cover
2 12 Aldgate - Hoop and Grapes, etc.' 1 volume Scrapbook
2 13 Coborn Street, no. 7 etc., Carlton Square, Bancroft Road, Mile End and Coborn School' 1 volume Scrapbook
3 14 No title - General Material 1 volume Scrapbook Yellow folder, untitled
3 15 Genealogical/Autobiographical Notes, mostly unused 1 volume Notes
3 16 Christ's Hospital: Trinity House, Greenwich, City Companies, Mile End Almshouses' 1 volume Scrapbook
3 17 Mile End' 1 volume Scrapbook
3 18 Spitalfields,Toynbee Hall, Christ Church, Fournier Street and Huguenots' 1 volume Scrapbook
3 19 [Bow] - Bow, Victoria Park, Old Ford, Bow Bridge, River Lea
19 consists of:
"2/1 Scrapbook containing cuttings (1973-1981) and historical ephemera including [? early 20th century] photographs of Bow Bridge (1 photograph) and southern end of River Lea (2 photographs) and photographs taken by Hilda Bazalgette of:
(3) Dace Road and vicinity (8) 1976
(1) Beachy Road ""
(5) Fordway School ""
(7) Northern outfall sewage works ""
(8) Old Ford Locks (15) ""
(10) Victoria Park (2) 1977-1978
(4) Regent Canal (2) 1978
(2) Bow Road (16) 1976-1982
(6) Gladstone Statue (2) 1980-1982
(4) Devons Road ?1982
2/2 [Formerly inside 2/1]
Unmounted press cuttings (some undated), 1970s-1980s, loose scrapbook pages containing cuttings, and c75 photographs taken by Hilda Bazalgette of:-
Bow Church (9) 1974-1982
Bow Road (25) ""
Bow Station (Demolition) (2) 1975
Cadogan Terrace (6) 1976
Gladstone Statue (4) 1977-1982
Gunmakers Lane not dated
Hertford Union Canal (3) not dated
Jodrell Road (3) ? 1977
Old Ford Road and vicinity (8) 1976-1978
Priscilla Road (2) 1974
Regents Canal ?1977
River Lea (2) 1973
Victoria Park (10) 1974-1976" 1 volume Scrapbook Book 2/1 Harry Watton's number, repackaged this
4 20 Spitalfields: Brick Lane, Middlesex Street, Spitalfields, Trumans, [Crossed out names], Petticoat Lane, Club Row' 1 volume Scrapbook
4 21 Wapping and the Docks continued - Wapping Shadwell Basin' 1 volume Scrapbook
4 22 Untitled 1 volume Scrapbook Blue criss cross wallpaper cover
4 23 Inside cover 'Tower Hamlets Conservation Area' 1 volume Scrapbook
4 24 Inside cover 'Tower Hill Improvement' 1 volume Scrapbook W. H. Smith scrapbook
5 25 Untitled 1 volume Scrapbook Red wallpaper cover green (white blank typing paper)
5 26 NAWCS [National Association of Women's Clubs] Jubilee Retirement Cards, Wimbledon Guild Guild Literature' 1 volume Scrapbook
5 27 Untitled 1 volume Scrapbook Noah's Ark illustration on cover
5 28 Poplar High Street, Blackwall' [Aberfeldy and Poplar] 1 volume Scrapbook
5 29 Wapping High Street Churchyard, Docks, Mrs Gager' 1 volume Scrapbook
6 30 The Isle of Dogs' with list inside 1 volume Scrapbook Blue wallpaper covered
6 31 Whitechapel: Jews' Cemetery, Brady Street, Market, Hospital' 1 volume Scrapbook
6 32 Tall Ships, Tower of London St. Katherine's Dock,The Nore Light Ship' 1 volume Scrapbook
6 33 Bow, Ropery Street, St Clements, Mile End Road' 1 volume Scrapbook
7 34 Whitechapel Road - London Hospital'
"Cuttings 1974-1982;
Six Photographs 1975-1976;
Reproductions of views of London Hospital 1753; 1874; 1969;
1/2 [Formerly inside 1/1]
Unmounted press cuttings, 1973-1991 [many are undated];
Loose scrapbook pages containing cuttings, and 27 photographs, 1970s;
[50 photographs not directly showing London Hospital have been removed, and placed, as indicated, in the Image Collections]." 1 volume Scrapbook Book 1: Harry Watton's number. He started on this 1 of 2 parts plus 2 of 2 (put together)
7 35 Poplar, George Green's School Fly A Flag' "[but also includes material relating to Limehouse Library]
List of photographs in the volume (dates not always certain):
Aberfeldy Street 1 1976
Aberfeldy Street Fred's Cafe 1 1976
?Amoy Place 1 1975
Atholl Street ? 1974
Blair Street 1 ? 1974
Bromley Hall Road 1 ? 1974
Brownfield Estate 1 not dated
'Builders Arms' 2 not dated
Commercial Road 2 1975
'Conant Arms' 1 not dated
East End Mission 2 1975
East India Dock 5 1975; not dated
East India Dock Road near Poplar Hospital 1 ?1974
East India Dock Road, number 153 2 1976
Follett Street 1 not dated
George Green School, East India Dock Road 9 not dated; 1976-1982
'George IV' 2 not dated
'Gladstone' 1 not dated
Green's Sailors Home 2 1976
Grundy Street 1 not dated
Ida Street 5 not dated; 1977
Langdon Park School 4 not dated
Lansbury [?] 13 not dated; 1982
Leven Road 1 1974
Limehouse Cut 1 1974
Limehouse Library 1 1975
Limehouse Town Hall 2 not dated
Lochnagar Street 1 ? 1974
Murals (near Teviot Street) 3 1977
Piggott Street 2 1974
Poplar Library 1 1974
'Princess of Wales' 2 not dated
Queen Victoria Seamen's Rest 1 not dated
Radford House 1 not dated
Richard Green Statue 1 1974
Sailors Palace 1 1975
Saint Anne's Church, Limehouse 1 1974
Saint Frideswide's Mission House 2 1976
'Saint Leonard's Arms' 2 1977
Saint Leonard's Road 8 1977-1978
Saint Leonard's Street - Imperial Wines Limited 1 1974
Saint Michael's Church, Rectory and Parish Hall 11 1977; not dated
Sir William Burrough's School 1 not dated
Stainsby Road - Saint Domingo Cottages 3 1974-1975
'Star of The East' 2 1975-1976
Sturry Street 2 not dated; 1976
Susannah Street 1 not dated
Trinity Church - George Green's tomb 1 1976
'Wellington Arms' 1 not dated
'White Horse', Poplar 2 1974" 1 volume Scrapbook Book 3: Harry Watton's number/actual title
7 36 No title - Mile End 1 volume Scrapbook Book 4: Harry Watton's number
7 37 Whitechapel Jack The Ripper' 1 volume Scrapbook
7 38 London Funerals; Roman Road market; St. George in the East; Baronness Burdett Coutts' 1 volume Scrapbook
8 39 Stepney, Bow and Old Ford; Limehouse, Whitechapel - Commercial Road; Mile End; Spitalfields; Petticoat Lane; Poplar; Great Alie Street; Myrdle and Parfett Streets; Musical Halls; Ratcliff' 1 volume Scrapbook
8 40 Histories of Wimbledon (Millward etc.)' 1 volume Scrapbook
8 41 Commercial Road, The Jews and Christians, Jewish New Year cards, Jewish Chronicle' 1 volume Scrapbook
8 42 Spitalfields' 1 volume Scrapbook
9 43 Whitechapel and St Botolph's, Aldgate' 1 volume Scrapbook
9 44 Cooper's Company School, Christ's Hospital' 1 volume Scrapbook
9 45 No title - World War Two 1 volume Scrapbook
9 46 Untitled - Various campaigns: education, docks, tenants, etc. 1 volume Scrapbook
9 47 Whitechapel Art Gallery, Jewish cards, etc.' 1 volume Scrapbook
9 48 Baroness Burdett Coutts' 1 volume Scrapbook
9 49 Research correspondence with repositories and individuals and notes 1972-1973 1 file Notes
10 50 Spitalfields - Brady Street Jews' Burial Ground - Rothschild's Graves' 1 volume Scrapbook
10 51 Transport' 1 volume Scrapbook
10 52 Dr. Barnardo's, Stepney Causeway, Book II' 1 volume Scrapbook
10 53 Ragged School Museum; East London Record 1986, 1985-5 and 1988-9; East London Cards; Wapping Whitechapel; Muslim texts and cards'. Also: 'Globe Town Booklet; Old Ordnance Survey Maps; Calendars - postcards of Bow, etc.' 1 volume Scrapbook
10 54 Isle of Dogs; Mudchute; Island Gardens; 277 bus route snaps from top of bus' 1 volume Scrapbook
11 55 Prints of London churches, Bow Creek and Canning Town' 1 volume Scrapbook
11 56 Docklands Light Railway I' 1 volume Scrapbook
11 57 Limehouse, St Anne's' 1 volume Scrapbook
11 58 Shipbuilding, West India Docks, West Ferry Road' 1 volume Scrapbook
11 59 Watney Street' 1 volume Scrapbook
11 60 Isle of Dogs from the bus All Saints Poplar and back to Mile End Road' 1 volume Scrapbook
12 61 Women's Suffrage, MPs, Women in the East End' 1 volume Scrapbook
12 62 Untitled - Wapping 1 volume Scrapbook
12 63 Stepney Green; Cooper's School at Upminster; Jamaica Street; Beaumont Square' 1 volume Scrapbook
12 64 Tower of London; Golden Hind etc.' 1 volume Scrapbook
12 65 London Hospital - 250th Anniversary; Mile End: Queen Mary College, Hospital, Library, Bancroft Road, Old Ordnance Survey Maps; Pubs of Tower Hamlets' 1 volume Scrapbook
12 66 Bethnal Green Museum' 1 volume Scrapbook
13 67 Bethnal Green: Old Ford Road; London Chest Hospital; Bonner Road; Cyprus Street; St. James The Less; Bonner Road Schools (booklets)' 1 volume Scrapbook
13 68 Cooper's School; Henry Hart and Family' 1 volume Scrapbook
13 69 Commercial Road, E1; Ramadan etc.; The proposed mosque' 1 volume Scrapbook
13 70 Untitled - River Thames 1 volume Scrapbook
13 71 Whitechapel Art Gallery etc' 1 volume Scrapbook
14 72 Untitled - Jewish Chronicle etc 1 volume Scrapbook
14 73 Untitled - Whitechapel 1 volume Scrapbook
14 74 Bow and Bromley - Campbell Road, Bow; Bryant and May' 1 volume Scrapbook
14 75 Wapping - Early plans, wharf conversions; Tower of London' 1 volume Scrapbook
14 76 Bromley-by-Bow - Bow Common; Poplar (Kingsley Hall, Clara Grant, Fern Street)' 1 volume Scrapbook
15 77 Conservation Areas: York Square; Albert Gardens; Limehouse - Aston Street; Matlock Street, Salmon Lane; Raynes School; York Square; The Great Companies; Minutes of Mile End Old Town Vestry; H. C. L. Hart; various almshouses' 1 volume Scrapbook
15 78 Poplar' 1 volume Scrapbook
15 79 Half Moon; Great Alie Street; Cable Street' 1 volume Scrapbook
15 80 Bethnal Green Museum' 1 volume Scrapbook
15 81 Bethnal Green: Oxford House; Weaver's Fields; Wilmot and Finnis Streets; Parmiter's School' 1 volume Scrapbook
16 82 Bethnal Green Museum' 1 volume Scrapbook
16 83 Tower of London' 1 volume Scrapbook
16 84 Wellclose Square and the Ratcliff Highway' 1 volume Scrapbook
17 85 Bethnal Green' 1 volume Scrapbook
17 86 Mile End [Untitled]: includes Central Library, Bancroft Road, Mile End Hospital, and housing estates 1 volume Scrapbook
17 87 Club Row etc Brick Lane, Bengalis, Spitalfields C18 [18th Century]' 1 volume Scrapbook
17 88 An East End Directory' by Peter Marcan Publications 1979-1985 1 file Publication
17 89 Music Halls' 1 volume Scrapbook
17 90 Wapping [Untitled]: Wapping Plan/Future 1975-1977 1 file Planning file
17 91 Planning in West Bethnal Green. A Report for Public Consultation' by Planning Department, Directorate of Development, London Borough of Tower Hamlets 1978 1 file Planning file
17 92 Spitalfields [Untitled]: includes Spitalfields Market, Petticoat Lane Market and housing matters Scrapbook
17 93 Photograph 'Album': colour photographs covering various locations in East End, London and Home Counties 1971-1972 1 volume Photograph album
18 94 Photographs' album: with contents list covering various locations in East End, London and Home Counties 1972 1 volume Photograph album
18 95 Hart family history [untitled]: notes on family of Henry Charles Litchfield Hart 1 volume Research notes
18 96 Docklands future [Untitled] 1975-1977 1 file Planning file
18 97 Poplar Planning' 1979-1982 1 volume Planning file
18 98 Planning in Bow' 1979 1 file Planning file
18 99 Getting London in Perspective' Barbican Art Gallery publication 1984 1 volume Publication
18 100 Loose items to file into scrapbooks, mainly cuttings 11 items To file
19 101 St Katharine at Tower Docks etc' 1 volume Scrapbook Oversize [loose] |
| AdminHistory | Mrs Hilda Chamberlain Bazalgette (1910-1993) was a local historian. She was born in West Ham on 22 April 1910, daughter of Edgar William Hart, a bank clerk originally from Stepney, and his wife Grace Hart (nee Chamberlain), born in the Isle of Wight; there were at least two other children - Mercy Chamberlain Hart (b. 1905) and Leonard William Chamberlain Hart (b. 1907) (see 1911 census).
Hilda married Edward Bazalgette in 1955; there were no children. Hilda died in Wandsworth in 1993. Brought up in Tower Hamlets (her paternal family, the Harts, were of Stepney), which may account for her long-running interest in the history of the area, she later lived at 7 Hilly Mead, Thornton Hill, Wimbledon, Surrey. She was an active member of Tower Hamlets Society and part of the Society's Buildings Group. |