| Description | This collection consists of Walk East heritage project records including 'Terraces, Tenements and Tower Blocks' project photographs relating to Bethnal Green housing heritage.
CATALOGUE STATUS: This collection is currently uncatalogued, however a box list is available as follows:
Box 1:
'Terraces, Tenements and Tower Blocks' project photographs relating to Bethnal Green housing heritage:
Contemporary colour photograph prints from digital file images [not deposited] taken by multiple project participants, each in a labelled packet arranged by Zone letter. Each packet contains 10-20 photographs.
Collected by Graham Barker, Director who explains: 'As part of the curation process, we shortlisted some of the more interesting photos taken by project participants - these were printed out, and used as the basis for selecting images for the booklet and other resources.'
Zone B:
Jesus Green Estate
Nag's Head Estate
Dorset Estate and Sivill House
Leopold Buildings, Columbia Road
Columbia Road
[5 packets]
Zone C:
Winkley Estate (and Claredale)
St Peter's Estate and Church
Avebury East Estate
Hackney Road
Keeling House
Minerva Estate
Peabody Estate at Cambridge Crescent
[7 packets]
Zone D:
Approach Road
Old Bethnal Green "village"
Park View Estate
[3 packets]
Zone E:
Cranbrook Estate
Burnham Estate
Cyprus Estate
[3 packets]
'Terraces, Tenements and Tower Blocks. A self-guided walk around the housing heritage of Bethnal Green' project booklet digital PDF file, 2014. This booklet brings together photographs and research undertaken during the project in 2013.
Also [transferred on 12/02/2026]:
Digital versions of the photographs including some extra images, not included in the prints, but all taken during the project. Photographers' names are given in the image titles [1 folder of 943 JPG digital files in 20 folders] as follows:
Zone B:
Columbia Road
Dorset Estate and Sivill House
Jesus Green Estate
Leopold Buildings, Columbia Road
Nags Head Estate
Zone C:
Avebury East Estate
Hackney Road
Keeling House
Minerva Estate
Peabody Estate at Cambridge Crescent
St Peter's Estate and Church
Winkley Estate (and Claredale Street)
Zone D:
Approach Road
Old Bethnal Green "village"
Park View Estate
Patriot Square
Zone E:
Burnham Estate
Cranbrook Estate
Cyprus Estate
East End Dwellings Company around Globe Road
Box 1 (continued):
Printed booklets produced during other Walk East projects:
'East 2: The Insiders' Guide to Bethnal Green' 2014
'East 2: The Insiders' Guide to Bethnal Green' 2015
'East 3: The Insiders' Guide to Bow' 2014
'East 3: The Insiders' Guide to Bow' 2016
'Glimpses: A Portrait of Bethnal Green' (exhibition booklet, Oxford House, 2012)
'Talking Photos: Whitechapel Reframed' (exhibition booklet, Whitechapel Idea Store, 2015)
'A Taste of Watney Market: Recipes and Stories from Shadwell' (2015)
Photo-books:
'Exploring Bow's Parks and Waterways' (2011)
'Around Mile End Park' (2012)
'Sharing the Stories of Shadwell and Whitechapel' (2014)
2:
Exhibition posters (1 roll):
'Talking Photos: Whitechapel Reframed' (at Whitechapel Idea Store, April 2015) to go with the exhibition booklet
'Postcards from Aldgate East' (at Oxford House, July 2015) |
| AdminHistory | Walk East is a not-for-profit social enterprise, based in Tower Hamlets, with a focus on cultural and heritage education and publishing activities.
Run by Graham Barker, Director, Walk East CIC [Community Interest Company] was incorporated on 10 June 2010. Registered office: The Old Bakery, 4 Stepney Green.
According to Walk East's website (source: http://www.walkeast.org/index.html. Accessed 12/02/2026):
'On a walk, you can discover more about your local area, take a proactive approach to managing your health and wellbeing, and enjoy shared social time with friends, family and colleagues. Walking can give you an all-round lift, for mind, body and soul.
At Walk East we aim to share the pleasures and benefits of walking for discovery, health and wellbeing, and community with East London residents and visitors. Some of our recent projects include leading photo-walk courses, organising workplace walks, managing weekly health walks, and creating newspaper and video walks.
Each project is tailor-made to meet the priorities and needs of the community groups and clubs, schools, council and NHS departments, private companies and charitable bodies that work with us. And we design our projects to be sustainable, to have a lasting impact on attitudes towards walking in East London.'
Projects include:
'Terraces, Tenements and Tower Blocks' project, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. According to the Walk East website:
'Over ten weeks in April-June 2013, a group of local residents came together to investigate the housing heritage of Bethnal Green. We used old maps, photos, trade directories and other historical resources to explore how the local area has developed and who has lived here over the years. And we set out cameras in hand to photograph the architecture, streetscapes and todays residents. Throughout the project, we shared our stories and photos on a project blog: www.bethnalgreeninfocus.org'.
'Project coordinators: Graham Barker is a journalist and walk guide. He writes Walk of the Month for East End Life, manages the Tower Hamlets health walk programme, and develops community projects spanning photography, heritage, journalism and cookery. Natalie Clarke runs photography workshops, socials and masterclasses at the Photo School, and is an executive coach, with a particular interest in using photography and visual literacy in her practice.'
Project participants:
Fatima Ali, Alan Dann, Alan Drew, Mike Elston, Alan Fraser, Jackie Gooding, Christine Hall, Maggie Hewitt, Jay Hudson, Marion Kerr, Peter Lanes, Gary Marsh, Valerie Sheekey, Matthew Shelley, Christine Thomas and Anne Walker.
The project produced a booklet 'Terraces, Tenements and Tower Blocks. A self-guided walk around the housing heritage of Bethnal Green'. |