Here’s some pages from the Register of Estates :
Looking at the plans below of the Estate as it stood in 1870 it seems that there were once blocks on either side of Corfield Street, where the Barrett style houses and Ainsley Gardens are now situated.
A close up of the signed and dated text :
There’s a page missing here, I wonder if that had featured the layout of the blocks on Corfield Street ? :
I think this is the layout of the blocks on the West side of Wilmot Street :
And this the plans for the blocks on the East :
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At last I’ve found something on the web about Bethnal Green I can associate with. All my relations were brought up in either Wilmot Street, Corfield, Finnis Street. I remember visiting my aunt and gran who lived next door to the pub, The Lamb, in Wilmot Street just after the war.
R Saunders
Thanks Ruth, I’d love to know more about the estate in that era, I’ve been searching for photographs but so far I’ve not turned up much. I suspect The Lamb has been turned into flats now now. Thank you for the comment,
all the best !
Last time I travelled up (about a year ago) The Lamb was just an office block. The buildings seemed to be the originals, but with different roofings. Allen and Hanburys site was called Greenways, not pulled down yet. And The Good Shepherd mission was still there.