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Halley Street, LONDON, E14 7SJ

The site is now occupied by Solent House, a block of council flats set back from Ben Johnson Road near its junction with Aston Street.

Stepney suffered greatly during the Blitz, and there was a desperate need in the immediate post-war years not only to re-house people whose homes had been destroyed but also to cater for demobilized service personnel returning home to civilian life. The Limehouse Fields Estate was one of the main developments to solve these problems. Three different types of housing can be seen here. The nearest, and somewhat unusually green, houses are Donoghue Cottages, built in 1949. Further down the road, which is Galsworthy Avenue, are some more recent (1990s?) houses, while in the distance is a towerblock, probably dating from the 1960s.

This is a view looking along the Regent's Canal to Johnson's Lock, with the Ragged School Museum on the left and some flats on the right, looking south.

After the construction of a large development of flats, Candle Street now leaves Ben Jonson Road between Mercer Court (left) and Gray Court (right). The names of the succeeding blocks on the right reflect the industrial history of the area: Coalstore Court and Tramway Court. These overlook the Regent's Canal at their eastern ends.

Autumnal scenery beside the canal bridge where Rhodeswell Road meets Ben Jonson Road. The ornamental berry bush on the right was alive with starlings.

Prominent on the approach to London City airport from the west.

Just north of Victory Bridge, with Gray Court above, the silver sculpture of a fish on the wall above the canal, with a real coot beneath.

Rare surviving canal-side warehouses in Copperfield Road, once used for one of Dr Barnado's ragged schools.

Ragged schools were free schools, initially established in the late 1860s by Thomas Barnardo to provide poor children in the East End of London with a free basic education. This building, which was originally a lime juice warehouse on the Regent's Canal, which runs at the rear, became the largest ragged school in London when it opened in 1877. It closed in 1908 as schools provided by the local government authorities were opened. After various industrial uses the buildings were saved from threatened demolition and the Ragged School Museum Charitable Trust was established to create a museum to show today's children what life was like in a Victorian school classroom. The Museum opened in 1990 and its website is here http://www.raggedschoolmuseum.org.uk/nextgen/ The distant towerblock is Waterview House, a 1969 built 16 storey structure on Carr Street, arranged into 66 flats. (From a technical point of view this is a fine illustration of how distorted tall buildings can apparently become and appear to lean into the photograph.)