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Buxton Street, LONDON, E1 5AS

On the right, at the junction with Vallance Road, is the former pub and hostel shown in Image

The plaque on the right records the residence here of Quaker Mary Hughes (1860-1941), daughter of novelist (Tom Brown's Schooldays) Thomas Hughes. She acquired this pub, the Earl Grey, in 1926, turned it into a hostel for the homeless and renamed it the Dew Drop Inn. A record of her remarkable life is at http://www.happywarrior.org/genealogy/hughes.htm . On the left is Underwood Road.

This area would have been streets of terraces at one time. WW2 bombing and subsequent redevelopment have done away with whole blocks, but somehow these two shops on the corner have held on.

The Keen Students School is to be found in Vallance Road. See, though, a close up of one of the notices in the window - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3811932

Keen Students School is to be found in Vallance Road. I am sure though that the spelling is 'enrolling' so I would be a little worried about enroling here for study.

Off Selby Street; most properties in the street are owned by taxi dealers and repairers KPM UK Taxis.

In 1979, local people turned an area of derelict ex railway land at the eastern end of Weaver Street in Spitalfields into allotments. As time went by, the land was also used to keep poultry and ducks. The number and variety of animals grew, as did the range of activities carried out on the site. This eventually became Spitalfields City Farm. Since then the farm lost some land along its northern side when the East London Line, which was previously in a tunnel, was upgraded to become part of London Overground and was put in a cutting through part of the farm's land. As compensation the farm took some land from Allen Gardens (a rather nondescript park) to the west. As well as a variety of animals including sheep, pigs, goats, cattle and ferrets the farm runs a variety of activities including a Young Farmers Club and Community Food Growing. See http://www.spitalfieldscityfarm.org/ for more information about the farm. The entrance is in Buxton Street. This photograph shows an old red telephone box adorned with a number of awards won at the Essex Young Farmers’ Country Show.

In 1979, local people turned an area of derelict ex railway land at the eastern end of Weaver Street in Spitalfields into allotments. As time went by, the land was also used to keep poultry and ducks. The number and variety of animals grew, as did the range of activities carried out on the site. This eventually became Spitalfields City Farm. Since then the farm lost some land along its northern side when the East London Line, which was previously in a tunnel, was upgraded to become part of London Overground and was put in a cutting through part of the farm's land. As compensation the farm took some land from Allen Gardens (a rather nondescript park) to the west. As well as a variety of animals including sheep, pigs, goats, cattle and ferrets the farm runs a variety of activities including a Young Farmers Club and Community Food Growing. See http://www.spitalfieldscityfarm.org/ for more information about the farm. The entrance is in Buxton Street. This photograph shows an old red telephone box adorned with a number of awards won at the Essex Young Farmers’ Country Show.