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Ivimey Street, LONDON, E2 6LR

The blocks in this housing estate at the southern end of Mansford Street are named after nineteenth-century public health reformers: the one on the west is named after the Utilitarian Jeremy Bentham, whose yardstick of the good in public life was whatever tended to "the greatest happiness of the greatest number". Comments from residents are invited.

On the right, the fine board school building that is now Lawdale School.

Looking north-northeast.

On the left, Oaklands School, and beyond it the former Unitarian chapel and manse. To the right, the fine Victorian structure of Lawdale primary school, and beyond that the many storeys of Charles Dickens House, local authority housing.

Wonder if this was named after the English writer....? Taken on Wednesday 9th May 2012

In the foreground, the new portion of Oaklands School http://www.oaklands.towerhamlets.sch.uk/ ; the Victorian premises are to the photographer's left and a bridge across Old Bethnal Green Road links them to the new site seen on the left. Beyond it, the Unitarian Chapel (dating from 1880) and the former manse beyond that. Chapel and manse are now occupied by the Chalice Foundation, a Unitarian body that focuses on social action and charity.

Taken from its southern end looking north.

The Unitarian Chapel dates from 1880. It and the former manse are now occupied by the Chalice Foundation, a Unitarian body that focuses on social action and charity. For the same view in 1988, see Image

At the time, rooms in the manse were let to tenants to finance the work of the chapel; it is now (2014) the base of the Chalice Foundation, a Unitarian charity. Since the photograph was taken a school building has been put up to the left of the chapel, on what was then a sports ground; the main body of the school lay on the far side of the Old Bethnal Green Road. (See Image for the new structure.) For the same view as this in 2012, see Image Faintly visible peeping around the chapel is Denys Lasdun's Keeling House, an architecturally significant block of flats at that time in some disrepair but subsequently revived.

Mansford Street formerly ran all the way south to Bethnal Green Road, but a housing estate has been placed across its path at the southern end, leaving only a short stub (renamed Rushmead) running the final fifty yards from Florida Street to the main road. This path through the estate follows the course of the old road through to the surviving street. The blocks in the estate are named after nineteenth-century public health reformers - here, Thomas Southwood Smith (1788-1861) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwood_Smith .