Stefan Dickers, Archivist at Bishopsgate Institute, kindly sent me these wonderful advertisements from a History of Tower Hamlets produced by the council in 1967 and I could not resist showing them to you. Half a century later, it is poignant to contemplate these proud images of manufacturing and long-established local businesses which are now all gone.
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Images courtesy Bishopsgate Institute
You might also like to take a look at
Adverts from the Jewish East End
Adverts from Stepney Borough Guide
Adverts from Shoreditch Borough Guide
The Trade Cards of Old London
Business in Bishopsgate, 1892
Crowden & Keeves’ Hardware
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