![]() ![]() ![]() The size of the dwellings – no flat had more than two bedrooms – often had little bearing on the number of people occupying them. The first and third sections of the left hand block consisted of both one and two bedroom dwellings complete with inside toilet and bathroom, but those unfortunate enough to occupy the second section of the left hand block still had the pleasure of outside toilets and washrooms as per the original Victorian design. Each section had four flats on either side of the staircase, thereby providing a total of eight homes in each section. ![]() The two tenements were subdivided into three sections with each section having a staircase running the height of the building. ![]() However, by the sixties, ‘great’ was the most unlikely epithet and no one had ever known them to be anything better than the lower end of the housing market. Great Eastern Buildings were a product of the Great Eastern Rail Company which ran services from East Anglia to Liverpool St Station and erecting the Buildings in the nineteenth century as cheap workers’ accommodation to support the development of the railway line. Steven Harris sent me this candid memoir of his childhood in Great Eastern Buildings off Brick Lane ![]()
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