S Schwartz Spitalfields

[smurfchops]

Saw this house in Spitalfields, Fournier Street, last week and wondered about the history of it.

http://www.flickr.com.../brighton/5598063651/

[carrot99]

http://photos.caseboo...e.php?album=16&pos=10

Found this photo of it in 1946 when it was an Express Dairy on the `Casebook: Jack the Ripper' web site.

[smurfchops]

How can you see it was Express Dairy, carrot? I can see No 37 in your picture but S Schwartz is No 33.

[smurfchops]

carrot, just found this :

http://collage.cityof...london&sp=122019&sp=X

[craft1948]

There were 3 families at that address in 1911

Barnett Paradise a fur skin dealer from Russia and his Romanian wife Esther.
Davis Byer a china & drapery traveller from Austria
Lazarus Carmel a furrier from Romania and his wife(also Romanian) Roske Leah.............

[craft1948]

They had 8 rooms between them with Barnett and his wife having 4 of them, they all gave the address 33 Fournier Street, Brick Lane.

[heathfield]

Smurf - go to Carrot's link and click on the photo to enlarge it. On the new image you'll see clearly that the Schwartz entrance-way to the rear of the building has 'Express Dairy' written above it.

[craft1948]

35 would appear to have been a sweatshop with all the occupants female, russian, austrian, and polish, and all cutters, tailoresses, and fur machinists.

[craft1948]

http://www.thisislond...georges-eastenders.do

[jno]

Spitalfields was where Flemish weavers lived; top floors often have big windows so they could see the looms. More recent immigrants were Jewish and Bangladeshi. The area was preserved from demolition in the 60s-70s and is now frightfully trendy and expensive. Can't help with this particular house, though

[smurfchops]

I love it there. Dan Cruickshank lives there somewhere ... who else does ?

[jno]

Dan Cruickshank was one of the pople who helped save it, along with John Betjeman.; Jeanette Winterson lives there too above a grocer's shop (which I think she owns)

[ethandron]

yes she does. will visit it one day.

[ethandron]

she has a 'proper' house somewhere else too, where she grows lots of veg and things.

[smurfchops]

ethandron, its worth a visit. You have to walk from Liverpool St Station, about five minutes. There is a pub on the corner of the big church where apparently one of Jack the Ripper's victims used to wait for her customers ... I wish I'd known before I went, I would have gone in the pub. Has quite a history. I think its called the Ten Bells. Also we didn't read up on the streets before we went, we only went to Fournier, Brick Lane, then Fashion Street. I think some of the streets are more interesting although I loved Fournier. What a history.

[jno]

there's some info about its history here

http://www.british-hi...aspx?compid=50172#s10

[Eastender]

Went to school in Brick Lane (Christchurch), brought up in the that area, until about 10years old. Print one of the london walks of the internet I am sure you find it it very interesting. So much history around that area.