Met Eve at IHT on Tues. Amazing resources – Street scenes – 263-view of school in 1936, 269 – Welcome to Isle of Dogs (Loot Asda), 181 and 209 Seppelin, 197 – Jacko the Monkey in 1930s 130 Stewart Street, 208 Aerial view of IoD 1950s, 214 Bridged!, 221, A Year 7 boy 1928, 125 – Waiting for Moldies – kids against the wall waiting for pennies thrown from the coach taking people on an outing from the ‘Ship’ pub, 126- the (Great) walls with a ship’s prow almost perched on the top (bowsprite), 146 – Ginger the horse in Maria Street 1932 (Ginger’s story), 152 – Aerial view of IoD – WW2 first use of HTS, 154 – if you care you’ll be there – fighting the developers 1980s, 163 – IoD eighteenth century, 164 – IoD 1930, 174 – Walls, 88 – Cricket in the street (posed for the cameraman), 94 – Harry the fruit deliverer who would fall asleep at the end of the day and the kids would steal the fruit, 9 – row of shops outside GG’s 1970, DLR photos – chronicling the building of the DLR as it snaked through the warehouses and docks, Inside the Docks2 – 37, ItD1 – 9 – more graffiti(sold – up the river), Mast House Terrace – BRunel’s slipway for the Great Eastern, Timber Wharves – wood for a helicopter deck 17.
Aerial Photos/pictures of maps – 163 (18thC), 164 -1930s, 152 – WW2, 208 – 1950s,
Survey of London Vols 43 and 44 has lots more – at NMM, or Ports of London Museum, TH Local History museum (British History online).
Stories – Ginger the Horse, Jacko the Monkey, Harry the fruitman, Cricket – not quite.
Names – In the LDDC redevelopment many of the names were shifted in the minds of islanders, and it felt like their names and places were being appropriated.
Idea – check the DLR photos – redo them 25 years later as part of CAS programme. Check oral history tapes for stories like those within the pictures.