Tower Hamlets
Local History Library
and Archives
Tower Hamlets
Local History Library
Subject Guide
Revised 2014
Abattoirs 640.1
Abbeys 210.1
Abused women hostels and agencies 365.2
Accessioning (library administration) 846
Accumulator towers 690.1
Acts of Parliament and orders 343 Acts of Parliament - Bethnal Green 343.3 Acts of Parliament – Poplar 343.2 Acts of Parliament – Stepney 343.1
Alder House 430
Alder House – Concerts 780.4
Administration of justice 344
Adult education 830 Adult education – Bethnal Green 830.3 Adult education – Poplar 830.2 Adult education – Stepney 830.1
Advertising 651.2
Adventure centres 797
Aerial photographs 054 Aerial photographs – Bethnal Green 054.3 Aerial photographs – Poplar 054.2 Aerial photographs - Stepney 054.1
Afro-Caribbean people 490
Agriculture 630
AIDS 610.2
Air pollution 610.3
Air raid precautions 347
Air raid shelters 347.1
Air raids 081 Air raids – Bethnal Green 081.3 Air raids – Poplar 081.2 Air raids – Stepney 081.1
Air Training Corps 345.2
Airports 384.1
Alcoholism 337
Alexandra House (Bow Road) 621.26
All Hallows (Devons Road) 223.9
All Hallows (East India Docks) 223.13
All Saints (Buxton Street) 221.27
All Saints (Poplar) 223
All Saints (Poplar) – Churchwardens, vestries 351.3
All Saints (Poplar) – parish 033
All Saints (Poplar) – vestry elections 321.1
Allotments 630.1
Almshouses 370 Almshouses – Bethnal green 370.3 Almshouses – Poplar 370.2 Almshouses – Stepney 370.1
Alton Street School 820.2
Ambulance services 624.2
Anarchists 320.7
Ancient Order of Britons 366.6
Ancient Order of Druids 366.2
Ancient Order of Foresters 366.4
Angling 797.11
Animal Clinics 631.3
Anthropology 590
Anti-nuclear protests 346.1
Antiquities 570
Anti-Semitism 300.2
Apparitions 392.2
Applique 751
Approach Road Wesleyan Methodist Mission 226.3
Archaeology 570
Architecture 721
Architectural companies 651.1
Armies 345 Armies – conscription and recruitment 345.3 Armies – local regiments 345.1 Armies – training corps 345.2 Armies – volunteer corps 345.1
Armistice Day 390.4
Army Cadet Corps 345.2
Arnhem Wharf Primary School (Westferry Road) 820.2
Art galleries 750.1
Art Place Trust 360
Art Schools 821 Art Schools – Bethnal Green 821.3 Art Schools – Poplar 821.2 Art Schools – Stepney 821.1
Art Societies 731 Art Societies – Bethnal Green 731.3 Art Societies – Poplar 731.2 Art Societies – Stepney 731.1
Artillery Lane Mission 222.1
Arts and crafts 730
Arts and crafts, Art Festivals in schools 810.4
Arts centres, societies, art festivals 731 Arts centres, societies, art festivals - Bethnal Green 731.3 Arts centres, societies, art festivals – Poplar 731.2 Arts centres, societies, art festivals – Stepney 731.1
Asphalt industry 670.2
Assaults 342
Assessment (financial) 356
Associations (general) 360 Associations (general) – Bethnal Green 360.3 Associations (general) – Poplar 360.2 Associations (general) – Stepney 360.1
Associations for the Aged 334.5
Asthma 610
Astronomy 520
Athletics 797.7
Athletics in schools 825
Atley Road School 820.2
Audits (Public) 356
August Project 360
Authors (local) 870
Avenues Unlimited 360
Awards and Decorations – civil 300.1 Awards and Decorations – military 345.4
BNP (British National Party) 320.5
Baking - industry 670.5 Baking – home economics 640.1
Ballet 793.2
Ballooning 797.9
Ballroom dancing 793.1
Bancroft Library 850.1 Bancroft’s School 820.1
Bands (music) 780.2
Banga Bandhu Primary School 820.1
Bangladeshis 440
Banks 650.3
Baptist Churches in Bethnal Green 226.2 Baptist Churches in Poplar 224.2 Baptist Churches in Stepney 222.2 Baptist religious life 230.2
Barbers 651.2
Barges 909
Barnardo’s Homes 364.1
Barnardo’s Toy Workshop 370.3
Barrels – manufacture 680.7
Basement Writers 870
Basket manufacture 680.15
Baths 611
Battle of Cable Street 320.5
Beanos 390.6
Beating the Bounds 390.1
Beatrice Tate School 823
Beaumont Institution 830.1
Bedford Institute Association 240
Bee Keeping 631
Beggars 335.3
Bell ringing 290.3
Bells – Church 290.3 Bells – manufacture 680.4
Ben Johnson School 820.1
Benefit Societies 367
Benevolent Societies 371
Bengalis 440
Benledi Street Chapel 224.3
Berner Street School 820.1
Beth Holim 621.17
Bethel Baptist Chapel 224.2
Bethnal Green 040 Bethnal Green Borough Council 354.3 Bethnal Green Borough Council – elections 321.3 Bethnal Green Borough Council – finance 356.4
Bethnal Green Central Hall (Bonner Road) 226.3
Bethnal Green Council of Churches 262
Bethnal Green High School 820.3
Bethnal Green Hospital 621.3
Bethnal Green Library 850.3
Bethnal Green Medical Mission 621.37
Bethnal Green Methodist Church (Approach Road) 226.3
Bethnal Green Military Hospital 621.3
Bethnal Green Road Market 652.34
Bethnal Green Society 330.16
Bethnal Green Sports Centre 797
Bethnal Green Tube disaster 081.3
Bethnal House Asylum 621.35
Betting 200.5
Betts Street School 820.1
Billiards 798.1
Billingsgate Fish Market (West India Docks) 652.20
Bingo 798.6
Biographies 100
Biology 590
Bird sanctuaries 590
Birds 631.1
Birth control 622.4
Birth rates 310
Birth registers 120
Bisexual people 306
Bishop Challoner Catholic School (Christian St) 820.1
Bishopsgate Goods Yard 385.2
Blackwall 035
Blackwall Branch Asylum 621.25
Blackwall Police Station 974
Blackwall Tunnel 1897 389.1 Blackwall Tunnel 1967 389.2
Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green 870
Blind people 620.3
Blitz 081
Blood donors 620.1
Blue Gate Fields Primary School (King David Lane) 820.1
Boards of Guardians 353 Boards of Guardians – Bethnal Green 353.3 Boards of Guardians – elections 321.2 Boards of Guardians – Poplar 353.2 Boards of Guardians – Stepney 353.1
Boards of Works 352 Boards of Works – Bethnal Green 352.3 Boards of Works – elections 321.1 Boards of Works – Poplar 352.2 Boards of Works – Stepney 352.1
Boating 797.4
Bollards 600.4
Bonner Primary School 820.3
Book weeks 845
Booksellers 651.4
Boot manufacture 680.11
Borough Councils 354 Borough Councils – civic functions 359 Borough Councils – committees 358.3 Borough Councils – councillors 358.1 Borough Councils – elections 321.3 Borough Councils – executive 358 Borough Councils – public relations 359
Borough Librarians 841
Borough of Poplar Nature Study Union 830.2
Botany 580
Botolph Road School 820.2
Bottle banks 610.1
Boules 797.6
Boundaries 052 Boundaries – Bethnal Green 052.3 Boundaries – Poplar 052.2 Boundaries – Stepney 052.1
Boundary Stones 712
Bow 031 Bow and Bromley Institute 830.2
Bow Boys School 820.2
Bow Bridge 388.1
Bow Central School 820.2
Bow Common Methodist Church 224.3
Bow Creek 035
Bow Library (Idea Store Bow) 850.21
Bow (Methodist) Mission 224.3
Bow Road Baptist Chapel 224.2
Bow Road Methodist Church 224.3
Bow Road Open Air School 823.3
Bow Road Presbyterian Church 224.5
Bow School (Fairfield Road) 820.2
Bow Trains (Bow Church) 385.2
Bowbrook School 820.2
Bowls 797.6
Boxing 797.3
Boys’ Brigade 363.3
Brady Centre 360.1
Brake outings 390.6
Brass foundries 680.4
Brasses – Church 290.2 Brasses – crafts 730.4
Bravery 300.1
Breast screening 620.1
Brewing industry 670.3
Brick Lane Market 652.32
Brick manufacture 680.13
Bridges 388
Brighton College Mission 222.1
British Empire Cancer Campaign 624.4
British Girls Nursing Corps 623.5
Bromley Hall Road School 820.2
British Legion 345.5
British National Party (BNP) 320.5
British Red Cross Society 624.1
British Sailors Society 365.1
British Street School 820.2
Broad Street School 820.1
Bromley 032
Bromley-by-Bow Centre 620
Bromley Hall School 823.1
Bromley St. Leonard (Parish) 032 Bromley St. Leonard – churchwardens, vestries 351.32 Bromley St. Leonard – vestry elections 321.1
Bronzes 730.4
Brownies 363.2
Bruce Road Congregational Church 224.4
Brunswick Chapel (Limehouse) 222.3
Brunswick Congregational Church (Whitechapel Rd) 222.4
Brush manufacture 680.15
Buckle Street Jews Infant School 820.1 Buddhism / Buddhists 226.13
Building societies 650.4
Building trade 690.2
Buildings of historical and architectural interest 721 Buildings of historical and architectural interest – Bethnal Green 721.3 Buildings of historical and architectural interest – Poplar 721.2 Buildings of historical and architectural interest - Stepney 721.1
Burdett Road Congregational Church 222.4
Burdett Road Market 652.14
Burdett Toy Library 823
Burglary 342
Burial registers 120
Burkers 341
Buses 386
Business and Businesses 650 Business cards 651.3 Business associations 650.1 Business conferences 650
Buskers 792.3
Bye-laws 343
Bryon Street School (Hay Currie School) 820.2
C.A.B. (Citizens Advice Bureau) 330.15
Cable cars 384
Cafes 655
Calico dye printing 680.2
Calvinist chapels in Bethnal Green 226.3 Calvinist chapels in Poplar 224.3 Calvinist chapels in Stepney 222.3 Calvinist religious life 230.3
Camera clubs 770.1 Canals 981
Canary Wharf – redevelopment 700.2 Canary Wharf – Wharves 966.1 Ca Canary Wharf Limited 650
Canning Town Bridge 388.2
Canoeing 797.4
Canteens 640.1
Car boot sales 652
Caravans 331.1
Cardinal Griffin Secondary School 820.2
Care Trust Tower Hamlets Fund 330.12
Careers advisory services 332.6
Carers Centre Tower Hamlets 360
Carnivals 390.5
Casual wards 730.2
Catholic Churches in Bethnal Green 226.6 Catholic Churches in Poplar 224.6 Catholic Churches in Stepney 222.6
Cats 631.2
Cattle troughs 612.4
Cayley Primary School (Aston Street) 820.1
Celebrations 072
Cemeteries and churchyards 711 Cemeteries – Bethnal Green 711.3 Cemeteries – Poplar 711.2 Cemeteries – Stepney 711.1
Census statistics 310
Central Foundation Girls School (Bow) 820.2
Central Foundation Girls School (Spital Square) 820.1 Central Library 850.1
Ceremonies and celebrations 072 Ceremonies and celebrations – Bethnal Green 072.3 Ceremonies and celebrations – Poplar 072.2 Ceremonies and celebrations – Stepney 072.1
Cervical cytology 620.3
Chapel of the Good Shepherd (Wapping) 222.1
Chapel Royal of St. John 221.25
Chapman Primary School 820.1
Charitable organisations 371 Charitable organisations – Bethnal Green 371.3 Charitable organisations – Poplar 371.2 Charitable organisations – Stepney 371.1
Charities 370 Charities – Bethnal Green 370.3 Charities – Poplar 370.2 Charities – Stepney 370.1
Charity schools 820 Charity schools – Stepney 820.1
Charles Key Lodge 620.3
Chartism 320.7
Chemical industries 670
Chemistry 540
Cheshire Street Market 652.31
Chess 798.3
Chicksand Street School 820.1
Child abuse 342
Child welfare 622 Child welfare - associations and committees 622.5 Child welfare – clinics and centres 622.1 Child welfare - school treatment centres 622.2
Children’s literature 870.2 Children’s outings and parties 792.3
Children’s County Holiday Fund 622.5
Children’s homes 364
Chimney sweeping 652.41
China manufacture 680.1
Chinese people 410
Chisenhale Road School 820.3
Choirs 780.3
Cholera 610.2
Choral societies 780.3
Christ Street Library (Christ Street Idea Store) 850.23
Christ Street Market 652.22
Christ and St John’s Church 223.3
Christ Church (Isle of Dogs) 223.3
Christ Church (Jamaica Street) 221.7
Christ Church (Spitalfields) 221.8
Christ Church (Spitalfields) - churchwardens, vestries 351.1
Christ Church (Spitalfields) – parish 023
Christ Church (Watney Street) 221.4
Christchurch Spitalfields C. of E Primary School 820.1
Christ Church Mission 223.21
Christian Aid 260
Christian Society of Operative Silk Weavers Chapel 240.3
Christian Unity 262
Christmas 280.2
Christian Church and politics 260 Christian Church and social problems 260 Christian Church Army 222.12 Christian Church arts 290.1 Christian Church bells 290 Christian Church furniture 290 Christian Church Lads Brigade 363.3 Christian Church ornaments 290.2
Church of England religious life 230.1
Church Street Schools 820.1
Churches 220 Churches – Bethnal Green 220.3 Churches – Poplar 220.2 Churches – Stepney 220.1
Churchwardens 351
Cinemas 794 Cinemas – Bethnal Green 794.3 Cinemas – Poplar 794.2 Cinemas – Stepney 794.1
Circuses 792.3
Citizens Advice Bureau 330.15
City and East London College 822.1
City farms 631
City of London 012
City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery 711.1
City of London Hospital 621.31
City of London Union 621.21
Civic receptions 359.2
Civic exhibitions 359
Civic insignia and robes 391.1
Civic Trust awards 700
Civil defence 347 Civil defence – exercises and demonstrations 347.4 Civil defence - protective measures 347.1
Civil engineering 690.1
Civil war (English) 345
Claimants Educational Trust and unions 330.13
Clay pipe manufacture 680.15
Clean Up Association 330.7
Clothing manufacture 680.8
Club Row Market 652.31
Clubs 360
Coach outings 390.6
Coal industry and merchants 670.7
Coats of arms 740.1
Coborn School for Girls 820.2
Cockney dialect 860
Cockneys 300
Coffee houses 655
Coins 730.3
Coin manufacture 680.4
Collage 751
College Chapel 222.13
College of Health 620
Collegiate Church of St. Katharine 210
Columbia Market 652.3
Columbia Primary School 820.3
Columbia Road Flower Market 652.30 Commemorative plaques 712
Commerce and commercial premises 650
Commercial industries 822 Commercial industries – Bethnal Green 822.3 Commercial industries – Poplar 822.2 Commercial industries – Stepney 822.1
Commercial Street Baptist Church 222.2
Committee for Training Jewish Social Workers 330.14
Common land 720.4
Communist Party 320.4
Community Care Plan 330
Community Centres 360 Community Centres – Bethnal Green 360.3 Community Centres - Poplar 360.2 Community Centres - Stepney 360.1
Community charge 356
Community service volunteers 330.3
Concert Halls and concerts 780.4
Confectionary industry 670.5
Congregational Chapel (West Ferry Road) 224.4
Congregational Churches in Bethnal Green 226.4 Congregational Churches in Poplar 224.4 Congregational Churches in Stepney 222.4
Conscription 345.3
Conservation of buildings 721 Conservation of buildings – Bethnal Green 721.3 Conservation of buildings – Poplar 721.2 Conservation of buildings – Stepney 721.1
Conservation of the natural environment 580
Conservative Party 320.2
Consulates 320 Convalescent homes 626
Convent of St Clare 221.33
Convents 210.1
Cooperage 680.7
Coopers’ Company’s School (Tredegar Square) 820.1
Co-operative and co-partnership movement 332.5
Coronations 072
Coroners’ courts 610
Costermongers 652.4
Costume 391
Cotton Street Baptist Chapel 224.2
Council Housing and leaseholders 331.2
Council of Citizens of Tower Hamlets 330.2
Councillors 358.1
Counterfeiting 342
Courts of Law 344.1
Cow keeping 631
Coventry Cross Mosque and Islamic Centre 224.13
Coverdale Congregational Church 222.4
Craft school 830.3
Craft School in Stepney Green 821.1
Crafts 730
Cranbrook Road School 820.3
Cricket 797.2
Crime 340
Cripples Church (Bonner Street) 226.3
Crisis Intervention Service 372
Crystallography 540
Cubitt Town 034
Cubitt Town Library 850.23
Cubitt Town Methodist Church (Stebondale Road) 224.3
Cubitt Town School (Saunders Ness Road) 820.2
Cubs (youth club) 363.1
Culloden Primary School 820.2
Customs 390
Cutler Street Market 652.13
Cycling 797.10
Cygnet Street Market 652.31
Cyril Jackson Primary School (Three Colt Street) 820.1
Dairies 631
Dancing 793
Dancing in schools 810.2
Daneford School 820.3
Daniel Street School 820.3
Danish Church (Wellclose Square) 222.10
Danish people 450
Danish Seaman’s Club (Ming Street) 224.10
Darts 798.2
Davenant Foundation School (Whitechapel Road) 820.1
Day Continuation Schools 822 Day Continuation Schools – Bethnal Green 822.3 Day Continuation Schools – Poplar 822.2 Day Continuation Schools – Stepney 822.1
Day nurseries 823.4
Deancross Project 360.1
Deaneries 212
Death rates 310
Debating societies 830
Decentralisation of Tower Hamlets Borough Council 354.4
Decorating trade 690.2
Decorations 345.5 Decorations – military 342.2
Demonstrations 333
Dempsey Street School 820.1
Design 740
Detention and station houses 340.2
Devons Road Market 652.21
Devons School 820.2
Dewdrop Inn 270.1
Dingle Lane School 820.2
Directories 051 Directories – Bethnal Green 051.3 Directories – Poplar 051.2 Directories – Stepney 051.1
Disabled people – schools 823.1 Disabled people – services and associations 620.3
Diseases 610.2
Distilleries 670.3
Dock Acts 960.1
Dock Police 961
Dock workers 967.1 Dock workers – social and welfare organisations 967.5 Dock workers – strikes and disputes 967.2 Dock workers – trade unions 967.3
Dockland Settlement 360.2
Docklands Forum 360
Docklands 015.1 Docklands legislation for redevelopment 343 Docklands redevelopment 700
Docklands History Group 360
Docklands Light Railway 385.7
Docks 963 Docks in Tower Hamlets 964 Docks – Museums 900.6
Dockside Preparatory School 820.2
Dr. Barnardos 364.1
Doggett’s Coat and Badge 976
Dogs 631.2
Dolphin Lane School 820.2
Domestic animals 631
Domestic violence 342
Dorset Library 850.31
Drama 870
Drawing 740
Drinking fountains 612.4
Drug abuse and trafficking 342
Druids 200.1
Dry docks 901 Durward Street School 820.1
Dustmen 610.1
Dyeing 680.2
East End Community School 820.1
East End Maternity Hospital 621.12
East End Mission (Commercial Road) 222.3
East End Wildlife Group 580
East India Company 990
East India Company - history 991
East India Dock Basin Bird Sanctuary 590
East India Docks 964.2
East London 015
East London Animal Aid 360.1
East London Children’s Moral Welfare Committee 622.5
East London Church Fund 240
East London Claimants Union 330.13
East London Community Organisation (TELCO) 360
East London History Society 852
East London Hospital for Children 621.14
East London Institute of Christian Studies 240.3
East London Line 385.4
East London Nursing Society 623.2
East London Protection of Animals Group 631
East London Railway 385.4
East London Stadium 797
East London Tabernacle (Burdett Road) 222.2
Eastbourne House 240.3
Eastern Counties Railway 385.6
Eastern Dispensary 621.16
Eastern Institution 830.1
Ebenezer Congregational Church 222.4
Ecology 580
Edinburgh Castle 222.3
Education 800 Education – authorities 800.2 Education – exhibitions 800.5 Education – history 800.1 Education – methods 810
Educational weeks 800.5
Eisteddfods 780.4
Elections 321
Electrical goods manufacture 680.15
Electricity supply 383.1
Elim Baptist Chapel (Pekin Street) 224.2
Embassies 320
Embroidery 740.2
Emigration 322
Employment 332 Employment, hours and conditions 332.2 Employment committees and exchanges 332.1
Engineering 690
English Martyrs Church 222.6
English Martyrs Roman Catholic Primary School 820.1
Engraving 760
Entertainments – Municipal 791 Entertainments – Public 792
Epidemics 610.2
Episcopal Jewish Chapel 226.7
Epitaphs and inscriptions 120 Epitaphs and inscriptions - Bethnal Green 120.3 Epitaphs and inscriptions – Poplar 120.2 Epitaphs and inscriptions - Stepney 120.1
Estates 720
Essex Road School 820.1
Etching 760
Ethical societies and ethics 200.2
Ethnic minorities 400
Ethnology 590
European parliament – elections 321.6
Evacuation 347.3
Evening schools 822 Evening schools – Bethnal Green 822.3 Evening schools – Poplar 822.2 Evening schools – Stepney 822.1
Execution Dock 344.4
Exhibitions – civic 359 Exhibitions – educational 800.5 Exhibitions – industrial 792.3 Exhibitions – in libraries 843.4 Exhibitions – shipping 900.6
Explosions 061
Fairclough Street School 820.1
Fairfield Road School 820.2
Fairfoot Library 850.24 Fairs 390.3
Families Together 330.18
Family Advice Centre 330.4
Family history 880.1
Family planning 622.4
Family Service Unit 330.6
Family Welfare Association 330.18
Farrance Street Schools (Burdett Road) 820.1
Fascist Party 320.5
Fasting (religious practice) 280.2
Fats industry 670.4
Fawcett Library 850
Feminist movement 320.6
Ferries 975.2
Festival of Britain exhibition 390.5
Festivals and fetes 390.5
Festivals – arts 731 Festivals – music 780.4 Festivals – religious 280.2 Festivals – secular holidays 390.4
Film festivals 731 Film festivals - Bethnal Green 731.3 Film festivals - Poplar 731.2 Film festivals - Stepney 731.1
Film groups 770.1 Films – in schools 810.1 Films – in libraries 843.2 Films – with local settings 770.2
Fine arts 730
Finnish Sailors Mission (Horseferry Branch Road) 222.11
Fire brigade 380.1
Fires and explosions 061 Fires and explosions – Bethnal Green 061.3 Fires and explosions – Poplar 061.2 Fires and explosions – Stepney 061.1
First aid posts 347.2
Flag days 390.4
Floods 530 Floods – Thames 977.1
Flora 580
Flour Mills 670.5
Flower shows 630.1
Flying 797.9
Folk dancing 793.3
Folk songs 780.1
Folklore 392
Food and food supply 640.1
Food industry 670.5
Football 797.1
Footbridges 388
Fordway Primary School 820.2
Forest Gate District Schools 820.4
Foresters (society) 366.4
Fossils 560
Foster Care 330
Fountains 612.4
Fraud 342 Freemen, admission of 359.3
Freemasonry 366.1
Free School (Gowers Walk) 820.1
Friendly Societies 367
Friends of the Earth 360
Friends of Yiddish 430
French Protestant Hospital 621.34
Friendly Societies 367 Friendly Societies – Bethnal Green 367.3 Friendly Societies – Poplar 367.2 Friendly Societies – Stepney 367.1
Fuel and fuel control 640.3
Funeral processions 280.4
Furniture – church 290.2 Furniture – domestic 640.4 Furniture – manufacture 680.5
GLC (Greater London Council) 355
Gambling 200.5
Gardening 630.1
Gardening in schools 810.3
Gas supply 383.2
Gay people 306
General strike, 1926 333
Genealogy 880.1
Geography 050
Geology 550
George Green Centre 830
George Green’s School 820.2 George Lansbury Primary School (Atley Road) 820.2
George Yard Mission 222.1
German Chapel (Commerical Road) 222.3 German churches – in Stepney 222.9 German churches – religious life 230.9
Germans 460
Ghosts 392.2
Gibraltar Chapel 226.4
Gill Street School 820.1
Girl Guides 363.2
Girls Life Brigades 363.2
Glass – manufacturing 680.1 Glass – recycling 610.1
Glengall Secondary School 820.2
Globe Centre 610.2
Globe Primary School 820.3
Globe Town 021.1
Globe Town Trust 371
Gloucester Street School 820.1
Golden Shoe Club 600.5
Good Shepherd Mission and King Edward Institute 226.13
Gordon Hall (Globe Road) 226.3
Goulston Street Market 652.13
Graffiti 390
Grand Union Canal 981
Graveyards 711
Great Assembly Hall 222.13 Great Eastern Railway 385.2
Greater London Council (GLC) 355 GLC – education authority 800.2 GLC – elections 321.4 GLC – housing 331.3
Greenwich Foot Tunnel 389.5
Green Coat School 820.3
Greenwich Railway 385.5
Grenfell School (Myrdle Road) 823.2
Grove Hall Asylum 621.24
Guardian Angels Church (Mile End Road) 222.6
Guardian Angels Roman Catholic Primary School 820.1
Guilds 650.2
Gun manufacture 680.4
Gurdwara Sikh Sangat (Harley Grove) 224.13
Gypsies 490
Gypsy caravan sites 331.1
HARCA (Housing and Regeneration Community Associations) 331.4
Hackney College Poplar Centre 821.2
Hague Primary School 820.3
Hale Street Wesleyan School 820.2
Halley Primary School 820.1
Hamlet of Ratcliff School 820.1
Harbinger School 820.2
Hare Street Market 652.31
Harley Grove Temple 224.13
Harley Street Congregational Church 224.4 Harmonic Societies 780.5
Harpley School 823.2
Harry Gosling Primary School (Henriques Street) 820.1
Hay Currie School 820.2
Hayward House 365.2
Health Centres and Health Services 620
Health visitors 610.7
Heliports 384.1
Heraldry 740.1
Hermitage Primary School (Hermitage Wall) 820.1
Heroism 300.1
Highwaymen 342
Hobbies 799
Hockey 797.13
Holiday homes and hostels (Outside of Tower Hamlets) 365.4
Holy Child School 820.2
Holy Family School 820.2
Holy Name R.C. School 820.2
Holy Trinity (Bethnal Green) 225.12
Holy Trinity (Minories) 221.33 Holy Trinity (Minories) – churchwardens, vestries 351.33 Holy Trinity (Minories) – parish 022.2
Holy Trinity (Tredegar Square) 221.13
Home economics 640
Homelessness 331.1
Homes and hostels 365 Homes and hostels - Bethnal Green 365.3 Homes and hostels - for abused women 365.2 Homes and hostels - for released prisoners 342.5 Homes and hostels - Poplar 365.2 Homes and hostels - Stepney 365.1
Homosexuals 306
Honours for bravery 300.1
Honours lists 070
Honours – military 345.4
Hop picking 390.7
Horse-drawn vehicles 386
Horseshoe manufacture 680.4
Horticulture 630
Hospital Library Service 844
Hospital Saturday Fund, Savings Associations and funds 624.3
Hospitals, asylums and dispensaries 621
Hostels 365
Housebound Library Service 844
Housing 331 Housing – conditions 331.1 Housing – council housing 331.2 Housing – housing associations 331.4 Housing – LCC and GLC 331.3 Housing – private 331.1 Housing and Regeneration Community Associations (HARCA) 331.4 Housing Associations 331.4
Howrah House School 820.2
Huguenots 480
Huguenot Churches in Stepney 222.8 Huguenot – religious life 230.8 Huguenot – weaving, weaver’s houses 680.2
Hungarians 490
Hunger marches 333
Hurdling 797.7
Hutchinson Market 652.13
Hygiene 610.4
Hydraulic pumping stations 690.1
ILEA (Inner London Education Authority) 800.2
Ice hockey 797.13
Immigration 400
Indians 440
Indoor amusements 798
Industrial accidents 600.5
Industrial archaeology 660
Industrial estates 660 Industrial estates – town planning 700
Industrial exhibitions 792.3
Industries 660
Infectious diseases 610.2
Information office after 1967 359 Information office before 1967 (in Bethnal Green Library) 830.30
Inks industry 670.2
Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) 800.2
Inns 653
Inscriptions 120
Insurance and sickness benefits 332.3
Insurance companies 650.6
International brigade 345
International voluntary service 330.9
Inventions 660.1
Irish people 470
Iron and steel engineering 690.1
Iron bridge 388.2
Iron manufacture 680.4
Islamic religious associations 240.1
Isle of Dogs 036
Isle of Dogs Community Foundation 360.2
Isle of Dogs Market 652.25
Italians 490
Jack the Ripper 341
Jagonari Centre 360.1
Japanese people 420
Jehovah’s Witness churches in Stepney 222.10
Jewellery 730.1
Jewish Board of Guardians 353.1
Jewish Maternity Hospital 621.15
Jewish Youth Voluntary Service 330.5
Jews 430
Jewish religious life 230.7
Jews Free School 820.1
Jews’ Hospital Mile End 621.17
Jews’ Temporary Shelter 365.1
Job centres 332.1
John Pounds Mission (Wellesley Street) 222.2
John Scurr Primary School (Cephas Street) 820.1
Johnson Street Roman Catholic School 820.1
Joint Docklands Action Group 322.20
Jubilees 072
Judaism 230.7
Judo 797.3
Jumble sales 651.2
Juries 344.3
Jury lists 110 Jury lists – Stepney 110.1 Jury lists – Poplar 110.2 Jury lists – Bethnal Green 110.3
Justice system 344
Justices of the peace 344.2
Jute manufacture 680.3
Karate 797.3
Kindergarten 823.4
King Edward Ragged Schools 820.1
King George V Dock 965.1
Kingsley Hall 360.2
Kitchens and meal centres 640.1
Knapp Secondary School 820.2
Kobil Nazrul Primary School 820.1
Krays – crimes 341
LCC School of Engineering and navigation 821.2
LIFFE (London International Financial Futures Exchange) 650.5
LMS Railway 385.3
LNE Railway 385.1
Labour colonies 355.1
Labour disputes 333
Labour exchanges 332.1
Labour Party 320.1
Land and estates 710 Land and estates – Bethnal Green 710.3 Land and estates – Poplar 710.2 Land and estates – Stepney 710.1
Land pollution 610.3
Langdon Park School 820.2
Lansbury Institute after 1970 822 Lansbury Institute before 1970 822.2
Lansbury Library 850.23
Lansbury market 652.22
Lansbury Project 365.2
Lascars 440
Latimar Congregational Church (Bridge Street) 222.4
Law Centres 344.5
Lawdale Primary School 820.3
Lawrence Junior Boys’ School 820.3
Lead manufacture 680.4
Learning difficulties – schools 823.2 Learning difficulties – services and associations 620.2
Leather goods manufacture 680.11
Lectures – adult education 830
Lectures – libraries 843.1
Lee Valley Regional Park 980
Legal advice centres 344.5
Legends 392.1
Leisure centres 797
Lesbians 306
LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender) people 306
Liberal Democrats 320.3
Liberal party 320.3
Liberty of Norton Folgate 029.1 Liberty of Norton Folgate – vestries 351.19
Liberty of Old Artillery Ground 028.2 Liberty of Old Artillery Ground – vestries 351.20
Liberty of the Tower 028.2 Liberty of the Tower – vestries 351.21
Libraries and Idea Stores 850
Library administration 840 Library administration – activities story hours 843.3 Library administration – annual reports and statistics 849 Library administration – catalogues and publications 848 Library administration – departments 847 Library administration – extension work 843 Library administration – legislation 842 Library administration – library hours 842 Library administration – publicity 845 Library administration – staff 841.1 Library administration – staff manuals 847 Library administration – stationary 849
Lifeboats 914
Lightermen 967.1
Lighthouse Mission (Devons Road) 224.2
Lighthouses 914
Lighting and heating (public services) 383
Lime kilns 690.2
Limehouse 024
Limehouse Cut 981
Limehouse Fields Library 850.17
Limehouse Library 850.12
Listed buildings 721
Literary societies 830 Literary societies – Bethnal Green 830.3 Literary societies – Poplar 830.2 Literary societies - Stepney 830.1
Literature (Local authors or subjects) 870
Literary criticism 870.1
Litography 760
Lithuanian Roman Church of St. Casimir (The Oval) 226.6
Litter 610.1
Little Alie Street Baptist Church 222.2
Little Sisters of the Assumption (Wellington Way) 224.6
Livery companies 650.2
Loan clubs 336
Local government buildings 722
Local government service 357 Local government – officials, chief officers 357.1 Local government – pensions, salaries 357.4 Local government – staff, departments 357.2 Local government – trade unions and other associations 357.5
Local History Library and Archives 850.10
Locksmiths 680.4
Log books (shipping) 916 London 2012 (Olympic Games) 796.48
London and Blackwall Railway 385.1
London Arena 797
London Buddhist Centre 226.13
London Burkers 341
London Chest Hospital 621.31
London City Mission 270.2
London College of Furniture 821.1
London County Council (LCC) 355 LCC – ambulance services 624.2 LCC – education authority 800.2 LCC – elections 321.4 LCC – housing 331.3
London Commodity Exchange 650.5
London dispensary 621.19
London Docklands 015.1
London Docks (1805-1968) 964.5
London Hospital 621.1
London Hydraulic Power Company 690.1
London Independent Hospital 621.19
London International Financial Futures Exchange 650.5
London Jamme Masjid (Brick Lane) 222.13
London Jewish Hospital 621.13
London Opera Centre 780.6
London Residuary Body 355
London School Board 800.2
London, Tilbury and Southend Railway 385.3
London Transport 386
London Underground 385.4
Lotteries 200.5
Lower Chapman Street School 820.1
Luna Park Market 652.19
Lutheran churches in Stepney 222.13
Lycett Chapel (Mile End Road) 222.3
Maces – church 290.2 Maces – civic regalia 391
Machzike Hadath Synagogue 430
Magdalen Hospital 370.1
Magic 200.1
Magistrates 344.2
Malmsbury Primary School 820.2
Maltese people 490
Manorfield Primary School 820.2
Mansford Street Church and Mission 226.13
Mansford Street School 820.3
Manufacturing 680
Maps and plans 053 Maps and plans – Bethnal Green 053.3 Maps and plans – Poplar 053.2 Maps and plans – Stepney 053.1
Mariners Friend Society 240.1
Marion Richardson Primary School (Senrab Street) 820.1
Market House (Bow) 652.24
Markets 652
Marner Street School 820.2
Marriage rates 310
Marriage registers 120
Martial Arts 797.3
Masses (religious) 280.1
Match Girls Strike, 1888 (Match Women’s Strike) 333
Matchmaking Industry 670.1
Maternity 622
Mathematics 510
May Day 390.4
Mayflower Primary School 820.2
Mayors 358.2 Mayors - receptions 359.2 Mayors – regalia 391.1
Meal centres and meals on wheels 640.1
Medals 730.3
Medical Associations 624
Medical missions 625 Medical missions – Bethnal Green 625.3 Medical missions – Poplar 625.2 Medical missions – Stepney 652.1
Medical profession 624
Medicine 620 Medicine – manufacture of 670.6
Medland Hall Congregational Church (Ratcliff) 222.4
Memorials 120
Mental health 620.2
Meteorology 530
Methodist Churches in Bethnal Green 226.3 Methodist Churches in Poplar 224.3 Methodist Churches in Stepney 224.3 Methodism 230.3
Methylated spirit drinking 200.3
Metropolitan District and Metropolitan Railway 385.4
Midmay Mission Hospital 621.33
Midmay Mission to the Jews (Philpot Street) 222.7
Mile End 021
Mile End and Bow District Synagogue 224.7
Mile End Central School (Myrtle Street) 820.1
Mile End Hospital 621.11
Mile End Leper Hospital 621.18
Mile End New Town 021 Mile End New Town – vestries 351.1
Mile End Old Town 021 Mile End Old Town – vestries 351.11 Mile End Old Town – elections 321.1
Mile End Old Town Industrial School 820.1
Mile End Park 710.1
Mile End Waste Market 625.15
Mile End Workhouse 335.1
Military Associations and awards 345.5
Military history 345
Mill Yard Seventh Day Baptists Church 222.2
Milling 670.5
Millwall 036
Millwall Central School 820.2
Millwall Docks 964.4
Millwall Evening Institute 820.2
Millwall Extension Railway 385.2
Millwall – Greenwich Subway 389.5
Mineralogy 550
Minories 022.2
Mirrors manufacture 680.1
Missionary work 270 Missionary work – Bethnal Green 270.3 Missionary work – Poplar 270.2 Missionary work – Stepney 207.1
Mitre Children’s Mission (Limehouse) 222.3
Mobile Library Service 850.18
Model yachting 797.8
Monasteries 210.1
Monteith Road School 820.2
Monumental inscriptions 120
Monuments and plaques 712 Monuments and plaques – Bethnal Green 712.3 Monuments and plaques – Poplar 712.2 Monuments and plaques – Stepney 712.1
Mormon Churches in Stepney 222.13
Morpeth School 820.3
Morality rates 310
Mortuaries – Bethnal Green 610.3 Mortuaries – Poplar 610.2 Mortuaries – Stepney 610.1
Mosques – Bethnal Green 226.14 Mosques – Stepney 222.14 Mosques – Poplar 224.14
Motoring 797.10
Mowlem Primary School 820.3
Mudchute 036
Mulberry School 820.1
Municipal administration 350
Municipal buildings 722
Municipal entertainers 791
Murals 750
Murders 341
Museums 851
Museums of ships, shipping and docks 900.6
Music 780 Music – associations, societies clubs 780.5 Music – concerts and festivals 780.4 Music – in schools 810.25 Music – religious 781
Music halls 795
Music library 850.33
Musical instruments manufacture 680.6
Myrtle Street Primary School 820.1
Nathaniel Heckford School 823
National Front 320.5
National Insurance 332.3
National Library for Women 850
National Library Week 845
National Lottery 200.5
National Service 345.3
Natural History 590
Neighbourhoods 354.41
Neighbourhood elections 321.7
New West End Synagogue Social Services League 330.11
Newby Place Centre 620
News International 651.4 News International – print workers’ dispute 333
Nicholas Gibson Primary School 820.1
Nigerians 490
Noise pollution 610.3
North Bow Congregational Church (Armagh Rd) 224.4
North London Railway 385.2
Nursery gardens 630.2
Nursery rhymes 392.1
Nursery schools 823.4
Nursing 623
Nursing Sisters of St. John the Divine 623.1
Oaklands School 820.3
Oban Street School 820.2
Occult 200.1
Oddfellows 366.3
Office blocks 650
Official insignia 391.1
Official robes 391.1
Oils industry 670.4
Old Age Pensions 334
Old Artillerary Ground 028.2
Old Castle Street School 820.1
Old Ford 031
Old Ford and North Bow Jewish Schools 820.2
Old Ford Methodist Church (Parnell Road) 224.3
Old Ford Methodist Church (Old Ford Road) 224.3
Old Ford School 820.2
Old Mahogany Bar (Grace’s Alley) 222.3
Old National School Foundation 820.3
Old Palace School 820.2
Old people 334 Old people – associations and welfare organisations 334.5 Old people – day centres 364.5 Old people – outings 334.3 Old people – workshops 334.4
Old people’s homes 365 Old people’s homes - Bethnal Green 365.3 Old people’s homes - Poplar 365.2 Old people’s homes - Stepney 365.1
Olga Primary School 820.3
Olympic Games 796.48
One O’clock Clubs 823.3
One Stop Shops 357.2
Open air schools 823.3
Open Spaces 710
Opera 792.2 Opera – municipal 791.2
Opera houses 780.6
Operatic societies 780.3
Orchestras 780.2
Orphanages 364 Orphanages – Bethnal Green 364.3 Orphanages – Poplar 364.2 Orphanages – Stepney 364.1
Osmani Primary School (Vallance Road) 820.1
Our Lady and St. Catherine of Siena (Bow Road) 224.6
Our Lady of the Assumption (Victoria Park Sq) 226.6
Our Lady of the Assumption School 820.3
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (St Paul’s Way) 222.6
Our Lady Immaculate (Commercial Road) 222.6
Our Lady Immaculate Primary School (Copenhagen Place) 820.1
Out and Out Mission 114.13
Oxford House 360.3
PDSA (People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals) 631.3
Pacifism 346.1
Paddy’s Goose (Shadwell) 222.3
Pageants 390.5
Paint manufacture 670.2
Painting 750
Painting trade 690.2
Pakistanis 440
Palaeontology 560
Paper manufacture 680.9
Parents’ unions (education) 800.4
Parish registers 120
Parking problems and control 387.3
Parks 710 Parks – Bethnal Green 710.3 Parks – Poplar 710.2 Parks – Stepney 710.1
Parliamentary elections 321.5
Parmiter’s School 820.3
Passion plays 280.3
Peace movements 346.1
Pearly Kings and queens 391.2
Peasants’ Revolt 333
Peculiar people – chapels in Stepney 222.10 Peculiar people – chapels in Poplar 224.13
Pennyfields 034
Pensions – local government 357.4 Pensions – old age 334
People’s Arcade 652.18
People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) 631.3
People’s Market 652.18
People’s Palace 830.1
People’s Palace Theatre 795.1
Petrology 550
Pets 631
Petticoat Lane Market 652.1
Pewter manufacture 680.4
Phoenix Special School 823.1
Photography 770
Photography clubs 770.1
Physical geography 550
Physically disabled people 620.3
Physics 530
Pigeon racing 799.2
Pilots (sea and river) 914.3
Piracy 912
Place names 055 Place names - Bethnal Green 055.3 Place names - Poplar 055.2 Place names - Stepney 055.1
Plaques 712
Plant life 580
Plastics furniture 680.15
Play centres 824 Play centres – Bethnal Green 824.3 Play centres – Poplar 824.2 Play centres – Stepney 824.1
Playgrounds 710
Playgroups 823.4
Plays 870 Plays – commercial productions 792.2 Plays – in schools 810.5 Plays – in libraries 843.2 Plays – municipal productions 791.2 Plays – religious 280.3
Pleasure gardens 653 Pleasure gardens – Bethnal Green 653.3 Pleasure gardens – Poplar 653.2 Pleasure gardens – Stepney 653.1
Plimsoll Street Presbyterian Church 224.5
Police forces 340.1
Police voluntary organisations 340.3 Police stations 340.2
Political associations and political parties 320
Poll tax 356
Pollution 610.3
Pool of London Partnership 700.1
Poor Jews Temporary Shelter 365.1
Poor law 335
Poor law institutions 335.1
Poor relief 335.2
Poor’s land 720.4
Pop groups 780.2
Poplar – borough 030
Poplar – parish (All Saints) 033
Poplar and Berger Tabernacle 224.2
Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum 621.22
Poplar Associate Synagogue (Bow Lane) 224.7
Poplar Association for Befriending Girls 330.19
Poplar Borough Council 354.2 Poplar Borough Council – elections 321.3 Poplar Borough Council – finance 356.3
Poplar Chapel 223.12
Poplar Church (All Saints, Poplar) 223
Poplar Deanery Moral Welfare Association 330.19
Poplar Docks 964.3
Poplar Hospital 621.2
Poplar House 240.2
Poplar Library (Brunswick Road) 850.2
Poplar Library (Poplar High Street) 850.2
Poplar Men’s Institute 822.2
Poplar Methodist Church (East India Dock Road) 224.3
Poplar Rates Dispute, 1921 356.5
Poplar Recreation Ground 710.2
Poplar School of Engineering and Navigation 821.2
Population statistics 310
Poplar Technical College 821.2
Poplar Training School 820.4
Port of London 963 Port of London – Museums 900.6
Port of London Authority 960 Port of London Authority Police 961
Portman Place School 820.3
Postal services 380.3
Pott Street Congregational Church (Bethnal Green Road) 226.3
Pottery manufacture 680.1
Poultry keeping 631.1
Poverty 335.2 Poverty – welfare organisations 335.5
Prayer books 261
Precinct of St. Katharine’s 028.1
Presbyterian Church (Mornington Road) 224.5
Presbyterian Mission School (Upper North Street) 820.2 Presbyterian churches in Poplar 224.5 Presbyterian churches in Stepney 222.5
Press gangs 345.3 Primitive Methodist Church (Driffield Road) 224.3
Primitive Methodist Church (Old Ford Road) 224.3
Printers 651.4
Priories 210.1
Prison hulks 908
Prison release hostels 342.5
Prisons 344.4
Pritchards Road School 820.3
Probation work 342.5
Processions 390.5
Processions – religious 280.4
Property sales 720
Prostitution 342.3
Providence Chapel (Hackney Road) 226.2
Provident Societies 367
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association 620.2
Public Administration 350 Public Administration – Bethnal Green 350.3 Public Administration – Poplar 350.2 Public Administration – Stepney 350.1
Public assistance 335.2
Public buildings 722 Public buildings – Bethnal Green 722.3 Public buildings – Poplar 722.2 Public buildings – Stepney 722.1
Public conveniences 610
Public finance 356
Public health and hygiene 610 Public health and hygiene- Bethnal Green 610.3 Public health and hygiene – Poplar 610.2 Public health and hygiene – Stepney 610.1
Public Houses 653 Public Houses – Bethnal Green 653.3 Public Houses – Poplar 653.2 Public Houses – Stepney 653.1
Public safety 600
Public toilets 610
Publishers 651.4
Pumping Stations 690.1
Quaker churches in Bethnal Green 226.13 Quaker churches in Poplar 224.13 Quaker churches in Stepney 222.13
Quays 966
Queen Adelaide’s Dispensary 621.36
Queen Elizabeth Hospital For Children 621.32
Queen Mary and Westfield College (Queen Mary) 830.1
R.S.P.C.A. 631.3
Race relations 300.2
Race riots 300.2
Racism 300.1
Radio 796 Radio – in schools 810.1
Radley College Mission 222.1
Rag Fair 652.17
Ragged Schools Union 800.2
Railways 385
Raines Foundation School (Old Bethnal Green Road) 820.3
Raines Foundation School (Arbour Square) 820.1
Raleigh Infants’ School 810
Randall’s Market 652.23
Rangers 363.2
Ratcliff 026
Ratcliff Charity 370.1
Ratcliff Fire, 1794 026
Ratepayers’ Associations 356.6 Ratepayers’ Associations – Bethnal Green 356.63 Ratepayers’ Associations – Poplar 356.62 Ratepayers’ Associations – Stepney 356.61
Rationing 080
Re-armament 346.1
Recreation 790
Recreational institutes 824 Recreational institutes – Bethnal Green 824.3 Recreational institutes – Poplar 824.2 Recreational institutes – Stepney 824.1
Recruitment (military) 345.3
Recycling 610.1
Red Church 225.2
Red Cross 624.1
Red routes schemes 387.3
Redcoat School (Stepney Green) 820.1
Redlands Primary School (Redmans Rd) 820.1
Redmead Lane Hall, Wapping 222.3
Re-establishment centres 335.4
Refugees 348
Refuse 610.1
Regent’s Canal 981
Regent’s Canal Dock 964.7
Regiments 345.1
Registers 120 Registers – Bethnal Green 120.3 Registers – Poplar 120.2 Registers – Stepney 120.1
Reheboth Baptist Church (Wellesley Street) 222.2
Religious ceremonies 280
Religious colleges 241 Religious colleges – Bethnal Green 241.3 Religious colleges – Poplar 241.2 Religious colleges – Stepney 241.1
Religious customs 280
Religious festivals 280.2
Religious intolerance 300.2
Religious life 230
Religious music 781
Religious plays 280.3
Religious processions 280.4
Religious societies 240 Religious societies – Bethnal Green 240.3 Religious societies – Poplar 240.2 Religious societies – Stepney 240.1
Remembrance Day 390.4
Rent strikes 331.5
Rents 331.1
Restaurants 655
Rich Mix Centre 851
Rifle Shooting 797.12
Riots 333 Riots – involving far right parties 320.5
River busses 975.1
River Thames 970
Rivers, lost 982
Road building 690.4
Road accidents 600.1
Road cleaning 610.1
Road communications 387
Road conditions 387.3
Road safety 600.2
Road transport 386
Roads 387 Roads – making, repair and maintenance 387.2 Roads – parking problems and traffic conditions 387.3
Robbery 342
Robert Montefiore School (Vallance Road) 820.1
Rochelle School 820.3
Rochelle School (for special needs/disabilities) 823.2
Roland House 363.1
Roman Road Library 850.32
Roman Road Market – Bethnal Green 652.33
Roman Road Market – Bow 652.2
Roman Road Primary School 820.2
Rope making 680.3
Rotary clubs 362 Rotary clubs - Bethnal Green 362.3 Rotary clubs - Poplar 362.2 Rotary clubs - Stepney 362.1
Rotherhithe Tunnel 389.4
Rovers 363.1
Rowing 797.4
Royal Albert Dock 965.2
Royal Foundation of St. Katharine 240.1
Royal College of St. Katharine 622.1
Royal Hospital of St. Katharine 240.1 Royal London Hospital 621.1
Royal Mint 680.4
Royal Mint Street Library 850.16
Royal National Lifeboat Institution 914.2
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) 631.3
Royal Victoria Dock 965.2
Royal visits 071 Royal visits – Bethnal Green 071.3 Royal visits – Poplar 071.2 Royal visits – Stepney 071.1
Royalty and the Borough 070
Rubber manufacture 680.14
Rubbish 610.1
Rugby 797.1
Running 797.7
Rural deaneries 212
Rutland Primary School 820.1
SPLASH (South Poplar and Limehouse Action for Secure Housing) 360.2
Sack manufacture 680.15
Sadique School (Bigland Street) 820.1
Safe Neighbourhoods Unit 360
Sailing barges 909
Sailing ships 906
Sailors – homes and hostels 365.1 Sailors – missions 915
Sailors Palace 365.1
St Agnes R.C. School 820.2
St Andrew (Brickfield Road) 223.11
St Andrew (Viaduct St/St Andrew Street) 225.7
St Andrew’s Hospital 621.22
St Anne (Limehouse) 221.1
St Anne (Limehouse) - vestries, churchwardens 351.17
St Anne (Limehouse) - parish 024
St Anne (Underwood Road) 222.6
St Anne’s Roman Catholic Primary School 820.1
St Anne’s School (Bow) 820.2
St Anne’s School (Dixon St) 820.1
St Anthony 225.15
St Augustine 221.14
St Barnabas (Grove Road) 225.13
St Barnabas (Whitechapel) 221.34
St Bartholomew 225.3
St Benet 221.30
St Bernard’s School (St Matthew’s Road) 820.3
St Boniface German Chapel (Adler St) 222.9
St Botolph Without Aldgate 221.9
St Botolph Without Aldgate – Churchwardens, vestries 351.13
St Botolph Without Aldgate – Parish 022.1
St Catharine’s High School 820.2
St Clare Convent 221.33
St Clement’s Hospital 621.21
St Cuthbert (Isle of Dogs) 223.19
St Dunstans 221
St Dunstans – churchwardens, vestries 351
St Dunstans – parish 020
St Edmund (Millwall) 224.6
St Edmund’s School (West Ferry Road) 820.2
St Faith 221.23
St Frideswide 223.10
St Gabriel 223.8
St Gabriel’s Parochial School 820.2
St George Ambulance and Nursing Corps 623.6
St George-in-the-East 221.3
St George-in-the-East – churchwardens, vestries 351.15
St George-in-the-East – parish 025
St George-in-the-East – vestry elections 321.1
St George-in-the-East Hospital (Raine Street) 621.19
St George-in-the-East School (Cable Street) 820.1
St George’s Chapel (Cable Street) 222.3
St George’s Library 850.13
St George’s Men’s Care centre 335.3
St George’s Men’s Care Centre, day care unit 620.2
St George’s Mission 222.1
St George’s Nature Study Museum 851
St Hilda’s Community Centre 360.3
St James (Ratcliffe) 221.12
St James the Great 225.2
St James the Less 225.5
St John (Golding St) 221.29
St John (Isle of Dogs) 223.18
St John (Wapping) 221.6
St John churchwardens vestries etc 351.14
St John’s Parish 029
St John of Wapping Charity School (Scandrett St) 820.1
St John the Evangelist (Cambridge Heath Road) 225.1
St John’s C.E. Primary School 820.3
St John the Baptist’s R.C. School 820.3
St John-the-Evangelist (Halley St) 221.10
St Joseph’s School (Gun St) 820.1
St Jude (Old Bethnal Green Rd) 225.6
St Jude (Whitechapel) 221.24
St Jude’s School 820.3
St Katharine, Collegiate Church of 210
St Katharine, Royal Foundation of 240.1
St Katharine, Royal Hospital of 240.1
St Katharine’s Docks 964.6
St Katharine’s, Precinct of 028.1
St Katharine’s, churchwardens, vestries etc. 351.24
St Katharine’s Yacht Marina 964.6
St Leonard, Bromley 032
St Leonard’s Road School 820.2
St Luke (Burdett Road) 221.17
St Luke (Isle of Dogs) 223.20
St Luke’s School (Canal Rd) 820.1
St Luke’s School (West Ferry Rd) 820.2
St Margaret’s House 360.3
St Mark (Goodman’s Fields) 221.16
St Mark (Victoria Park) 223.5
St Mary (Bow) 223.1
St Mary (Bow) Churchwardens, vestries, etc. 351.31
St Mary (Bow) parish 031
St Mary (Bow) vestry elections 321.1
St Mary (Bromley St Leonard) 223.2
St Mary (Cable Street) 221.11
St Mary (Isle of Dogs) 210.1
St Mary (Spital Square) 221.19
St Mary and St Joseph’s (Canton St) 224.6
St Mary and St Joseph’s School 820.2
St Mary and St Michael (Commercial Road) 222.6
St Mary and St Michael RC Primary school 820.1
St Mary and St Michael’s School 820.2
St Mary Matfelon (Whitechapel) 221.2
St Mary Matfelon, churchwardens, vestries etc. 351.22
St Mary Matfelon, parish 022
St Matthew (Bethnal Green) 225
St Matthew, churchwardens, vestries, etc. 351.4
St Matthew, parish 040
St Matthew, vestry elections 321.1
St Matthew (Pell Street) 221.28
St Matthew’s Row Library 850.35
St Matthias (Hare Street/Chilton Street) 225.4
St Matthias (Poplar) 223.12
St Matthias, churchyard 711.2
St Matthias, C.E. Primary School (Poplar) 820.2
St Matthias School (Bethnal Green) 820.3
St Michael and All Angels 223.7
St Nicholas (Blackwall) 223.14
St Olave 221.31
St Patrick (Wapping) 222.6
St Patrick and St Augustine’s Catholic Schools (John St) 820.1
St Patrick’s R.C. School 820.1
St Paul (Bow Common) 221.20
St Paul (Dock Street) 221.35
St Paul (Gosset Street) 225.8
St Paul (St Stephen’s Road) 223.6
St Paul Presbyterian Church (West Ferry Road) 224.5
St Paul (Shadwell) 221.5
St Paul, Churchwardens, vestries etc 351.18
St Paul, parish 027
St Paul, vestry elections 321.1
St Paul’s C.E. Primary School (Wellclose square) 820.1
St Paul’s Industrial School 820.1
St Paul’s Way School 820.1
St Peter (Cephas Street) 221.18
St Peter (Garford Street) 223.17
St Peter (St Peter’s St) 225.11
St Peter (Wapping) 221.21
St Peter ad Vincula 221.25
St Peter’s Commercial School 820.1
St Peter’s London Docks Primary School 820.1
St Peter’s School 820.3
St Philip (Newark Street) 221.15
St Philip Howard R.C. School (Upper North Street) 820.2
St Philip the Apostle 225.14
St Rhystyd Welsh Church 222.13
St Saviour 223.16
St Saviour’s School 820.2
St Simon Zelotes 225.9
St Stephen (East India Dock Road) 223.15
St Stephen (Spitalfields) 221.22
St Stephen (Tredegar Road) 223.4
St Stephen’s School 820.1
St Thomas (Arbour Square) 221.26
St Thomas (Baroness Road) 225.10
Salmon Lane Mission 222.13
Salvage 610.1
Salvation Army Mission in Stepney 222.12
Samplers 740.2
Sanitation 610
Savings 336
Scarlet dying 680.2
School Board for London 800.2
School care committees, governors, managers 800.3
School treatment centres 622.2
Schools 820 Schools – Bethnal Green 820.3 Schools – outside of Tower Hamlets 820.4 Schools – Poplar 820.2 Schools – Stepney 820.1
Science 500
Sclater Street Market 652.31
Scouts 363.1
Sculpture 730.1
Sea cadets 345.2
Seamen’s Bethel (Old Gravel Lane) 222.4
Sedgwick Centre 797
Senrab Street School 820.1
Sermons 250
Settlements 360 Settlements – Bethnal Green 360.3 Settlements – Poplar 360.2 Settlements – Stepney 360.1
Settles Street Primary School 820.1
Seven Mills Primary School 820.2
Sewage 610.1
Sewardstone Primary School 820.3
SHADA (Stepney Housing and Development Agency) 700.1
Shadwell 027
Shadwell Fish Market 652.16
Shanties 951
Shapla Primary School 820.1
Shekinal School 820.1
Shipbuilding history in Tower Hamlets 901.2
Shipwright’s Day 390.4
Shoe manufacture 680.11
Shoeblack Brigade 652.40
Shooting 797.12
Shop signs 651.3
Shops 651.2
Shoreditch and Bethnal Green Nursing Association 623.3
Shoreditch Tabernacle (Hackney Road) 226.2
Sickle Cell Disease – information centres 360.3
Sickness benefit 332.3
Sidney Street Library 850.14
Sidney Street, Siege of 341
Signs manufacture 680.15
Sikh temples 224.13
Silver plate manufacture 680.4
Single Street Schools 820.1
Sir George Wheler’s Chapel 221.19
Sir John Cass’s Foundation and Red Coat School 820.1
Sir John Jolles’ School 820.2
Sir Thomas (Colet) School 820.1
Sir William Burrough Primary School 820.1
Sisters Marie Auxiliatrice Convent 224.6
Slate manufacture 680.13
Slate clubs 336
Sclater Street Market 652.31
Slums 331.1
Small arms manufacture 680.4
Smoke control 610.3
Snooker 798.1
Snuff manufacture 680.15
Soap industry 670.4
Social clubs 360 Social clubs – Bethnal Green 360.3 Social clubs – Poplar 360.2 Social clubs – Stepney 360.1
Social conditions 330
Social Democratic Party 320.7
Social life 300
Social services and social work 330
Socialism 320.1
Societies 366
Solar energy 580
Somalis 490
Somerford Street School 820.3
Songs with local settings 780.1
Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor 430
Soup kitchens 335.2
South Poplar and Limehouse Action for Secure Housing 360.2
South Poplar War Emergency School 820.2
The Space (Theatre) 795.2
Spanish Civil War 345
Special police 340.3
Special schools 823
Spicer Street Mission 222.13
Spiritualism 200.1
Spitalfields 023
Spitalfields Great Synagogue 222.7
Spitalfields Housing and Planning Rights Service 331
Spitalfields Market 652.11
Sports 797
Sports in schools 825
Sports centres 797
Springs (natural) 612.1
Square dancing 793.1
Squatters 331.1
Stables 631
Stadiums 797
Stamp collecting 799.1
Starch industry 670.5
Statistics 310 Statistics – Bethnal Green 310.3 Statistics – Poplar 310.2 Statistics – Stepney 310.1
Statues 730.1
Stebon Primary School 820.1
Steel 690.1
Steels Lane Dispensary 621.19
Stephen Hawking School 823.2
Stepney 020
Stepney Action Research Team 270
Stepney Baptist Academical Institution 241.1
Stepney Borough Council 354.1 Stepney Borough Council – elections 321.3 Stepney Borough Council – finance 356.2
Stepney Borough Council Information Service 850.19
Stepney Central Hall 222.3
Stepney Church 221
Stepney Fair 390.3
Stepney Green School 820.1
Stepney Greencoat Primary School 820.1
Stepney Housing and Development Agency 700.1
Stepney Jewish Primary School 820.1
Stepney Meeting Day Schools 820.1
Stepney Meeting House (Spring Garden Place) 222.4
Stepney Society 020
Stewart Headlam School 820.3
Street cleaning 610.1
Street cries 780.1
Street entertainers 792.3
Street furniture 600.3
Street games 390.8
Street musicians 780.2
Street songs 780.1
Street trading 652.4
Strikes 333 Strikes – docks 937.2 Strikes – local government 357.2 Strikes – seaman 9112 Strikes – social workers 357.2 Strikes – teachers 800.4
Subways 389
Suffragettes 320.6
Sugar industries 670.9
Suicide 342
Sunday Schools in Bethnal Green 226 Sunday Schools in Poplar 224
Sunday Schools in Stepney 222
Supermarkets 651.2
Susan Lawrence Primary School 820.2
Swanlea School 820.1
Sweating system 332.2
Swedish Church (Princess Square) 222.11
Swimming 797.5
Swimming pools 611 Swimming pools – Bethnal Green 611.3 Swimming pools – Poplar 611.2 Swimming pools – Stepney 611.1
Synagogues Stepney 222.7
Tabernacle (Stepney Green) 222.3
Tailoring 680.8
Tapestries 740.2
Tar industry 670.2
Taverns 653
Tea industry 670.8
Teacher training centres 800.6
Teachers’ associations 800.4
Technical Schools 821 Technical Schools – Bethnal Green 821.3 Technical Schools – Poplar 821.2 Technical Schools - Stepney 821.1
Teesdale School 820.3
TELCO 360
Telecommunications 380.3
Telegraph services 380.3
Television 796
Temperance 200.3
Templars School 823.2
Tenants associations 331.5
Tent Street Misison 226.13
Territorial Army 345.1
Textile printing 680.2
Thames 970
Thames police 974
Thames tunnel 389.3
Theatres and music halls 795 Theatres and music halls – Bethnal Green 795.3 Theatres and music halls – Poplar 795.2 Theatres and music halls – Stepney 795.1
Theft 342
Theology 211
Thomas Buxton Primary School 820.1
Thomas Road Central School 820.1
Tilbury Docks 965.4
Timber trade 690.3
Tin manufacture 680.4
Tobacco and tobacco pipe manufacture 680.15
Tokens 730.3
Toll booths 387.1
Tom Thumb’s Arch 388
Tourism 790.1
Tower Beach 028
Tower Hamlets (Borough of) 010
Tower Hamlets – redevelopment 700
Tower Hamlets Borough Council 354.4 Tower Hamlets – coat of arms 740.1 Tower Hamlets – elections 321.3 Tower Hamlets – finance 356
Tower Hamlets Cemetery and Cemetery park 711.1
Tower Hamlets Community Transport 360
Tower Hamlets Environment Forum 580
Tower Hamlets Foster Care Unit 330
Tower Hamlets Health Campaign 360
Tower Hamlets International Solidarity 360
Tower Hamlets Mission 222.13
Tower Hamlets Reminiscence Project 330
Tower Hamlets School for girls 820.1
Tower Hamlets social services 330.1
Tower Hamlets Society 330.8
Tower Hamlets Youth Committee 361.1
Tower Hill and Tower of London 028
Tower Hill Roman Catholic School 820.1
Town Criers 357.2
Town planning 700 Town planning – Bethnal Green 700.3 Town planning – Stepney 700.2 Town planning – Poplar 700.1
Town twinning 359.1
Toy libraries associations 823
Toynbee Hall 830.1 Toy manufacture 680.10
Trade organisations 650.1
Trade unions 332.4 Trade unions - dock workers 967.3 Trade unions - local government workers 357.5 Trade unions - teachers 800.4
Trades – commercial 651.2 Trades – professional 651.1
Trafalgar Square School 820.1
Traffic conditions 387.3
Training centres – industrial 660.2
Trams 386
Transgender people 306
Transport 384
Tredegar House for Probationers 623.4
Tredegar Road Wesleyan School 820.2
Trials 341
Trinity Almshouses 370.1
Trinity Congregational Church 224.4
Trinity Hospital 370.1
Trinity House 914.1
Trinity Methodist Church (East India Dock Road) 224.3
Trolleybuses 386
Truancy centres 823.5
Tube shelter library 850.34
Tuberculosis 610.2
Tunnels 389
Turnpikes 387.1
Umbrella manufacture 680.15
Unemployment 335.2
Unionists 320.2
Unitarian Churches in Stepney 222.10
United Methodist Church (Bruce Road) 224.3
University House 360.3
Upper North Street School 820.2
Urban Learning Foundation 800.6
Vaccination 610.2
Vagrancy 353.3
Vandalism 342.1
Variety shows – commercial 792.1 Variety shows – municipal 791.1
Varnish manufacture 670.2
Veneer manufacture 680.5
Vermin 610.5
Vestments 290.2
Vestries 351
Vestry elections 321.1
Vestry finance 356.1
Veterinary hospitals 631.3
Victoria Park and Victoria Park Lido 710.2
Victoria Park Baptist Church (Grove Road) 226.2
Victory celebrations 083 Victory celebrations - Bethnal Green 083.3 Victory celebrations - Poplar 083.2 Victory celebrations - Stepney 083.1
Video 796
Vietnamese People 490
Vinegar industry 670.3
Virginia School 820.3
Voluntary Services 372 Voluntary Services – Bethnal Green 372.3 Voluntary Services – Poplar 372.2 Voluntary Services – Stepney 372.1
Voters’ lists 110 Voters’ lists – Bethnal Green 110.3 Voters’ lists – Poplar 110.2 Voters’ lists – Stepney 110.1
Wages 332.2
Walking 797.7
Wallpaper manufacture 680.9
Wapping 029
Wapping Claimants Union 330.13
Wapping District Charity School 820.1
Wapping Hydraulic Pumping Station (Wapping Wall) 690.1
Wapping Library 850.15
Wapping Parents Action Group 360.1
Wapping Police Station 974
War memorials 082 War memorials – Bethnal Green 082.3 War memorials – Poplar 082.2 War memorials – Stepney 082.1
War savings 336
Warehouses (Port of London) 966 Warehouses in Tower Hamlets 966.2
Wash houses 611 Wash houses – Bethnal Green 611.3 Wash houses – Poplar 611.2 Wash houses – Stepney 611.1
Waste paper recycling 610.1
Water companies 612.2
Water pollution 612.3
Water supply 612
Watermen sellers 612
Watney Street Market 652.10
Weavers Field School 823.1
Weavers’ houses and Weaving 680.2
Weightlifting 798.5
Wellington Primary School 820.2
Wells 612.1
Welsh Calvinists Churches in Bethnal Green 226.3 Welsh Calvinists Churches in Poplar 224.3 Welsh Calvinists Churches in Stepney 222.3
West India Docks 964.3
Whalebone manufactures 680.12
Wharves (Port of London) 966 Wharves in Tower Hamlets 966.1
Wheler Chapel 221.96
Whitebait dinners 390.2
Whitechapel 022
Whitechapel Craft School 821.1
Whitechapel Foundation School 820.1
Whitechapel Hay Market 652.12
Whitechapel Library 850.11
Whitechapel Mission 222.3
Whitechapel Murders 341
Whitechapel Road Market 652.15
Whitechapel Sports Centre 797
Whites Row, Spitalfields, Independent Chapel 222.4
Wick Lane Library 850.25
Wilfred Reeve Day Centre 620.3
Wills 120 Wills – Bethnal Green 120.3 Wills – Poplar 120.2 Wills – Stepney 120.1
Wilmot Street School 820.3
Wine industry 670.3
Witchcraft 200.1
Women, social role and status 305.4
Women’s Liberation Movement and Suffrage 320.6
Women’s Voluntary Service 330.17
Wool manufacture 680.5
Woolmore Primary School 820.2
Work conditions 332.2
Workers’ circle 367.1
Workhouses 335.1
World Trade Centre 650
World Wars 080
Wrestling 797.3
Wycliffe Congregational Church (Philpot Street) 222.4 YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association) 240 YMCA – Bethnal Gren 240.3 YMCA – Poplar 240.2 YMCA – Stepney 240.1
Youth clubs 360 Youth clubs – Bethnal Green 360.3 Youth clubs – Poplar 360.2 Youth clubs – Stepney 360.1
Youth groups 361
Youth parliament 320
Youth services and training schemes 361
Zoar Chapel (Great Alie Street) 222.2
Zoology 590