Tower Hamlets Local History Library Subject Guide – 5Th Edition 2021

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Tower Hamlets

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5th Edition | 2021

Tower Hamlets Local History Library Subject Guide – 5th Edition 2021

Abattoirs 640.1

Abbeys 210.1

Abolition of slavery 326

Abortion 622.4

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

African-Caribbean people 490

African peoples 490

Agriculture 630

AIDS 610.2

Air pollution 610.3

Air raid precautions 347

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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

Altab Ali protests, 1978 300.2

Ambulance services 624.2

Anarchism 320.7

Ancient Order of Britons 366.6

Ancient Order of Druids 366.2

Ancient Order of Foresters 366.4

Angling 797.11

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Animal Clinics 631.3

Anthropology 590

Anti-nuclear protests 346.1

Antiquities 570

Anti-racism 300.2

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

Army Reserve 345.1

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

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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

Astrology 200.1

Astronomy 520

Athletics 797.7

Athletics in schools 825

Atley Road School 820.2

Audits (Public) 356

August Project 360

Authors (local) 870

Autobiographies 100

Avenues Unlimited 360

Awards and Decorations – civil 300.1 Awards and Decorations – military 345.4

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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

Banglatown 023

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

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Beating the Bounds 390.1

Beatrice Tate School 823

Beaumont Institution 830.1

Bedford Institute Association 240

Beekeeping 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

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Bethnal Green Methodist Church (Approach Road) 226.3

Bethnal Green Military Hospital 621.3

Bethnal Green Museum 851

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

Bibles 261

Billiards 798.1

Billingsgate Fish Market (West India Docks) 652.20

Bingo 798.6

Biographies 100 Biographies of maritime figures 902

Biology 590

Bird sanctuaries 590

Birds 631.1

Birdwatching 799.4

Birth control 622.4

Birth rates 310

Birth registers 120

Bisexual people 306

Bishop Challoner Catholic School (Christian Street) 820.1

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Bishoprics 215

Bishopsgate Goods Yard 385.2

Black Lives Matter 300.2

Black people 490

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

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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

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Bow Road Presbyterian Church 224.5

Bow School (Fairfield Road) 820.2

Bow Trains (Bow Church) 385.2

Bowbrook School 820.2

Bowling 797.6

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

Brexit 320.9

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

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British National Party (BNP) 320.5

British Red Cross Society 624.1

British Sailors Society 365.1

British Street School 820.2

British National Party (BNP) 320.5

British Union of Fascists 320.5

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 Road) 222.4

Brush manufacture 680.15

Buckle Street Jews Infant School 820.1

Buddhism 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

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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

By-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

Cambridge Heath 041

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

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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

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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

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China manufacture 680.1

Chinese people 410

Chisenhale Road School 820.3

Choirs 780.3

Cholera 610.2

Choral societies 780.3

Chrisp Street Library (Idea Store Chrisp Street) 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 Church of England 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 issues 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

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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

Civil war (Spanish) 345

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Claimants Educational Trust and unions 330.13

Clay pipe manufacture 680.15

Clean Up Association 330.7

Clothes – home economics 640.5 Clothes – 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

Collecting hobbies 799.10

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

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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

Communion 280.1

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

Computer games 798.6

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 Congregational religious life 230.4

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

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Consulates 320

Contraception 622.4

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

Coronavirus 610.2

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

COVID-19 610.2

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

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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 036

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

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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 345.4

Delinquency 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

Dictionaries 870

Dingle Lane School 820.2

Directories 051 Directories – Bethnal Green 051.3

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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 outside Tower Hamlets 965 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

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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

Eastbourne House 240.3

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 – acts and orders 990.1 East India Company – biographies 995 East India Company – history 991 East India Company – in Asia 994 East India Company – in Poplar 991.1 East India Company – letters and minutes 990.2

East India Dock Basin Bird Sanctuary 590

East Indiamen 997

East India Docks 964.2

East London 015

East London Animal Aid 360.1

East London Children’s Moral Welfare Committee 622.5

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East London Church Fund 240

East London Claimants Union 330.13

East London Community Organisation (TELCO) 360

East London Federation of Suffragettes (ELFS) 320.6

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

Easter 280.2

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

Eid 280.2

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Eisteddfods 780.4

Elections 321

Electoral registers 110

Electrical goods manufacture 680.15

Electricity supply 383.1

Elim Baptist Chapel (Pekin Street) 224.2

Embassies 320

Emancipation 326

Embroidery 740.2

Emigration 322

Employment 332 Employment, hours and conditions 332.2 Employment committees and exchanges 332.1

Engineering 690

English Civil War 345

English Martyrs Church 222.6

English Martyrs Roman Catholic Primary School 820.1

Engraving 760

Entertainments – Municipal 791 Entertainments – Public 792

Environmentalism 320.8

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

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Essex Road School 820.1

Etching 760

Ethics and ethical societies 200.2

Ethnic groups 400

Ethnology 590

European parliament – elections 321.6

Euroscepticism 320.9

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

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Farrance Street Schools (Burdett Road) 820.1

Fascism 320.5

Fasting (religious practice) 280.2

Fats industry 670.4

Fawcett Library 850

Feminism 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

Fishing 797.11

Fish Island 031

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Flag days 390.4

Floods 530 Floods – Thames 977.1

Flora 580

Flour mills 670.5

Flower shows 630.1

Fluoride 612.5

Flying 797.9

Folk dancing 793.3

Folk songs 780.1

Folklore 392

Folktales 392.1

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

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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

Gangs 342

Gardening 630.1

Gardening in schools 810.3

Gas supply 383.2

Gay men 306

General works 090

General strike, 1926 333

Genealogy 880.1

Geography 050

Geology 550

George Green Centre 830

George Green’s School 820.2

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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

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

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Great Assembly Hall 222.13

Great Eastern Railway 385.2

Greater London Authority (GLA) 355

Greater London Council (GLC) 355 GLC – education authority 800.2 GLC – elections 321.4 GLC – housing 331.3

Greenland Dock 965.3

Greenwich Foot Tunnel 389.5

Green Coat School 820.3

Green Party 320.8

Greenwich Railway 385.5

Grenfell School (Myrdle Road) 823.2

Grime 780.2

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 Wick 015

Hackney College Poplar Centre 821.2

Hague Primary School 820.3

Hale Street Wesleyan School 820.2

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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 and safety at work 600.5

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

Higher education 830

Highwaymen 342

Hindusim 230.11

Hobbies 799

Hockey 797.13

Holiday homes and hostels (outside Tower Hamlets) 365.4

Holy Child School 820.2

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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

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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

Housekeeping 640.2

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

India Office 996

Indians 440

Indoor activities 798

Industrial accidents 600.5

Industrial archaeology 660

Industrial estates 660

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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 relations 327

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

Islam 230.14

Islamic religious associations 240.1

Isle of Dogs 036

Isle of Dogs Community Foundation 360.2

Isle of Dogs Market 652.25

Italians 490

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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

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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 – biographies 100 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

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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 disabilities 620.4 Learning disabilities – schools 823.2

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

LGBTQ+ people 306

Liberal Democrats 320.3

Liberalism 320.3

Liberal party 320.3

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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

Lists of personal names 110

Literary societies 830 Literary societies – Bethnal Green 830.3

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Literary societies – Poplar 830.2 Literary societies – Stepney 830.1

Literature (local authors or subjects) 870

Literary criticism 870.1

Lithography 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 Borough of Tower Hamlets council 354.4

London Buddhist Centre 226.13

London Burkers 341

London Chest Hospital 621.31

London City Mission 270.2

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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

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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

Maritime art 910

Maritime history 900

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

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Matchgirls Strike, 1888 333

Match making 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 Officer’s annual reports – Bethnal Green 610.03 Medical Officer’s annual reports – Poplar 610.02 Medical Officer’s annual reports – Stepney 610.01

Medical profession 624

Medicine 620 Medicine – manufacture of 670.6

Medland Hall Congregational Church (Ratcliff) 222.4

Memorials 120

Mental health 620.2

Merchant ships 905

Meteorology 530

Methodism 230.3 Methodist Churches in Bethnal Green 226.3 Methodist Churches in Poplar 224.3 Methodist Churches in Stepney 224.3

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Methylated spirit drinking 200.3

Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green council 354.3

Metropolitan Borough of Poplar council 354.2

Metropolitan Borough of Stepney council 354.1

Metropolitan District and Metropolitan Railway 385.4

Midmay Mission Hospital 621.33

Midmay Mission to the Jews (Philpot Street) 222.7

Migrants 400

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

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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

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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

Mysticism 200.1

Nathaniel Heckford School 823

National Front 320.5

National Insurance 332.3

National Library for Women 850

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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

Newspapers 890

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 Road) 224.4

North London Railway 385.2

Notable passing events 060

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

Occultism 200.1

Oddfellows 366.3

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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

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Online learning 810.6

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 224.13

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

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Painting trade 690.2

Pakistanis 440

Palaeontology 560

Pandemics 610.2

Paper manufacture 680.9

Parapsychology 200.1

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

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People’s Palace Theatre 795.1

Periodicals 890

Pest control 610.5

Petrology 550

Pets 631

Petticoat Lane Market 652.1

Pewter manufacture 680.4

Philosophy and ethics 200

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

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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 services 340.1

Police stations 340.2

Police voluntary organisations 340.3

Political associations and political parties 320

Poll tax 356

Pollution 610.3

Pool 798.1

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

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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 Rebellion, 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

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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

Privateering 912

Probation work 342.5

Processions 390.5

Processions – religious 280.4

Property sales 720

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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 610.6

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

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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 400

Race riots 300.2

Racism 300.2

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

Ramadan 280.2

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

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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 Road) 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

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Religious customs 280

Religious festivals 280.2

Religious intolerance 300.2

Religious life 230

Religious music 781

Religious plays 280.3

Religious prejudice 300.2

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

Revolts 333

Rich Mix Centre 851

Rifle Shooting 797.12

Riots 333 Riots – involving far right parties 320.5

River buses 975.1

River Lee 980 River Lee – Acts and order 980.1

River Thames 970 River Thames – Acts and orders 970.1 River Thames – Bridges 972 River Thames – Drainage 977.3 River Thames – Floods, tides, barrage schemes 977.1 River Thames – Frosts 977.2 River Thames – Geography 977.4

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River Thames – History and description 971 River Thames – History and description 971 River Thames – Physical 977 River Thames – Pollution 977.5 River Thames – River services 975 River Thames – Thames livery companies 976 River Thames – Thames Police 974 River Thames – Tunnels 973

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

Rolls of honour 082

Roma 490

Roman Road Library 850.32

Roman Road Market – Bethnal Green 652.33

Roman Road Market – Bow 652.2

Roman Road Primary School 820.2

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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 Antediluvian Society of Buffaloes 366.5

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

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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 Street/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 Street) 820.1

St. Anthony 225.15

St. Augustine 221.14

St. Barnabas (Grove Road) 225.13

St. Barnabas (Whitechapel) 221.34

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St. Bartholomew 225.3

St. Benet 221.30

St. Bernard’s School (St. Matthew’s Road) 820.3

St. Boniface German Chapel (Adler Street) 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

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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 (Ratcliff) 221.12

St. James the Great 225.2

St. James the Less 225.5

St. John (Golding Street) 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 Street) 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 Street) 221.10

St. Joseph’s School (Gun Street) 820.1

St. Jude (Old Bethnal Green Road) 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

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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 Road) 820.1

St. Luke’s School (West Ferry Road) 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 Street) 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

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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 Street) 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

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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 Street) 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

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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 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

Sea voyages 911

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

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Seven Mills Primary School 820.2

Sewage 610.1

Sewardstone Primary School 820.3

Sewing 342.3

Sex workers 342.3

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

Shipping lines and companies 903

Shipwright’s Day 390.4

Shoe manufacture 680.11

Shoeblack Brigade 652.40

Shooting 797.12

Shop signs 651.3

Shops 651.2

Shoreditch 015

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

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Sidney Street, Siege of 341

Signs manufacture 680.15

Sikh temples in Poplar 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

Slaughterhouses 640.1

Slavery 326

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

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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 Asian peoples 440

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

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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

Steamboats 907

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

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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 renaming and renumbering 055

Street songs 780.1

Street trading 652.4

Strikes 333 Strikes – docks 937.2 Strikes – local government 357.2 Strikes – social workers 357.2 Strikes – teachers 800.4

Subways 389

Suffragettes 320.6

Sugar industries 670.9

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Suicide 342

Sunday Schools in Bethnal Green 226 Sunday Schools in Poplar 224 Sunday Schools in Stepney 222

Supermarkets 651.2

Supernatural 392.2

Surrey Commercial Docks 965.3

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 – Bethnal Green 226.7 Synagogues – Poplar 226.7 Synagogues – Stepney 222.7

Tabernacle (Stepney Green) 222.3

Tabletop games 798.3

Tailoring 680.8

Take-aways 655

Tapestries 740.2

Tar industry 670.2

Taverns 653

Tea industry 670.8

Teacher training centres 800.6

Teachers’ associations 800.4

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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 movement 200.3

Templars School 823.2

Tenants associations 331.5

Tent Street Misison 226.13

Territorial Army 345.1

Terrorism 342

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

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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 Bridge 388.3

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 First 320.7

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

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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

Tower Hill-Tooley Street subway 389.6

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

Trains 385

Trainspotting 399.4

Trams 386

Transgender people 306

Transport 384

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Travellers 331.1

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

UKIP 320.9

Umbrella manufacture 680.15

Unemployment 335.2

Unionists 320.2

Unitarian Churches in Stepney 222.10

United Methodist Church (Bruce Road) 224.3

Universities 830

University House 360.3

Upper North Street School 820.2

Urban Learning Foundation 800.6

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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

Video games 798.7

Vietnamese people 490

Vinegar industry 670.3

Virginia School 820.3

Vivisection 200.5

Voluntary Services 372 Voluntary Services – Bethnal Green 372.3 Voluntary Services – Poplar 372.2

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Voluntary Services – Stepney 372.1

Voters’ lists 110 Voters’ lists – Bethnal Green 110.3 Voters’ lists – Poplar 110.2 Voters’ lists – Stepney 110.1

V&A Museum of Childhood 851

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

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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 Gallery 750.1

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

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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 320.6

Women’s suffrage 320.6

Women’s Voluntary Service 330.17

Wood industry 690.3

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

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Youth clubs 360 Youth clubs – Bethnal Green 360.3 Youth clubs – Poplar 360.2 Youth clubs – Stepney 360.1

Youth groups 361

Youth offending 342.2

Youth organisations 363

Youth parliament 320

Youth services and training schemes 361

Zoar Chapel (Great Alie Street) 222.2

Zoology 590