This building is at the bottom end of White Post Lane. It's a two storey (Victorian) brick building with a black & white mosaic sign at the top.
The last 4 letters of the sign are ------LLES.
Anyone got any idea?
PS: Anonymous (below) added the following amazing links for us to read more about this intriguing building:
4 comments:
This was the first Dry Cleaners in the UK. Archille Serre.
see this http://www.laundryandcleaningnews.com/story.asp?sectionCode=58&storyCode=2038957
and
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/archaeologists-seize-unique-opportunity-to-discover-ancient-secrets-under-olympic-site-475761.html
I have just got a photo from Hackney Archives of this building in its hey day.
Wow!!
Thank you anonymous!! Excellent detective work going on here!
Thanks for telling us all about this building, it's been bugging us for years!
If you have time - please have a look through some of the other entries - you may be able to help us out on some other questions.
But thanks for this gem & the links!
Sóna
sona
its me Toby 150 just did not have time to sign up.
Please send me a mail to
de@holbeach7.wanadoo.co.uk for more info
also see this for another great HW photo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisdb1/3316050573/
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