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Treadway Street, E.2 - A Place to Go (Basil Dearden 1964)

22/2/2014

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The place that the Flint family goes to is the Minerva Estate, between Hackney Road and Old Bethnal Green Road. Ricky appears to be heading for Keeling House, Denys Lasdun's cluster block on Claredale Street, built 1957:
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unattributed photograph in Michael Webb, Architecture in Britain Today (1969)
But in fact his family's new home is a flat in Lysander House, part of the Minerva Estate:
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This is the back of Lysander House, overlooking Treadway Street and Hackney Road, with the gasworks beyond.

It is not so clear where they have moved from. Since they have to move because of slum clearance it wouldn't be surprising if this street no longer existed:
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The film says they live on Clare Street, but it cannot be the Clare Street that runs parallel to Cambridge Heath Road and the railway viaduct (to the right of the map above):
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Google Street View
The church on the street should be a clue, but I haven't found a church in the area, extant or demolished, that matches it:
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Suggestions here, please.


Other Bethnal Green locations in the film are much easier to identify, including the pub at which Ricky sings and outside of which his father demonstrates his escapology act:
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This is The Acorn, on the corner of Queensbridge Road and Whiston Road:
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FRANKIE HOSKYN
15/2/2018 05:28:18 am

THE STREET WITH THE CHURCH IN THE BACKGROUND IS APPLEBY STREET. THE CHURCH IS CALLED ST. CHAD'S

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26/1/2025 06:31:59 pm

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