I walked down Stepney Green this morning, thinking (correctly) that it would look good in the morning autumn sun, including number 37, the local Manor House, originally built in 1690 for Dormer Shepherd, an East India Company sea captain, then owned by Mary Gayer, and by the Council after the war:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
Is that Hay Lane? I’ve not visited Stepney for quite some time but Hay Lane was an intereting secret enclave. There are the original blue tiles on the ground and I think it was a route for carriages. Some of the gardens along there used to have very exotic fruits and vegetables growing – cucumbers, squashes and gourds etc. Lovely photos.
Hayfield Passage – one of the snickets off the Mile End Road into the old seventeenth-century village green.