1-198-962 - From the Jewish Chronicle Archive/Heritage Images

Georgian shops in Artillery Lane, East End, London, 1912. View looking towards Artillery Passage, showing shops believed to date from c1757. No 56 was originally owned by a mercer, and between 1813 and 1935 was a grocer's. No 58 also began as a mercers but later became a cigar merchant's. The newsagents-grocer's shop on the corner of Artillery Passage is displaying a placard about the Titanic disaster less than a week before. In the brickwork above the door is an inset notice: (Pure) Milk 4d Qurt (sic) Twice daily from the (S)hed; a vestige of the dairy which occupied the site until 1894. Between 1881 and 1914, two million Jews left Eastern Europe, fleeing poverty and persecution. Some 150,000 settled in England, many living in the East End, near the docks where their ships had arrived.