View from street HALF A CENTURY AGO The exact occasion pictured here is not known, though it is obviously before 1900. The Clarendon Hotel now stands on the site of the Phoenix Hotel and the General Post Office on the vacant ground shown above. The lamps in the street are oil lamps. Ref: Centenary Executive Committee, 1948. East London Centenary 1848 - 1948 Official Souvenir Brochure. F Howe, East London: pg 65. Submitted by William MARTINSON Photographer: Unidentified

Postcard of Oxford Street showing Phoenix Hotel on the left by G.B. & Co. but published locally in a booklet of twelve choice views by W.E. Courtney. Circa 1909 Posted on Artefacts FB page courtesy of Mark Finnigan Photographer: Unidentified