I accidentally caused a bit of a stir among certain sections of the Victorian East End local history scene when I tweeted a low-res version of the photo below. I’ve now obtained a better-quality scan of this 1895 shot of Dorset Street, Whitechapel, taken by a not-well-known photographer, William H Groves, for an even-less-well-known periodical — the short-lived New Budget, a general interest magazine that featured photographs and reports from all over Great Britain.

East End historian Paul Begg alerted me to the photograph’s rarity and apparent significance, which prompted me to obtain this better version. (Though it has to be said, the original paper of the magazine hasn’t aged well, so this image isn’t of triffic quality, either.)

Massive thanks to the US Library of Congress, who supplied me with this scan. Y’all are heroes.

Groves also shot this pub, which may (or may not) be the one that stood on the corner of Dorset Street and Crispin Street, which was called (with no trace of irony) The Horn of Plenty.

 US Library of Congress