The Metropolitan Borough of Stepney was a Metropolitan borough in the County of London created in 1900. In 1965 it became part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
The former Stepney Town Hall in Cable Street
A statue of Clement Attlee, mayor of Stepney (1919) and MP for Limehouse stands outside Limehouse Library.
Liberty of Norton Folgate
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Norton Folgate was a liberty in Middlesex, England; adjacent to the City of London in what would become the East End of London.
Looking south along Norton Folgate street in 2005. The Gherkin (30 St Mary Axe), left, and Tower 42, right, can be seen in the background.
Plaque on Norton Folgate Almshouses, opened 1860, listing ten trustees. The buildings replaced earlier almshouses of 1728, and stand in Puma Court (formerly Red Lion Court), on the east side of Commercial Street, and therefore outside the boundaries of the Liberty.