Before the Backstreet: from 1922 to 1954

Mile End Road, seen from where the bridge now stands, looking east towards Bow Road.

An enlarged detail from the same picture, showing the Vogue Cinema on the corner of Burdett Road. The cinema was bombed during World War II. Part of the vacant lot is now the Backstreet

Mile End Road runs along the top of the image, with Burdett Road on the left. The area now occupied by the Backstreet, once part of the

The entrance of the La Boheme ball rooms, which became Benjy

The dining hall, taken from what is now the back of the club. The far end of the room in the photograph is now the entrance to the Backstreet.

The cinema stood on the corner of Mile End Road and Burdett Road. It was bombed in World War II.

The site of the Vogue Cinema, which is now the Backstreet

The area is now separated from Burdett Road by billboards.

This wider shot of Burdett Road shows the empty space once occupied by the cinema. The structure in the middle of Burdett Road is the entrance to the public toilets.

A similar view of Burdett Road as it is today.