John Oram's photos with the keyword: Shoreditch High Street

The Tea Building framed by the bridge which carries the London Overground to and from Shoreditch High Street station. The Tea Building in Shoreditch High Street was built between 1931 and 1933 as a bacon factory for Lipton and Allied Foods and was later used for processing and packing tea. It has been converted to a centre for media and creative industry with studio spaces, bars and eating places. 200_2_P1020782M

The Tea Building framed by the bridge which carries the London Overground to and from Shoreditch High Street station. The Tea Building in Shoreditch High Street was built between 1931 and 1933 as a bacon factory for Lipton and Allied Foods and was later used for processing and packing tea. It has been converted to a centre for media and creative industry with studio spaces, bars and eating places. 200_2_P1020782

The Tea Building framed by the bridge which carries the London Overground to and from Shoreditch High Street station. The Tea Building in Shoreditch High Street was built between 1931 and 1933 as a bacon factory for Lipton and Allied Foods and was later used for processing and packing tea. It has been converted to a centre for media and creative industry with studio spaces, bars and eating places. 200_2_P1020780CM

The Tea Building framed by the bridge which carries the London Overground to and from Shoreditch High Street station. The Tea Building in Shoreditch High Street was built between 1931 and 1933 as a bacon factory for Lipton and Allied Foods and was later used for processing and packing tea. It has been converted to a centre for media and creative industry with studio spaces, bars and eating places. 200_2_P1020780C

The architecture of Shoreditch High Street station could perhaps be described as 'modern brutalist' although I would like to think that brutalism had been left behind. Although the London Overground could be described using some positive adjectives, this building is shockingly and avoidably unattractive. The contrast with the former Hackney station (1870, previous picture) is stark. I do not know what was in the minds of the planners. It is probably a blessing that some lines of sight are softened by, of all things, Boxpark, a pop-up mall. 200_2_P1020789C