Although it was ‘but a poor and squalid passage, with little houses on one side and railway arches on the other’, Station Place was described in 1904 as the wickedest street in London. (Move over Dorset Street.)
Debs discovered a woman named Maria Harvey in the STGITE workhouse/infirmary who gave SP as a previous address and that inspired me to look more closely at the Place, which had been on the periphery of my interest for some time.
This report is interesting because it introduces us to the Noddings, a notorious family who ran at least one brothel in SP, and it concerns Sophia Raby, described as a daughter of the renowned Noddings
In the report it seems Sophe has had her marching orders from SP and is off to seek fresh fields and pastures new. And I think I know where, because a year or so later she was running a brothel at 1, Rich Street, Limehouse - said to be one of the most notorious in the district. And as we know, prior to Sophe’s incumbency, 1, Rich Street was in the hands of one Stephen Maywood, formerly of Breezers Hill.

Lloyds 30th October, 1892
Note: Station Place was actually in STGITE, but it was close to Shadwell Station and was often described as being in Shadwell.
Debs discovered a woman named Maria Harvey in the STGITE workhouse/infirmary who gave SP as a previous address and that inspired me to look more closely at the Place, which had been on the periphery of my interest for some time.
This report is interesting because it introduces us to the Noddings, a notorious family who ran at least one brothel in SP, and it concerns Sophia Raby, described as a daughter of the renowned Noddings
In the report it seems Sophe has had her marching orders from SP and is off to seek fresh fields and pastures new. And I think I know where, because a year or so later she was running a brothel at 1, Rich Street, Limehouse - said to be one of the most notorious in the district. And as we know, prior to Sophe’s incumbency, 1, Rich Street was in the hands of one Stephen Maywood, formerly of Breezers Hill.
Lloyds 30th October, 1892
Note: Station Place was actually in STGITE, but it was close to Shadwell Station and was often described as being in Shadwell.
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