The Anonymous Widower

The Crossrail Cambridge Heath Site At Whitechapel

As the pictures of the delivery showed, the Whitechapel station site is extremely crowded. Luckily, the major occupier of the area, is a large Sainsburys supermarket, which seems to have been rebuilt, as I remember using it around the turn of the millennium and it was all massive surface car parks, which have now seemed to have gone. This Google Earth image shows the area from the supermarket to the Whitechapel Road.

Whitechapel Station, Crossrail And Sainsburys

The Sainsburys is large and it has a multi-story car park, which stretches across the picture.

Note the big hole to the South of the supermarket, which is thirty-two metres deep and is Crossrail’s Cambridge Heath shaft to provide emergency access and ventilation to the Crossrail tunnels. Read more about the shaft and the other works at Whitechapel station in this page on Crossrail’s web site. This is all you can see from outside the site.

The Crossrail Cambridge Heath Site At Whitechapel

I was standing in Cambridge Heath Road, which is the road on the right of the image, which goes past the site and Sainsburys.

All this site used to be the Mann, Crossman and Paulin brewery,of which the only remains are the ornamental gates and the Blind Beggar public house. The latter is marked on the map and is notorious for its association with gang violence of the 1960s.

I wonder what the customers of those days, would make of the area now!

April 8, 2015 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Construction, Crossrail, Whitechapel Station