London A-Z pre 1980

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silverfoxcc
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London A-Z pre 1980

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Has anyone got a copy of any pre 1980 London A-Z,( further back the better)

Chap on another forum is asking if there was a Fryatt road in the Stratford area that ceased to exist during the 2012 Olympic site
It is said it was named after Captain Fryatt of the GER steamship company who was executed by the Germans in WW1

If anyone could put up an image that i could forward onto him , be most grateful

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I have a 1970s A1 London street by street. There is one Fryatt Road listed but it’s in Tottenham.
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There is also a Fryatt Street listed at the location below which is reasnably close by that has disappeared under redevelopment but seemingly not olympics related.
https://goo.gl/maps/5QtLhVgKZyj7LGtw9
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RichardA35 wrote: Fri Jul 29, 2022 09:03 There is also a Fryatt Street listed at the location below which is reasnably close by that has disappeared under redevelopment but seemingly not olympics related.
https://goo.gl/maps/5QtLhVgKZyj7LGtw9
This is the information I have for that particular Fryatt Street
Fryatt Street, Orchard Place E14
[1939-c1993] (N8) {62} <G65>
Duke Street west off Orchard Place and laid out about 1845
was renamed Fryatt Street 4/07/1938 w.e.f. 1/01/1939 SN
8015.
Captain Charles Algernon Fryatt (1872-1916) was master
of the railway mail steamer SS “Brussels” during the first
war. When sailing to Rotterdam 28/03/1915 he steered his
steamer straight into the path of a German submarine, which escaped by diving.
The following year the “Brussels” was
captured by a German torpedo-boat flotilla and taken to
Zeebrugge. Captain Fryatt was tried and shot 27/07/1916 by
the Germans for breaking the rules of war. There is a bronze
medallion commemorating Captain Fryatt on the forecourt
of Liverpool Street Station, EC2.
Fryatt Street was halved in length in the 1930s as the river
end was closed to allow a tug repair works to be built along
the river edge. A site survey in preparation for the renaming
in 1938 recorded that all the houses had been demolished to
be replaced by vacant land.
By the 1990s the street was being engulfed by the adjacent
works and the name ceased to appear on the OS maps. The
majority of the sites either side of the north arm of Orchard
Place had been cleared by 2008. The street line of Fryatt
Street can just be discerned on air photos in 2011 but for all
practical purposes it has ceased to exist.
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Walking distance from us.

It was a short access street to Crown Wharf on the River Lea, just north of its junction with the Thames. Confusion likely, because there was another Crown Wharf not much further up the Lea, in Stratford, and one can envisage them getting mixed up. Both have disappeared in recent separate redevelopments.

Captain Fryatt's story was very well known. His ship "Brussels" was actually owned by the Great Eastern railway company, running from Harwich to Europe, a railway from Liverpool Street station and with their huge engineering shops at Stratford, hence the connections. There are various honorifics to him around, such as a pub with his name in Harwich, and I recall something in Liverpool Street station from a while ago. Quite why an obscure side street in Docklands, Duke Street (as it was), unconnected with the railway in all senses, should be renamed after him is not apparent, possibly he once lived there, or had some connection with shipping from the end of the street. It would be nice if developers Ballymore, who have recently built all over the peninsula, would put up a plaque about him at the location.
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WHBM wrote: Fri Jul 29, 2022 15:04 Captain Fryatt's story was very well known. His ship "Brussels" was actually owned by the Great Eastern railway company, running from Harwich to Europe, a railway from Liverpool Street station and with their huge engineering shops at Stratford, hence the connections. There are various honorifics to him around, such as a pub with his name in Harwich, and I recall something in Liverpool Street station from a while ago. Quite why an obscure side street in Docklands, Duke Street (as it was), unconnected with the railway in all senses, should be renamed after him is not apparent, possibly he once lived there, or had some connection with shipping from the end of the street. It would be nice if developers Ballymore, who have recently built all over the peninsula, would put up a plaque about him at the location.
It was something of a cause celebre at the time , a U-Boat tried to sink his ship with torpedoes while running on the surface so he attempted to ram it causing the U-Boat to dive. When he was captured later in the war he was tried and shot as a terrorist , apparently as a merchant seaman he was not entitled to defend his ship.

The German Press release was as follows
NOTICE. The English captain of a merchant ship, Charles Fryatt, of Southampton, though he did not belong to the armed forces of the enemy, attempted on March 28th, 1915, to destroy a German submarine by running it down. For this he has been condemned to death by judgment this day of the Field Court Martial of the Naval Corps, and has been executed. A ruthless deed has thus been avenged, belatedly but just. Signed VON SCHRÖDER, Admiral Commandant of the Naval Corps, Bruges, July 27th, 1916.
This made superb propaganda for the British and American press.
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