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View from the top floor flat over the barn like dining area at the back of the soup kitchen. Benches were set out in rows for people to sit down & eat |
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The view into the 'In' entrance of the kitchen from Brune Street |
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View from inside towards the 'In' door. 'Customers' would enter and turn to their left for processing before eating in the shed at the back |
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The top floor flat had a glass roof just like a Huguenot weaver's attic workshop |
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Top floor flat view out of the big window |
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View from top floor flat looking into Brune Street. The three people in the street are filming an edition of BBC's 'Heir Hunters' |
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On my 1923 map of London Brune Street is named
Butler Street - click on map left to see and enlarge. Maybe the road was renamed after the War?
A 1932 article in the Jewish Chronicle announces:
Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor
(established 1854), 17 - 19 Butler Street, Spitalfields E1
The Committee
have pleasure in announcing that the kitchen will be opened for
the ensuing Winter season by I.M. Sieff esq on Monday December
5th 1932 at 5.15pm, and they cordially invite all subscribers
and friends to be present on that occasion. The
distribution of food will take place on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Wednesdays and Thursdays from 5pm until 7pm throughout the whole
Winter season. This food consists of soup and bread on
each of these evenings and Kosher margarine and sardines on
alternative evenings. In addition, pilchard and an extra
portion of bread are given on Thursdays to help the poor over
the weekend. The soup kitchen is the only centre
distributing food to the Jewish poor nightly during the week
(except on Sabbath and Sunday). Unfortunately the number
having recourse to the kitchen has shown a steady increase in
the last five years. Last season food was given for over
4000 nightly, and indications for the coming Winter give every
evidence of a further increase. A donation of £5 15s will
entitle the donor to a special distribution in his or her name
to mark some special event. The Committee feel sure that
the Community will agree that supplying food and sustenance to
our poorer co-religionists, which has been done by this
institution for 78 years, must not cease, and they look forward
with confidence to continued support.
Donations and
subscriptions will be very thankfully received by: Samuel
Samuel esq. D.L. M.P. President, Berkley House, Hay Hill,
Berkeley Square W1. Gustav Tuck esq, Treasurer, 33 Upper
Hamilton Terrace, NW8. Colonel Frederick D Samuel DSO Hon
Secretary, W1. Any member of the committee, or the
secretary Mr J H Taylor B.A. at the Soup Kitchen.
The Brune Sreet (Butler Street) Kitchen opened in
Leman Street in 1854 and relocated to Butler Street (now Brune
Street) in 1902. In the 1950s it was still regularly
feeding 1500 clients. When the premises closed in 1992 to merge
with Jewish Care in Beaumont Grove it still had some 100 elderly
clients on its books.
Below is my 1994 photo of the Brune Street Soup
Kitchen, taken when the premises were derelict
