Artichoke

Status: Closed and demolished
Address: 93 Cambridge Road, E1 (streetmap) (osm) (gmap) (bingmap) (streetview)
London borough: Tower Hamlets
Former name(s): Foresters
Artichoke
Former address: [now Cambridge Heath Road]
18 Cambridge Road (1856)
[also listed as 18 Giles Row (1861)]
Dog Row (1800)
Historical parish: Bethnal Green
Dates open: by 1800-at least 1915
rebuilt 1893 demolished c1964
Notes: Renamed as the "Foresters" in c1875, part of a music hall, though it is listed again in 1915 as the "Artichoke". Later converted to a cinema as the "Foresters" and "New Lyric" and "Foresters" again (it closed in 1960).
Sources: Open date: Archives
OS 1874/1896/1913
PO 1839 (as "Artichoke")/1856 (as "Artichoke")/1882 (as "Foresters' Music Hall")/1895 (as "Foresters")/1899 (as "Foresters")/1915 (as "Artichoke")
References: MS 11936/418/702712 (as "Artichoke")
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