Coventry Cross Estate is a social housing estate in Bromley-by-Bow.
History[]
The name Coventry Cross dates back to a public house by that name. Local historians have suggested that the name may have originated with a pre-Reformation cross belonging to a local convent, and that the name was corrupted over time to "Coventry Cross".[1]
178 flats were built by the London County Council, on the east side of St Leonard's Road, opening in 1935.[2]
As well as the main block called Coventry Cross, there were three smaller blocks, Fuller, Philips and Tennant Houses. Flats in these smaller blocks originally did not have individual bathrooms, but each three flats shared one, along with an area for washing clothes.[3]