The anonymous street ran 90-degrees to Whitechapel Road, with a slight bend about halfway along. The
Victorian property developer may have wanted to make his housing estate
more interesting; more likely, the street followed the line of a medieval track
or the edge of an ancient field. Sowerbutt and his two companions neither knew nor would
have cared that Roman centurions camped centuries earlier near where
they were walking. In years to come, two 3rd century Roman coins would be found across the street in the mud of a bomb
site where council flats were being erected.
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