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The Underground Map   
Added: 20 Sep 2020 13:01 GMT   

Pepys starts diary
On 1 January 1659, Samuel Pepys started his famous daily diary and maintained it for ten years. The diary has become perhaps the most extensive source of information on this critical period of English history. Pepys never considered that his diary would be read by others. The original diary consisted of six volumes written in Shelton shorthand, which he had learned as an undergraduate on scholarship at Magdalene College, Cambridge. This shorthand was introduced in 1626, and was the same system Isaac Newton used when writing.

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Tricia   
Added: 27 Apr 2021 12:05 GMT   

St George in the East Church
This Church was opened in 1729, designed by Hawksmore. Inside destroyed by incendrie bomb 16th April 1941. Rebuilt inside and finished in 1964. The building remained open most of the time in a temporary prefab.

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Christine D Elliott   
Added: 11 Jun 2023 14:50 GMT   

Spitalfields
Charles Blutte came to Spitalfields from Walincourt, Picardie, France for reason of religious persecution. His brother Pierre Phillippe Blutte followed the following year. Between the two brothers they had eventually 20 children, they worked as silk weavers around the Brick Lane area. Member’s of Pierre’s family resided at 40 Thomas Street for over 100 years. Another residence associated with the Blutte family is Vine Court, Lamb Street, Spitalfields, number 16,17 & 18 Vine Court was owned by John Kindon, the father in law of Charles Blutte’s son Jean (John) who married Ann Kindon. This residence appears several times in the census records.

Source: Quarto_52_Vol_LII_La_Providence

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Katharina Logan   
Added: 9 Aug 2022 19:01 GMT   

Ely place existed in name in 1857
On 7th July 1857 John James Chase and Mary Ann Weekes were married at St John the Baptist Hoxton, he of full age and she a minor. Both parties list their place of residence as Ely Place, yet according to other information, this street was not named until 1861. He was a bricklayer, she had no occupation listed, but both were literate and able to sign their names on their marriage certificate.

Source: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSF7-Q9Y7?cc=3734475

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Graham O’Connell   
Added: 10 Apr 2021 10:24 GMT   

Lloyd & Sons, Tin Box Manufacturers (1859 - 1982)
A Lloyd & Sons occupied the wharf (now known as Lloyds Wharf, Mill Street) from the mid 19th Century to the late 20th Century. Best known for making tin boxes they also produced a range of things from petrol canisters to collecting tins. They won a notorious libel case in 1915 when a local councillor criticised the working conditions which, in fairness, weren’t great. There was a major fire here in 1929 but the company survived at least until 1982 and probably a year or two after that.

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Marion James   
Added: 12 Mar 2021 17:43 GMT   

26 Edith Street Haggerston
On Monday 11th October 1880 Charlotte Alice Haynes was born at 26 Edith Street Haggerston the home address of her parents her father Francis Haynes a Gilder by trade and her mother Charlotte Alice Haynes and her two older siblings Francis & George who all welcomed the new born baby girl into the world as they lived in part of the small Victorian terraced house which was shared by another family had an outlook view onto the world of the Imperial Gas Works site - a very grey drab reality of the life they were living as an East End working class family - 26 Edith Street no longer stands in 2021 - the small rundown polluted terrace houses of Edith Street are long since gone along with the Gas Companies buildings to be replaced with green open parkland that is popular in 21st century by the trendy residents of today - Charlotte Alice Haynes (1880-1973) is the wife of my Great Grand Uncle Henry Pickett (1878-1930) As I research my family history I slowly begin to understand the life my descendants had to live and the hardships that they went through to survive - London is my home and there are many areas of this great city I find many of my descendants living working and dying in - I am yet to find the golden chalice! But in all truthfulness my family history is so much more than hobby its an understanding of who I am as I gather their stories. Did Charlotte Alice Pickett nee Haynes go on to live a wonderful life - no I do not think so as she became a widow in 1930 worked in a canteen and never remarried living her life in and around Haggerston & Hackney until her death in 1973 with her final resting place at Manor Park Cemetery - I think Charlotte most likely excepted her lot in life like many women from her day, having been born in the Victorian era where the woman had less choice and standing in society, which is a sad state of affairs - So I will endeavour to write about Charlotte and the many other women in my family history to give them the voice of a life they so richly deserve to be recorded !

Edith Street was well situated for the new public transport of two railway stations in 1880 :- Haggerston Railway Station opened in 1867 & Cambridge Heath Railway Station opened in 1872


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Beverly Sand   
Added: 3 Apr 2021 17:19 GMT   

Havering Street, E1
My mother was born at 48 Havering Street. That house no longer exists. It disappeared from the map by 1950. Family name Schneider, mother Ray and father Joe. Joe’s parents lived just up the road at 311 Cable Street

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jack stevens   
Added: 26 Sep 2021 13:38 GMT   

Mothers birth place
Number 5 Whites Row which was built in around 1736 and still standing was the premises my now 93 year old mother was born in, her name at birth was Hilda Evelyne Shaw,

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margaret clark   
Added: 15 Oct 2021 22:23 GMT   

Margaret’s address when she married in 1938
^, Josepine House, Stepney is the address of my mother on her marriage certificate 1938. Her name was Margaret Irene Clark. Her father Basil Clark was a warehouse grocer.

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Boo Horton    
Added: 31 May 2021 13:39 GMT   

Angel & Trumpet, Stepney Green
The Angel & Trumpet Public House in Stepney Green was run by my ancestors in the 1930’s. Unfortunately, it was a victim on WWII and was badly damaged and subsequently demolished. I have one photograph that I believe to bethe pub, but it doesn’t show much more that my Great Aunt cleaning the steps.

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Mike Levy   
Added: 19 Sep 2023 18:10 GMT   

Bombing of Arbour Square in the Blitz
On the night of September 7, 1940. Hyman Lubosky (age 35), his wife Fay (or Fanny)(age 32) and their son Martin (age 17 months) died at 11 Arbour Square. They are buried together in Rainham Jewish Cemetery. Their grave stones read: "Killed by enemy action"

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Added: 6 Nov 2021 15:03 GMT   

Old Nichol Street, E2
Information about my grandfather’s tobacconist shop

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Added: 15 Jan 2023 09:49 GMT   

The Bombing of Nant Street WW2
My uncle with his young son and baby daughter were killed in the bombing of Nant Street in WW2. His wife had gone to be with her mother whilst the bombing of the area was taking place, and so survived. Cannot imagine how she felt when she returned to see her home flattened and to be told of the death of her husband and children.


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Admin   
Added: 26 Aug 2022 15:19 GMT   

Bus makes a leap
A number 78 double-decker bus driven by Albert Gunter was forced to jump an accidentally opening Tower Bridge.

He was awarded a £10 bonus.

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Steven Shepherd   
Added: 4 Feb 2021 14:20 GMT   

Our House
I and my three brothers were born at 178 Pitfield Street. All of my Mothers Family (ADAMS) Lived in the area. There was an area behind the house where the Hoxton Stall holders would keep the barrows. The house was classed as a slum but was a large house with a basement. The basement had 2 rooms that must have been unchanged for many years it contained a ’copper’ used to boil and clean clothes and bedlinen and a large ’range’ a cast iron coal/log fired oven. Coal was delivered through a ’coal hole’ in the street which dropped through to the basement. The front of the house used to be a shop but unused while we lived there. I have many more happy memories of the house too many to put here.

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Eileen   
Added: 10 Nov 2023 09:42 GMT   

Brecknock Road Pleating Company
My great grandparents ran the Brecknock Road pleating Company around 1910 to 1920 and my Grandmother worked there as a pleater until she was 16. I should like to know more about this. I know they had a beautiful Victorian house in Islington as I have photos of it & of them in their garden.

Source: Family history

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Added: 6 Nov 2023 16:59 GMT   

061123
Why do Thames Water not collect the 15 . Three meter lengths of blue plastic fencing, and old pipes etc. They left here for the last TWO Years, these cause an obstruction,as they halfway lying in the road,as no footpath down this road, and the cars going and exiting the park are getting damaged, also the public are in Grave Danger when trying to avoid your rubbish and the danger of your fences.

Source: Squirrels Lane. Buckhurst Hill, Essex. IG9. I want some action ,now, not Excuses.MK.

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Christian   
Added: 31 Oct 2023 10:34 GMT   

Cornwall Road, W11
Photo shows William Richard Hoare’s chemist shop at 121 Cornwall Road.

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Vik   
Added: 30 Oct 2023 18:48 GMT   

Old pub sign from the Rising Sun
Hi I have no connection to the area except that for the last 30+ years we’ve had an old pub sign hanging on our kitchen wall from the Rising Sun, Stanwell, which I believe was / is on the Oaks Rd. Happy to upload a photo if anyone can tell me how or where to do that!

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Phillip Martin   
Added: 16 Oct 2023 06:25 GMT   

16 Ashburnham Road
On 15 October 1874 George Frederick Martin was born in 16 Ashburnham Road Greenwich to George Henry Martin, a painter, and Mary Martin, formerly Southern.

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Christine Bithrey   
Added: 15 Oct 2023 15:20 GMT   

The Hollies (1860 - 1900)
I lived in Holly Park Estate from 1969 I was 8 years old when we moved in until I left to get married, my mother still lives there now 84. I am wondering if there was ever a cemetery within The Hollies? And if so where? Was it near to the Blythwood Road end or much nearer to the old Methodist Church which is still standing although rather old looking. We spent most of our childhood playing along the old dis-used railway that run directly along Blythwood Road and opposite Holly Park Estate - top end which is where we live/ed. We now walk my mothers dog there twice a day. An elderly gentleman once told me when I was a child that there used to be a cemetery but I am not sure if he was trying to scare us children! I only thought about this recently when walking past the old Methodist Church and seeing the flag stone in the side of the wall with the inscription of when it was built late 1880

If anyone has any answers please email me [email protected]

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Chris hutchison   
Added: 15 Oct 2023 03:04 GMT   

35 broadhurst gardens.
35 Broadhurst gardens was owned by famous opera singer Mr Herman “Simmy”Simberg. He had transformed it into a film and recording complex.
There was a film and animation studio on the ground floor. The recording facilities were on the next two floors.
I arrived in London from Australia in 1966 and worked in the studio as the tea boy and trainee recording engineer from Christmas 1966 for one year. The facility was leased by an American advertising company called Moreno Films. Mr Simbergs company Vox Humana used the studio for their own projects as well. I worked for both of them. I was so lucky. The manager was another wonderful gentleman called Jack Price who went on to create numerous songs for many famous singers of the day and also assisted the careers of Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff. “Simmy” let me live in the bedsit,upper right hand window. Jack was also busy with projects with The Troggs,Bill Wyman,Peter Frampton. We did some great sessions with Manfred Mann and Alan Price. The Cream did some demos but that was before my time. We did lots of voice over work. Warren Mitchell and Ronnie Corbett were favourites. I went back in 1978 and “Simmy “ had removed all of the studio and it was now his home. His lounge room was still our studio in my minds eye!!


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Sue L   
Added: 13 Oct 2023 17:21 GMT   

Duffield Street, Battersea
I’ve been looking for ages for a photo of Duffield Street without any luck.
My mother and grandfather lived there during the war. It was the first property he was able to buy but sadly after only a few months they were bombed out. My mother told the story that one night they were aware of a train stopping above them in the embankment. It was full of soldiers who threw out cigarettes and sweets at about four in the morning. They were returning from Dunkirk though of course my mother had no idea at the time. I have heard the same story from a different source too.

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Hubert Ashton House, E1 Hubert Ashton House is a block on Varden Street.
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James Voller Way, E1 A street within the E1 postcode
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John Harrison House, E1 John Harrison House is a block on Varden Street.
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Leigh House, E1 Leigh House is a block on Halcrow Street.
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Luke House, E1 Luke House is located on Tillman Street.
Luntley Place, E1 Luntley Place appears on the 1862 Stanford map.
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Manous House, E1 Manous House is a block on Hessel Street.
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Marden House, E1 Marden House is located on Batty Street.
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Maryann Street, E1 Maryann Street existed from the 1810s until after the Second World War.
Matilda Street, Matilda Street is an old East End street.
Mellish House, E1 Mellish House is a block on Varden Street.
Melwood House, E1 Melwood House is a block on Watney Street.
Meranti House, E1 Meranti House can be found on Goodman’s Stile.
Milward Street, E1 Milward Street is a road in the E1 postcode area
Mitali Passage, E1 A street within the E1 postcode
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Monthope Road, E1 This is a street in the E1 postcode area
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Moss Close, E1 A street within the E1 postcode
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Mulberry Street, E1 Mulberry Street is a road in the E1 postcode area
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Myrdle Court, E1 Myrdle Court is a block on Myrdle Street.
Myrdle Street, E1 Myrdle Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Nelson Street, E1 Nelson Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Neroli House, E1 Neroli House is a building on Piazza Walk.
New Drum Street, E1 A street within the E1 postcode
New Loom House, E1 New Loom House is a block on Back Church Lane.
New Road, E1 New Road is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Newark Street, E1 Newark Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Nijjer House, E1 Nijjer House is a block on Commercial Road.
Norton House, E1 Norton House is a block on Cannon Street Road.
Nottingham Place, E1 Nottingham Place is an old East End street.
Novem House, E1 Novem House is a block on Chicksand Street.
Odeon Court, E1 Odeon Court is a block on Chicksand Street.
Old Montague Street, E1 Old Montague Street is a thoroughfare running east-west from Baker’s Row (now Vallance Road) to Brick Lane.
Old Pump House, E1 Old Pump House is a block on Hooper Street.
Osborn Place, E1 Osborn Place appears on maps between 1800 and 1900.
Osborn Street, E1 Osborn Street is a short road leading from Whitechapel Road to the crossroads with Brick Lane, Wentworth Street and Old Montague Street.
Osborne House, E1 Osborne House is a block on Osborn Street.
Oxford Street, Green Street was renamed to Oxford Street, E1 in 1867.
Pace Place, E1 Pace Place is a road in the E1 postcode area
Painter House, E1 Painter House is a block on Sidney Street.
Parfett Street, E1 Parfett Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Patriot House, E1 Patriot House is a block on Hessel Street.
Pauline House, E1 Pauline House is a block on Old Montague Street.
Pavilion House, E1 Pavilion House is a block on Greatorex Street.
Penine House, E1 Penine House is a block on Camperdown Street.
Perilla House, E1 Perilla House is a building on Bridle Mews.
Peter Best House, E1 Peter Best House can be found on Nelson Street.
Philchurch Place, E1 Philchurch Place is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Philchurch Street, E1 Philchurch Street, which disappeared after the Second World War, was originally Philip Street.
Philpot Street, E1 Philpot Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Piazza Walk, E1 Piazza Walk is a location in London.
Pimento House, E1 Pimento House is located on Gower’s Walk.
Planet Street, Star Street, Commercial Road East was called Planet Street after 1891.
Plumbers Row, E1 Plumbers Row is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Ponler Street, E1 Ponler Street is a road in the E1 postcode area
Porchester House, E1 Porchester House is sited on Varden Street.
Prince of Orange Court, E1 Prince of Orange Court was a former street in the area.
Proud House, E1 Proud House is a block on Amazon Street.
Providence Street, Providence Street is an old East End street.
Queen’s Place, E1 Queen’s Place seems to have been a victim of the London Blitz.
Ramar House, E1 Ramar House is a building on Hanbury Street.
Rampart Street, E1 Rampart Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Raven Row, E1 Raven Row is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Regal Close, E1 Regal Close is a road in the E1 postcode area
Richard Street, E1 Richard Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Riga Mews, E1 A street within the E1 postcode
River Thames at 51.501, High Street, E1 was renamed as Great Garden Street, E1 in 1874.
Rix Court, E1 Rix Court was replaced by a wool warehouse sometime during the twentieth century.
Romford Street, E1 Romford Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Rope Walk Gardens, E1 Rope Walk Gardens is a location in London.
Ropewalk Gardens, EC1M Ropewalk Gardens is a location in London.
Ruby House, E1 Ruby House is located on Myrdle Street.
Rupert Street, E1 Rupert Street was situated to the east of Leman Street.
Russell Street, E1 Little Russell Street became Russell Street in 1864 (7996).
Rutland Street, New Rutland Street was given the name Rutland Street, E1 in 1864.
Samuel Street, Samuel Street is an old East End street.
Sander Street, E1 Sander Street ran from Back Church Lane to Berner Street (Henriques Street).
Satin House, E1 Satin House is a block on Canter Way.
Settles Street, E1 Settles Street links Fieldgate Street with Commercial Road.
Shead Court, E1 Shead Court is a block on James Voller Way.
Sheridan Street, John Street was given the name Sheridan Street, E1 in 1864.
Siege House, E1 Siege House is a block on Sidney Street.
Silvester House, E1 Silvester House can be found on Varden Street.
Sly Street, E1 Sly Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Somerset House, E1 Somerset House is a block on New Road.
South Tenter Street, E1 South Tenter Street is a road in the E1 postcode area
Spelman House, E1 Spelman House is a block on Spelman Street.
Spelman Street, E1 Spelman Street was formerly John Street and built up in the 19th century.
Spencer Street, E1 Spencer Street ran east-west north of Shadwell station.
Spencer Way, E1 A street within the E1 postcode
Splidts Street, E1 Splidts Street was formerly Splidts Terrace and before that, Cain’s Place.
Spring Walk, E1 Spring Walk is a road in the E1 postcode area
St Mark Street, E1 St Mark Street was built on the old Goodman’s Fields.
St Marks Street, St Marks Street is an old East End street.
St Mary Street, St Mary Street is an old East End street.
St Philip’s House, E1 St Philip’s House is located on Stepney Way.
Stable Walk, E1 Stable Walk is a location in London.
Star Street, E1 Star Street was, for a while, Planet Street.
Stepney Green Court, E1 Stepney Green Court is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Stutfield Street, E1 Stutfield Street has existed since the early nineteenth century.
Sugar House, E1 Sugar House is a block on Leman Street.
Suntash Apartments, E1 Suntash Apartments can be found on Umberston Street.
Tate Apartments, E1 Tate Apartments is a block on Sly Street.
Tenter Street East, Tenter Street East is an old East End street.
The Old Montague Apartments, E1 The Old Montague Apartments is a block on Old Montague Street.
Tillman Street, E1 A street within the E1 postcode
Tilman Street, Tilman Street is an old East End street.
Timberland Road, E1 Timberland Road is a road in the E1 postcode area
Tower House, E1 Tower House is a block on Fieldgate Street.
Tulip Street, E1 Tulip Street is an old East End street.
Turner Street, E1 Turner Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Turnour House, E1 Turnour House is a block on Walburgh Street.
Tylney House, E1 Tylney House is located on Nelson Street.
Umberston Street, E1 Umberston Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Universal House, E1 Universal House is a block on Wentworth Street.
Upper Fenton Street, Upper Fenton Street is an old East End street.
Varden Street, E1 Varden Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
Vibeca Apartments, E1 Vibeca Apartments is a block on Chicksand Street.
Vine Court, E1 Vine Court is a small turning south from Whitechapel Road.
Walburgh Street, E1 A street within the E1 postcode
Walden Street, E1 Walden Street is a road in the E1 postcode area
Watney Market, E1 A street within the E1 postcode
Watney Street, E1 Watney Street is the location for a famed East End street market.
Welstead House, E1 Welstead House is a block on Cannon Street Road.
White Church Lane, E1 White Church Lane is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.
White Church Passage, E1 A street within the E1 postcode
Whitechapel Market, E1 Whitechapel Market is a road in the E1 postcode area
Whitechapel Road, E1 Whitechapel Road is a major arterial road in East London.
Whitechapel Technology Centre, E1 Whitechapel Technology Centre is based in the East London Works.
Wicker Street, E1 Wicker Street is a road in the E1 postcode area
Wilton Court, E1 Wilton Court is a block on Cavell Street.
Winterton House, E1 Winterton House is a block on Deancross Street.
Winterton Street, E1 In Stepney E1, Devonshire Street became Winterton Street in 1890.
Wiverton Tower, E1 Wiverton Tower is a block on New Drum Street.
Wodeham Gardens, E1 Wodeham Gardens is a road in the E1 postcode area
Wood’s Buildings, E1 Wood’s Buildings, a narrow passageway, extended north from Whitechapel Road and led to Winthrop Street.
Wool House, E1 Wool House is a building on Back Church Lane.
Workhouse Apartments, E1 Workhouse Apartments is a block on Feather Mews.
Wynfrid House, E1 Wynfrid House is a block on Mulberry Street.

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Whitechapel

Whitechapel is a neighbourhood whose heart is Whitechapel Road itself, named for a small chapel of ease dedicated to St Mary.

By the late 1500s Whitechapel and the surrounding area had started becoming 'other half' of London. Located downwind of the genteel sections of west London which were to see the expansion of Westminster Abbey and construction of Buckingham Palace, it naturally attracted the more fragrant activities of the city, particularly tanneries, breweries, foundries (including the Whitechapel Bell Foundry which later cast Philadelphia's Liberty Bell and also Big Ben), slaughterhouses and, close by to the south, the gigantic Billingsgate fish market, famous in its day for the ornately foul language of the extremely Cockney fishwomen who worked there.

Population shifts from rural areas to London from the 1600s to the mid 1800s resulted in great numbers of more or less destitute people taking up residence amidst the industries and mercantile interests that had attracted them. By the 1840s Whitechapel, along with the enclaves of Wapping, Aldgate, Bethnal Green, Mile End, Limehouse and Stepney (collectively known today as the East End), had evolved, or devolved, into classic 'dickensian' London. Whitechapel Road itself was not particularly squalid through most of this period - it was the warren of small dark streets branching from it that contained the greatest suffering, filth and danger, especially Dorset St., Thrawl St., Berners St. (renamed Henriques St.), Wentworth St. and others.

In the Victorian era the base population of poor English country stock was swelled by immigrants from all over, particularly Irish and Jewish. 1888 saw the depredations of the Whitechapel Murderer, later known as 'Jack the Ripper'. In 1902, American author Jack London, looking to write a counterpart to Jacob Riis's seminal book How the Other Half Lives, donned ragged clothes and boarded in Whitechapel, detailing his experiences in The People of the Abyss. Riis had recently documented the astoundingly bad conditions in the leading city of the United States. Jack London, a socialist, thought it worthwhile to explore conditions in the leading city of the nation that had created modern capitalism. He concluded that English poverty was far rougher than the American variety. The juxtaposition of the poverty, homelessness, exploitive work conditions, prostitution, and infant mortality of Whitechapel and other East End locales with some of the greatest personal wealth the world has ever seen made it a focal point for leftist reformers of all kinds, from George Bernard Shaw, whose Fabian Society met regularly in Whitechapel, to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who boarded and led rallies in Whitechapel during his exile from Russia.

Whitechapel remained poor (and colourful) through the first half of the 20th Century, though somewhat less desperately so. It suffered great damage in the V2 German rocket attacks and the Blitz of World War II. Since then, Whitechapel has lost its notoriety, though it is still thoroughly working class. The Bangladeshis are the most visible migrant group there today and it is home to many aspiring artists and shoestring entrepreneurs.

Since the 1970s, Whitechapel and other nearby parts of East London have figured prominently in London's art scene. Probably the most prominent art venue is the Whitechapel Art Gallery, founded in 1901 and long an outpost of high culture in a poor neighbourhood. As the neighbourhood has gentrified, it has gained citywide, and even international, visibility and support.

Whitechapel, is a London Underground and London Overground station, on Whitechapel Road was opened in 1876 by the East London Railway on a line connecting Liverpool Street station in the City of London with destinations south of the River Thames. The station site was expanded in 1884, and again in 1902, to accommodate the services of the Metropolitan District Railway, a predecessor of the London Underground. The London Overground section of the station was closed between 2007 and 27 April 2010 for rebuilding, initially reopening for a preview service on 27 April 2010 with the full service starting on 23 May 2010.


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Buxton Street art, Spitalfields
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Battle of Cable Street mural The Battle of Cable Street took place on the corner of Cable Street and Dock Street, and other places
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A view east along Whitechapel Road including the Pavilion Theatre. The Pavilion was the first major theatre to open in the East End. It opened in 1827 and closed in 1935.
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St Mary’s (Whitechapel) station (1916) This existed between 1884 and 1938 between Aldgate East and Whitechapel.
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Brady Street looking toward the junction with Durward Street, 1979.
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Buxton Street art, Spitalfields
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Cable Street, E1 in the early years of the twentieth century
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Cannon Street Road in the early 1940s
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Victoria and Albert Cottages take the form of two ranges of modest two-storey houses built along Deal Street, Spitalfields between 1857 and 1865
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Buck's Row (Durward Street) in 1938.
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Hanbury Street c.1918, looking east
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