Today’s Whitechapel is buzzy, ... Once docks had been built in the 19th century – linked to the City via Commercial Road – a wide variety of industries moved in, ...

Whitechapel's buildings often wear their history in plain sight. ... Above is shown Bucks Row Board School, one of many towering school blocks built in the latter decades of the 19th century.

She would be frightened to go out alone after dark in 19th-century Whitechapel, she said, but had no plans to change her real-life walk to school.

London blogger Katie Wignall shares five interesting historical finds in Whitechapel ... nineteenth century but they only got around to installing it in 2009. It shows the sixteenth-century ...