EPW055309 ENGLAND (1937). Whitechapel High Street and environs, Whitechapel, from the south-west, 1937. This image has been produced from a copy-negative.

The London Hospital Medical College, founded 1785; the first medical school in England and Wales adjoining a hospital. See: https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/the-royal-london-our-history/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_London_Hospital

Joseph Stalin stayed here for 2 weeks in 1907 while attending the fifth conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Rowton House, Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, an 816 bed hostel for poor and working class men opened in August 1902. Costing six pence per night, facilities included a dining room, reading room, smoking room, wash rooms, barber's shop, shoemaker's and tailor's rooms. Accommodation was in private cubicles containing a bed, chair, shelf and chamber pot. Established by Lord Rowton in 1892, there were eventually 7 in London, this was the fifth, plus another in Birmingham. See https://www.workhouses.org.uk/RowtonWhitechapel/

The Royal London Hospital

Commercial Road Goods Depot (LTSR). Opened: 17th April 1886 Closed: 3rd July 1967

Gardiner's Department Store

Saint Mary Matfelon Church which was destroyed during The Blitz in 1940. The ruins were finally demolished in 1952 and the site of the church was known as "St Mary's Park" until it was renamed "Altab Ali Park" in 1998. The outline of the church is all that remains of it.

Brick Lane, E1

Whitechapel Road, E1

Commercial Road, E1

Commercial Street, E1