Click on the links below to find extracts from the Whitechapel Stories booklet:

(1) Whitechapel Gallery, a hotspot for creative contemporary art

(2) St Mary Matfelon, the original ‘White Chapel’

(3) Royal London Hospital, old and new

(4) Whitechapel Station, a vital transport hub

(5) Whitechapel Idea Store: for library, learning, information

(6) Genesis Cinema, an evolution from the Paragon Music Hall

(7) Esha’ Atul Islam Masjid, one of our local mosques

(8) Wimpy at Watney Market

(9) The zig-zag staircase on Sidney Street (John’s Place Estate)

(10) Archaeological excavations on Sidney Street revealed the Red Lion playhouse and Roman remains

(11) Basil and Rose Henriques, Jewish settlement founders

(12) William and Catherine Booth, founders of the Salvation Army

(13) Raymond Tabi, a champion heavyweight boxer born in Whitechapel

(14) Eva Luckes and Annie Brewster, a remarkable matron and nurse

(15) Frank Creber, the mural artist, paintbrush in hand

(16) Rudolf Rocker, anarchist and the worker’s friend

(17) Mala Sen, equality activist and housing campaigner

(18) Hyman Rinkoff, founder of a Jewish family bakery

(19) Max Levitas, communist councillor, buying a newspaper from Alan Mehmet at Sidney Street News

(20) Jack Cohen: from a childhood in Ashfield Street to the founder of Tesco

(21) Clare Dorber, head of art and design at Stepney All Saints School, as drawn by her students

(22) Hyman Walter flies his kite in Sidney Street in 1899

(23) Memories of covid lockdowns: hands clapping for the NHS

(24) War-time Whitechapel, imagined in a painting by Rose Henriques

(25) Doscovering an unexploded bomb in Clark Street in 1989

(26) The Siege of Sidney Street in 1911

(27) Anti-racism protests in the 1970s

(28) George from the InCommon group walks his dog in the park

(29) A horse pulling a brewers’ dray loaded with barrels

(30) A Jewish menorah candelabra, lit for Hanukkah

(31) Life sciences research at the Blizard Institute

(32) Hop-picking on the annual family holiday

(33) Bell founding and ropemaking, two longstanding East End trades

(34) A Catholic procession from St Mary & St Michael’s Church

(35) The Irish community, represented by a fiddle player and a road worker

(36) A Cockney sparrow perched in the trees of Sidney Square

(37) The No 25 Bus: as a toy held by the little boy

(38) Fruit and vegetables at Whitechapel and Watney Markets

(39) Garment making and selling in Whitechapel, the heart of the Rag Trade

(4) A market trolley, inspired by reminiscences at Sonali Gardens

Making Sense of the Mural

Faithful Foundations