Royal London Hospital, Old and New

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The Royal London Hospital, a world-renowned teaching hospital, has been serving East London for over 270 years. Originally based on Prescot Street as the London Infirmary – for “the merchant seaman and manufacturing classes” – it moved to Whitechapel Road in 1757 and has been a local landmark ever since.

A postcard view of the London Hospital, Whitechapel Road

The London Hospital shortly after it had opened, with the Whitechapel Mount to the right-hand side

The modern-day Royal London Hospital rises on the Whitechapel skyline

The Neuron Pod forms part of the Blizard Institute, a hub for lifesciences research in Whitechapel