Histories of Whitechapel
Welcome to the Survey of London’s Whitechapel project, where you can share and explore the many histories of Whitechapel’s buildings and places.
On our map you’ll find information about every building in Whitechapel in 2016, including photographs, stories and research, film clips and audio recordings added by historians, local people and others with an interest in the area. It will grow in content gradually until 2018, a collaborative work in progress made up of the Survey’s own research alongside material that you and everyone else contributes.
This is an experiment in the making of the history of a place. Sharing our knowledge and experiences will help us to understand the histories of buildings, streets and neighbourhoods, and through them the lives of the people of Whitechapel. To start exploring, go to the map and click on a building to see content about that site, or you can explore buildings related to a particular historical period or theme.
If you have any information, research, images, or memories of Whitechapel, you can sign up and start contributing them here.
Building of the Month
Former Jagonari Women's Centre, 183-185 Whitechapel Road
We don't know much about this building yet. Can you tell us something about its history?
Latest Submissions
Gower's Walk, looking north, c.1980
Chandlery House, 40 Gower's Walk | stephen | Oct. 17, 2017
Great-great grandparents lived in Wagner's Buildings [on the west side of Gower's Walk] in 1861 - census sheet is ...
Lambeth Street c.1980
55 to 112 Times Square | stephen | Oct. 17, 2017
Lambeth Street was totally demolished with the elevated railway goods yard and has now disappeared entirely.
Quick Contribution
Browsing the Map
If you're not sure about how to get started, we've made a short video to give you a quick overview.
Explore Whitechapel
Not sure where to begin? Click on a theme to start uncovering Whitechapel's past. Sites are being tagged if they connect with certain overlapping aspects of Whitechapel's history, according to the thematic categories identified here.
