All places tagged "poverty"

1 King's Arms Court

2007-9, housing association flats


16 Chicksand Street

1982-3, house, part of the Hopetown Estate, built by the GLC


90 Whitechapel High Street

1910-11 shop and offices, sometime site of Blooms restaurant, on site of entrance to Inkhorn Court


91 Whitechapel High Street

1861 shop, site of a 'penny gaff' in the 1850s, now a restaurant with flats over proposed


20-27 Wentworth Dwellings

1980s brown brick flats with shop units to ground floor, and school to Goulston Street. On site of Davis Mansions


The Relay Building, 1 Commercial Street

2008 and 2012-14, 23-storey offices, flats, shops and entrance to Aldgate East station. Entrance to social housing in Tyne Street


Calcutta House annexe, Old Castle Street

1932 former Brooke Bond welfare building, later part of London Metropolitan University


Arcadia Court, formerly 90 to 222 Wentworth Dwellings

1886 block of flats with shops at 30 to 50 Wentworth Street and 36 to 48 Goulston Street to ground floor


Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street

1938-9 theatre etc extension to Toynbee Hall, now used as performance studios, café etc, on site of St Jude's National Schools


The Dellow Centre

1992-4 accommodation for homelessness charity Providence Row


Universal House

1892-3 as Wildermuth House, a model lodging house, east part rebuilt in 1965-6

Gustav Wildermuth

Toynbee Hall

1880s Tudoresque settlement house with later additions, streetside building site of St Jude's vicarage


College East

1980s flats (dem. 2017) retained red-brick frontage of 1886 College Buildings (architect: Elijah Hoole), part of the Toynbee Hall estate


Sunley House

1976 brick-built flats on site of George Yard Buildings, later Balliol House/Charles Booth House. Demolished for Toynbee redevelopment 2016


101 Whitechapel High Street

1960 office building and former bank, on site of Tewkesbury Buildings


Nagpal House, site of George Yard Ragged School

2006-7 offices with flats above, on site of George Yard Ragged School


Whitechapel Gallery, 77–82 Whitechapel High Street

1898–1901 art gallery extended 1985 and 2009 when neighbouring library incorporated


Whitechapel Gallery, former Whitechapel Library

2009 extension to Whitechapel Gallery housed in former 1891-2 Passmore Edwards Library. Incorporates entrance to Aldgate East tube station

art gallery

Bradbury Court, 24 Old Castle Street

2013-14, five-storey block of flats, part of the Holland estate refurbishment and redevelopment


Victoria Court (Salvation Army Lifehouse), 177 Whitechapel Road

1995-6, Salvation Army hostel, rebuilding premises of the 1890s

'Salvation Army Bryant and May

Former Working Lads' Institute

1884-7, educational institution with shop, George Baines, architect, reduced in size 1899-1900, closed 1973, converted to flats in 1997

Primitive Methodists George Baines Henry Hill Frank A. Bevan Thomas Jackson

Swanlea Secondary School

1991-3, secondary school, on the site of Brady Street Dwellings and Brady Street Mansions


Fieldgate Mansions, Romford Street

1905-6 dwellings

Rowland Plumbe Davis Brothers

Tower House, 81 Fieldgate Street

1900–1902, Rowton House hostel, converted to flats


44 Gower's Walk

1994–5 three-storey Postmodern terraced house in red and stock brick, on site of Webb's Place


The Royal London Hospital

2007–12, 17-storey block for the Royal London Hospital, designed by HOK for Skanska.


Sapphire Court, 1 Ensign Street

c.1997-9, flats


Denning Point

1968 tower block of flats reclad, and ground floor street frontage altered, 2013-14


Vallance Gardens, Vallance Road

public garden, formerly Quakers' Burial Ground from 1687 to 1857, landscaped as a recreation ground 1879-80 and again in 2002-3


Greater Whitechapel: Hessel Street east side


Petticoat Lane Market

Street market since around 1760


Whitechapel High Street


78 Wentworth Street

1888–9, shophouse, home of the Salvation Army Slum Sisters until 1906