All Contributions from amymilnesmith
Sundays at Toynbee Hall, 1896
Toynbee Hall | amymilnesmith
A selection from: Henry Walker, East London. I : Whitechapel, Sketches of Christian work and workers. Published by the Religi...
12 Dock Street, Dr. Barnardo's Shelter
10-14 Dock Street | amymilnesmith
This was the site of Dr Barnardo's Shelter for women and infants in the nineteenth century. A few Toynbee Hall residents in their inve...
Red Lion and Spread Eagle Pub
94 Whitechapel High Street | amymilnesmith
This pub existed from aproximately 1839 to 1921 according to the Post Office Directory, belonging to multiple owners (male and female)...
Whitechapel High Street in 1861
Whitechapel High Street | amymilnesmith
John Hollingshead, Ragged London in 1861, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1861. "There are many different degrees of ...
The (other) Whitechapel Murder: 16 Batty Street
Greater Whitechapel | amymilnesmith
In the 1880s Batty Street was considered part of Whitechapel in the public imagination. Perhaps no better proof of this is in the fact...
Lodging house & the bombing of the Tower 1885
30 Prescot Street | amymilnesmith
"This is a quiet thoroughfare leading out of Leman-sreet, and the houses are chiefly tenanted by business people and lodging-house kee...
George Yard Buildings
Sunley House | amymilnesmith
After a round of slum clearances, a model lodging house was built around 1875 in George Yard on the site of New Court and a former tim...
Site of Goulston Street Graffiti
Arcadia Court, formerly 90 to 222 Wentworth Dwellings | amymilnesmith
During the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888, one of the few pieces of evidence was discovered in the doorway of the Wentworth Dwellings...
