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 Religiou…
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 invest…
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) i…
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 so…
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 t…
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 keepe…
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 timbe…
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 o…
