Survey of London

All Contributions from David Charnick

Local tour guide and sessional tutor teaching East End tour guiding through Tower Hamlets Idea Store Learning.

A contributor to the East London Observer of 2 July 1859 - submitting under the name of A Christian - reported an impromptu vis…

Whitechapel station is actually two stations, one above the other. The original, nowadays the Overground platforms, opened in 1876 when …

I was in Dock Street this morning (25 August) leading a tour. I can confirm that this building has now been demolished. I didn't think t…

In his Notes on Life and Letters of 1921, the author and former merchant seaman Joseph Conrad reflects on his experiences of th…

The Working Lads’ Institute was founded in 1878 by a city merchant called Henry Hill. It was one of many nineteenth-century initiatives …

The former Bricklayers' Arms. Until some time in the 1880s the address was given as 20 Gloucester Street. As it was not marked on Ordnan…

To supply the major rebuilding campaign following the Great Fire of London in September 1666, timber was imported from the great pine fo…

The Danish consulate (r) was established by Georg Wolff at his business address, 20-21 Wellclose Square. A timber merchant, Wolff became co…

This is the Royal Brunswick Theatre, which collapsed during a performance shortly after opening in 1828. On its site was erected the Brunsw…

This is the Whitechapel High Street frontage of the George Yard Mission and Ragged School as depicted in Henry Walker's 'East London: Sketc…

This is the Dock Street frontage to the Sailors' Home (formerly Brunswick Maritime Establishment) as featured in Henry Walker's East London…