| 1 |
George
Bernard Shaw was an early member of the Fabian Society who regularly met on the Whitechapel Road. |
| 2 |
William
Booth started The Christian Mission and then The Salvation Army on the Mile End Road. |
| 3 |
Captain James Cook lived at 88 Mile End Road when not at sea. |
| 4 |
Prince
Monolulu was a gambling tipster who frequented Petticoat
Lane and Mile End Market with his famous call “I ‘ave an ‘orse!” |
| 5 |
Frederick
Charrington turned his back on his family’s brewery
to start a temperance mission. He is here depicted taking a dray horse out of service. |
| 6 |
Dockers – this is loosely based on the statue Dockers at Victoria Dock. |
| 7 |
Vladimir Lenin planned the Russian Revolution in Whitechapel. |
| 8 |
Joseph
Merrick also known as The Elephant Man was first
publicly exhibited in London in a shop on the Whitechapel Road across the street from the London Hospital. |
| 9 |
T V Edwards started the law firm T V Edwards in 1929. |
| 10 |
Anthony
Edwards is the senior partner of T V Edwards. As a young
boy he would accompany his uncle on his rounds, carrying his briefcase. |
| 11 |
Bushra
Nasir studied at Queen Mary University and became the first
Muslim headteacher of a state school. |
| 12 |
Mahatma
Ghandi stayed at Kingsley Hall in 1931 when he came to London to discuss Indian independence. |
| 13 |
Her
Majesty Queen Elizabeth II visited the Whitechapel Bell Foundry
in 2009. |
| 14 |
Samuel
Pepys frequented the Mile End Road, as his famous diary attests and his mother was the daughter of a Whitechapel butcher. |
| 15 |
Isaac
Rosenberg was a First World War poet and a painter who was
one of a group of artists known as The Whitechapel Boys. |
| 16 |
Mark Gertler was a painter and also one of The Whitechapel Boys. |
| 17 |
Edith
Cavell trained as a nurse at London Hospital before working
in German-occupied Belgium during World War I. |
| 18 |
Reggie
and Ronnie Kray were gangsters and night club owners who frequented The Blind Beggar public house. |
| 19 |
David
Hockney is a painter who has his first exhibition at The
Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1970. |
|
20 |
Scout.
David Hockney famously had two dachshunds but this is actually my dog. |
|
21 |
Eric
Gill’s relief sculptures grace the New People’s
Palace on the Mile End Road. |
22 |
Gilbert
and George are two artists who work together as a collaborative
duo and live in nearby Spitalfields. |
23 |
Market stalls that line the Mile End Road. |
24 |
A reference to London’s docks. |
25 |
30 St Mary Axe also known as the Gherkin. |
26 |
Christ Church, Spitalfields designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor. |
27 |
House,
by Rachel Whiteread was a cast of the inside of a house on Grove Road. |
28 |
The East London Mosque. |
29 |
Clock tower from in front of The People’s Palace. |
30 |
The Royal London Hospital. |
31 |
Guernica
by Pablo Picasso was first displayed outside of continental Europe at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1939. |
32 |
The Whitechapel Art Gallery. |
33 |
Blooms, a famous kosher restaurant on Whitechapel Road. |
34 |
The Whitechapel Church Bell Foundry. |
35 |
Trinity Almshouses, Mile End Road. |
36 |
The first V1 flying bomb or Doodlebug fell in Whitechapel in 1944. |